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Lurching towards summer travel

05/14/26

As we lurch towards the summer travel season, we’re seeing rising gas prices and soaring airline fares. Prices are also rising for hotels, meals, attractions, admissions, souvenirs and everything else you might need or want to do when you’re on vacation. And don’t get us started about the costs of visiting any US city that […]

Harriet Baskas

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Airport and Airline Resources

See KLM’s new limited-edition miniature Delft Blue House

Flight attendant fashion at the Museum of Flight

Wine flies free on these 2 airlines

Let’s talk about airline sizing restrictions

New American Airlines trading cards

New ways to sleep on long-haul flights in the economy cabin

Fuel costs rise. Airfares & bag fees rise too.

Icelandair’s job opening for a bad photographer

Cathay Pacific returns to SEA after 6 years

News from 1 airline, 1 airport + a hotel lobby

Lurching towards summer travel

05/14/26

See KLM’s new limited-edition miniature Delft Blue House

05/13/26

Fans of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines who fly as Business Class passengers on an intercontinental flight look forward to choosing a miniature Delft Blue house from a cart rolled down the aisle towards the end of the flight. KLM has been gifting these miniature gin-filled houses representing special buildings in the Netherlands and beyond to […]

IND Airport & Speed City ready for INDY 500

05/12/26

Hundreds of thousands of car race fans will be heading to Indianapolis soon for the 110th running of the Indianapolis 500 race, which takes place this year on Sunday, May 24. A great many of those fans will be arriving by air. And Indianapolis International Airport (IND) is ready to welcome those fans with race-themed […]

SFO airport exhibit explores San Francisco as tourist destination

05/10/26

A new exhibition at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) explores how San Francisco and the Bay Area have been promoted as a tourist destination over the years, with a big boost from airlines. The commecial airline industry, has ben “an active participant in the touristic myth-making—especially before smartphones and laptop computers replaced visits to travel […]

Have an out of this world Mother’s Day

05/09/26

If our mom was still present on this planet, she’d be delighted to learn that the Pentagon released some of its ‘secret’ UFO files this week. Because, although she was down to earth in every other way, whenever the topic of UFOs and visitors from other planets came up in the news, she’d say, with […]

Cruising through Seattle

05/08/26

Summer cruise season here in Seattle – the Stuck at the Airport homebase – runs from mid-April through mid-October. And this summer a record-breaking 2.1 million passengers have reservations on 330 vessels heading north to Alaska in search of wildlife, glaciers, mountains, forests, fjords and more. We flown, but never sailed, to Alaska. Yet this […]