What happens to all that stuff people “voluntarily surrender” at the airport checkpoints or leave behind in the airport?
At Vancouver International Airport, all that stuff ends up at the thrift store operated by the Airport Chaplaincy. Need a belt? Good chance you’ll one there.
Travelers needing to fuel up before hitting the road have a new option at Fort Lauderdale International Airport.
In addition to a branch of Seattle’s Best Coffee, the airport’s rental car center is now home to the Cuban Corner, serving high-octane Cuban coffee and authentic Cuban and Caribbean pastries, including Jamaican patties and empanadas, from 5 a.m. until 11 p.m.
The two coffee stands are just across the walking bridge from Terminal 1, so it’s not only convenient for rental car customers picking up or dropping off their vehicles, but also a good option for passengers of Southwest, United/Continental, Virgin America and AirTran – and a reminder that sometimes you need to leave the safety net of your gate and seek out options elsewhere in the airport.
According to Alan Gluck, Aviation Manager – Concessions for the Broward County Aviation Department, “Traditionally rental car center concessions at airports have not thrived, but this one is starting off like a rocket!”
Could be all those café con leches.
The pop-up piano phenomenon is spreading.
This summer Sing for Hope has sprinkled 88 artist-decorated pianos around New York City, including this one by William Conroy Lindsay at the Air Train Terminal.
Like the pianos around New York, anyone may sit down and play a tune on any of the painted pianos that have popped up in St. Paul, Minnesota.
That includes the piano at Minneapolis-St.Paul International Airport.
“The Jazz Masters Dojo,” painted by artist Jesse Golfis, is on the baggage claim level near the central escalators. Learn more about St. Paul’s Pianos on Parade project.
A new exhibition at the SFO Museum at San Francisco International Airport shows off scale models of propeller-driven transport aircraft used in the design, manufacturing and marketing process of the aviation industry in the late 1940s and 1950s.
According to the museum, these propliner models helped the airlines imagine the new airliner operating within their fleet and were used promote their services in airline offices and travel agencies.
This exhibition includes twenty-three models from the Collection of Anthony J. Lawler. “They represent the age of postwar propliners, which lasted until the 1960s when faster, more fuel-efficient and propeller-less turbojet airliners superseded them.”
Look for the propliners in the front cases of the Aviation Museum and Library in SFO’s International Terminal through December 2011.
You can also get a preview here.
Photos courtesy of SFO Museum
It’s Souvenir Sunday, the day we celebrate the fun, offbeat and inexpensive items you find yourself buying when you’re stuck at the airport.
This week’s souvenir comes to us courtesy of Michael Crockatt, who works at the Ottowa International Airport (YOW).
He spotted this cute hat at Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK)
A while back Michael sent us a photo of panda hats caps also spotted at PEK, so we’re glad he had a chance to go back for another visit.
If you find a great souvenir at the airport that’s inexpensive (about $10), “of” the city or region and, ideally, a bit offbeat, please snap a photo and send it along. If your photo is featured on Souvenir Sunday, I’ll send you a travel related souvenir as a thank-you.
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