Travel tidbits: Free/green stuff from Southwest; trophy display at PHL

St. Patrick’s Day is on March 17th, but Southwest Airlines is celebrating almost a full week early. Tomorrow, March 12 (Thursday), three “very sprightly, very green, very enthusiastic leprechauns” will be flying to and from a variety of cities leading in-flight trivia games and passing out prizes in departure gates.  Look for them in Dallas, […]

Whale of a baggage mix-up in Philadelphia

MSNBC.com (and probably every other media outlet) picked up this story from Philadelphia about a pet store that went to pick up a delivery of fish from the airport and were given a box containing a dead body instead.

Headache at the airport? Don’t pay through the nose.

Massage bars, wine bars, museum-quality artwork, and shops selling everything from fine jewelry and gourmet chocolate to suits, fancy scarves and indestructible suitcases. You won’t have too much of a problem finding these services and products at most North American airports these days. But it’s a different story if you go looking for a bottle […]

I want these chairs at the airport!

The Wall Street Journal picked up a story about  some cool new airline seats, Thompson Solution’s Cozy Suite, that look downright cozy, and they say Delta Air Lines has hired the chair designers to create an economy-class version of the chair.   That sounds great.  But wouldn’t it be great it there were banks of seats […]