I don’t smoke cigars and I probably would have been scared to smuggle it back to Seattle from Vancouver, but if they weren’t so darn expensive, I’d have bought a Cuban cigar there at the liquor store (yes, they have one, right next to North America’s only in-airport 7-Eleven store) at Vancouver International Airport.
The first Airspace Lounge opens today, May 7, 2011 on Concourse D at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport.
It’s the first in what may be a line of new all-access airport lounges around the country.
Memberships will be available; daily passes will start at $17.50.
Included will be food, snacks, coffee, tea, soft drinks, wireless internet, plenty of power outlets and the use of MacBooks and Windows PCs. Drinks from the bar will be extra.
That all sounds pretty straightforward.
But here’s an interesting twist: while the basic rate for a day pass will be $17.50, the price of the pass “will rise from time to time to prevent overcrowding.”
“A customer who spends $17.50 and walks into an overcrowded lounge that is more chaotic than the concourse would probably not return to an Airspace Lounge; we want to prevent that from happening,” said Anthony Tangorra, chief executive officer of Airspace Lounge.
Rather than simply turn people away, the price of a day pass will fluctuate, increasing up to perhaps $40 during busy periods.
“Our day pass price will be on prominent display via LCD signage outside of the lounge,” said Tangorra.
I’m getting to like the Reno-Tahoe International Airport more and more.
Passenger amenities there include free Wi-Fi, free local and toll-free calls, gaming machines in the lobby and on the concourses, art exhibits and a growing menagerie of taxidermy animals.
Last year, a 400-pound black bear showed up on Concourse B.
Now the airport has added a display of three Bighorn Sheep species: the California Bighorn, the Nelson Desert Bighorn, and the Rocky Mountain Bighorn.
You’ll find the bear behind security on Concourse B. The Bighorn Sheep are just outside the B checkpoint.
And here’s one more reason to like this airport: travelers who show ID and a same day boarding pass can get a complimentary half-day lift ticket (night skiing included) at Squaw Valley USA, about an hour from the airport. The offer is valid from 1 to 9 pm Fridays and Saturdays and or from 1 to 7 pm mid-week when there are night operations in effect.
Here’s a brilliant idea:
Amsterdam Schiphol Airport has partnered with the Dutch Public Libraries to open the world’s first airport library. The library is just past passport control, on Holland Boulevard, and offers passengers waiting for a flight a place to read books in 29 different languages, listen to music, watch films and download material free of charge.
This from an airport that already offers travelers a great collection of art, a casino, a seafood bar, a chocolate bar, a fun forest for kids, a branch of the Rijksmuseum and lots more.
Her Royal Highness Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands was on hand for the opening of the Schiphol Airport Library on Holland Boulevard
Now… when we will have library branches in US airports?
Today marks the grand opening of The Palm Bar & Grille in the pre-security area of Terminal 4 at JFK International Airport , the airport where an air traffic controller is in hot water over letting his kids on the mike in the control tower.
This is the first airport location of the famed New York steakhouse, and it joins a line-up of dining options in Terminal 4 that also includes the first U.S. location for the Seafood Bar by Caviar House & Prunier and two new post-security, sit-down restaurants Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & Bar and Tigin Irish Pub & Restaurant (scheduled to open May 2010).
And down in Texas, the popular Houston-based Pappas Restaurants has just opened Pappasito’s Cantina in Terminal A (by Gate 28) at DFW International Airport. The Tex-Mex menu includes fajitas, enchiladas, tortillas and, of course, margaritas.
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