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I’m a big fan of free wireless Internet at airports.  Now I’m also a big fan of free wireless Internet on airplanes.

Especially these free in-flight Wi-Fi offers that have popped up recently:

This Saturday, October 31, 2009, Gogo Inflight Internet will be free on all Gogo-equipped Delta flights. To access the service use the code GOPINK.

It’s great that Delta passengers can spend Halloween using Gogo for free.

Even better: for each free session that day, Aircell (the company that brings us the Gogo service) will be donating $1 to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation, up to $10,000. They’re also going to give all Gogo proceeds from Delta’s Pink Plane for the month of October to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

It seems first timers might also be able to get free Wi-Fi on Delta through the end of the year with the code: deltatrygogo and on Airtran with airtrantrygogo. (Let me know if this works for you.)

But wait! There’s more:

From November 1 – 7, 2009, there will also be free Wi-Fi on Wi-Fi-equipped American Airlines flights, courtesy of the folks at LEXUS.  To access that service use the code: 2010LEXUSLS. ( No car purchase necessary.)

And one more: from November 10, 2009 all the way through the holidays and until January 10, 2010, you’ll get free Wi-Fi on Virgin America flights, courtesy of the folks at Google. Details about free Wi-Fi on Virgin America here.

Have you found some other free in-flight Wi-Fi offers? Let us know.

Categories: Free Stuff, Wi-Fi
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This looks fun:

Free Arranger, a collection of works by five contemporary visual artists is on display until January 2010 at Miami International Airport’s Central Terminal mia Gallery. That’s post-security on level 2 of Concourse E.

Pop-up Interior by Michelle Weinberg

“Artists Dimitry Saïd Chamy, Theresa Hackett, Judith Robertson, Michelle Weinberg and Elizabeth Cheatham Wild re-order, re-cycle, layer and create new sequences, re-arranging common, everyday items into something completely different.”

Have you seen some great art at an airport lately? Let us know!

Categories: Art, Exhibits
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From now through the end of December, 2009, the Center Gallery at Tucson International Airport (TUS) is featuring Lines.Space.Color, enamel paintings and sculpture by Tucson artist Steven Derks.

The exhibit includes two of Derks’ steel sculptures made of items he’s rescued from junkyards and scrap metal bins and Gridspace (below) made of 52 12” by 12” panels.

There’s plenty of other art around Tucson International Airport:  in addition to several other temporary exhibit spaces, the airport owns more than 40 permanent works by area artists.

To see what’s there – and what’s where - download one of the airport’s brand new art brochures.

Categories: Art, Exhibits
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What were those two Northwest pilots up to when they missed the turn-off for Minneapolis last week?

“Going over their schedules” on their laptop computers is the latest explanation.

I liked some of the other theories that were floating around better. Like the one about an alien abduction.  Now that would have been interesting.

But now that we know that the pilots had their laptops open, maybe these two just lost time surfing the web.  Perhaps they’d found their way over the Just for Kids section of San Diego International Airport Web site.

There’s a whole section of aviation-related activities there, including coloring pages, mazes, crossword puzzles,  riddles  (Why did the elephant take so long to get on the plane? He had to check his trunk),  and information about everything from aviation legends to space exploration.

Of special interest to the Northwest pilots, might be this page that details the codes pilots are supposed to use when communicating with the traffic control tower.

Categories: Air Travel, Airlines, Aviation history, Entertainment, Fun Stuff, Kids
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Kelowna International Airport (YLW) is a small(ish) airport in British Columbia, Canada that serves about one million passengers a year.   It’s about an hour from Vancouver, with a kid’s play area, some intriguing art and history exhibits and, starting November 1st, 2009, non-stop flights to Mexico.

To help spread the word, the airport is having a Dia de Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebration on Friday, October 30^th, from noon to 4 pm.

Everyone will get free parking and there will be door prizes that include $100 travel vouchers and airline tickets.  In a nice twist, local media outlets are participating in the airport’s Dia de Muertos altar competition and asking passengers to vote for their favorites with food donations for local food banks.  For more information, see the Kelowna Airport website.

Oh, and if you go to Kelowna, please keep an eye peeled for Ogopogo, a sea monster said to live in Lake Okanagan.

Categories: Art, Events, Festivals, Fun Stuff
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