SXSW and live music at Austin airport
Going to Austin for SXSW? The fun – and free stuff – starts at the airport. Austin-Bergstrom International Airport has three live-music venues (all post-security) that together offer up at least seven free concerts each week. And since Austin is chock-full of top-notch musicians and the concert organizer, Nancy Coplin, is plugged into the scene, […]
Tulip field at Amsterdam Airport
Heading to or through Amsterdam Schiphol Airport during the first two weeks of April? You could happily spend your whole vacation at the airport, what with the massage spa, the snooze chairs, the casino, the kids play area, the museum, and all the great shops, restaurants and artwork. They even have a YOTEL there, where […]
Exit-row etiquette: should you have a license to sit there?
Who doesn’t enjoy being seated in the exit row? The seats assure cramped passengers extra inches of legroom and are an airplane’s most coveted feature. How do get one of those seats? They’re usually assigned to top-tier frequent fliers, passengers who have paid an extra fee, those who ask nicely or folks who are simply […]
What’s near: Stewart International Airport?
This seems handy: Stewart International Airport (SWF) in New York’s Hudson Valley is close to a good many historic and cultural sites you can now find out about from an interactive map on the Web site of the Port Authority of NY & NJ, which now runs this airport. The airport portion of the map […]
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 […]
Beer here: where to get all hopped up at the airport
A toast to Claire Walter at Travel Babel for pointing us to the in-depth Beer Lover’s Airport Guide by Jerome Greer Chandler over at CheapFlights.com. By all means print it out and tuck this guide into your carry-on. That way, if you’re stuck at the airport in Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Denver […]