Tidbits for travelers: BWI Twitters, Southwest pampers,
Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) used its Twitter account during the recent east coast snowstorm to share information about weather conditions and flight delays and hopes you’ll sign up to get their tweets- including updates on parking – next time you’re headed that way. And Southwest Airlines rolled out yet another priority security lane […]
United’s Red Carpet Club day-pass on sale
Not sure how long this will last, but United is having a little sale on one-day passes to the Red Carpet Club. If you buy your pass on-line, you’ll pay $39 instead of $50. For travelers like me, who had to let their annual club membership lapse, it’s a good deal. Especially now that Wi-Fi […]
Update on MIA’s Carybé murals – the video
Miami International Airport is going to be the new home of the two murals by Brazilian artist Carybé that were part of the American Airlines terminal at JFK since 1960. Taking the murals out of American’s old JFK terminal wasn’t easy – each mural is 16½ feet by 53 feet. And they weren’t just hung […]
Let’s all go to the movies
It would be great if we could watch movies – cartoons, short subjects, mini-docs, etc. – at the airport. For free (of course). Given how long we all spend at airports these days, there’s often time to watch full-length features as well. Instead, we often watch films in-flight. And as I wrote here a while […]
Band of Luggage Thieves nabbed at Bradly Int’l Airport
“Cameras. Laptop computers. Flat-screen televisions. Cellphones. Jewelry. Even 5-foot-tall African masks.” (Photo courtesy of Connecticut State Police) That’s the way a Hartford Courant writer starts off his article about the arrest of a “band of thieving baggage handlers” at Bradley International Airport. Some of the 11 people arrested worked for Delta Air Lines, others worked […]
Tidbits for travelers: danger at Mexico City airport; blue mustang at Denver airport
According to an Associated Press story, Mexico City is beefing up security at Mexico City International Airport ((International Airport Benito Juárez/MEX) after a series of armed robberies against travelers who exchanged money at the airport. 350 police officers have been added since December; now an additional 460 police officers will be assigned to patrol the […]
Miss Electricity: free theater performance at San Diego Int’l Airport
Travelers passing through San Diego International Airport on Tuesday, March 3, between 11 am and 2 pm, can enjoy a free theater performance. The La Jolla Playhouse’s Performance Outreach Program Tour will be performing Miss Electricity in the Terminal 2 West Baggage claim area (pre-security). It’s billed as “a delightful story of a young girl […]
When you’re stuck at the airport think: What would Dr. Seuss do?
Photo courtesy the Springfield Museum Today, March 2nd, is the birthday of Theodor Geisel, the author and illustrator better known to all of us as Dr. Seuss. In addition to classics such as “The Cat in the Hat” and “Green Eggs and Ham,” he wrote the life/travel advice poem titled “Oh! The Places you’ll go!,” […]
New art exhibit at Nashville Int’l Airport
The spring installment of the Flying Solo Series showcase at Nashville International Airport (BNA) opens on March 8 and features work by Justin Simcik, Gregor Turk, Lain York, the Lost Boys of Sudan and Shannon Stoney, whose work includes this really great photograph.