San Diego’s “mystery airport” unveiled
Japan and Hong Kong have airports built on man-made islands, so why not San Diego? That’s apparently the solution a private business group had in mind when it sought a patent for the design of a multilevel airport with three runways that could be built in shallow water and accessed via an underwater tunnel. Now […]
Snooze at Stockholm Airport
Stockholm-Arlanda Airport not only has a fancy new duty-free store with the world’s largest “snusidor,” there’s also a hotel in the middle of the airport, the Radisson SAS Sky City Hotel between Terminals 4 and 5. Starting around January 15th, travelers will also be able to spend a night at the nearby Jumbo Hostel, a […]
Award winning designs at airports and on airplanes
The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Center for Architecture and Urban Studies have announced their 2008 Good Design Awards. One winner: the Dyson Airblade Hand Dryer, which is installed in some restrooms at the Los Angeles International, San Francisco, Phoenix, Detroit, Minneapolis, Nashville, Boston Logan, and Anchorage airports. Another winner: […]
Quiet please, the pilot is sleeping
Here’s a thoughtful, educational, and alarming article about the issue of napping pilots by James Wallace at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. In addition to recounting the details of the Go! airline pilots that fell asleep on their way from Honolulu to Hilo, Hawaii last February, Wallace describes a NASA study conducted to determine if intentional napping […]
Airport pickpockets
It’s easy to get distracted at the airport. But here’s a reminder from the Vancouver Sun about why it’s especially important to make sure your wallet is safely tucked away: Visitors to [Toronto’s] Pearson International Airport are being targeted by an organization of South American pickpockets, who stole as much as $500,000 last year, authorities […]
Travel tip from a wine lover
The complimentary drink choices offered to business and first class cabin passengers usually include a variety of top notch wines. Not so in coach. If you want wine, you pay for it. And the choices are never that exciting: red or white. But where there’s a will there’s a way. And a wine… as Harris […]
Love the layover: London’s Madame Tussauds free for US citizens Jan 20th
Can’t afford to go to Washington, D.C. for the inauguration of Barack Obama on January 20th? Consider going to the see the newest U.S. president in London instead. On January 20th, Madame Tussauds in London will be unveiling its sculpture of Barack Obama. The waxwork version of the new president will be posed informally, in […]
Always travel with a sweater
Here’s another reason why it’s good to travel with a sweater – and why airports worldwide may soon be more enthusiastic to embrace solar and other alternative sources of energy. According to Reuters: Hungary’s main international airport, Budapest, switched to oil from gas heating on Wednesday [today], after Russian gas imports via Ukraine stopped. Local […]
Air India says flight attendants too fat to fly
A few months back, Air India grounded a group of flight attendants and told them they could return to the skies only if they lost weight. Instead of going on a diet, the flight attendants went to court. The scales of justice tipped in the airline’s favor, though, and now the airline has fired nine […]