Spotted at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport
On a tour of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport – my home-base airport – on Friday, I spotted a few new amenities, including this handy water bottle refilling station, that can fill up to three bottles at a time: And this sign, at the airport’s Quiet Gate, reminding travelers that they can download free books.
Souvenir Sunday at Santiago International Airport
Santiago International Airport (SCL) has a nice variety of shops offering crafts and gourmet treats. Here are a few photos of some of the souvenirs I considered buying.
Denver Airport deletes smoking lounges
Denver International Airport is making good on its plan to close down the smoking lounges. Since May, when the city’s mayor held a press conference to announce the plan, three of the four smoking lounges at the Denver airport have closed. The fourth lounge, Timberline, located on on Concourse C, will shut down when its […]
Chasing ICE at O’Hare Airport
It’s cold in Chicago this time of year and it may feel a bit colder at O’Hare International Airport when you take a few moments to view the new exhibit featuring a collection of 18 large-scale images of glaciers from the Extreme Ice Survey (EIS) project. “Ice: Portraits of Vanishing Glaciers”, located past security in […]
Exhibition of souvenirs at San Francisco International Airport
Tokens of travel come in all forms: from photos and hotel keys to shells, rocks, postcards and handcrafted or mass-produced souvenirs. Keep that in mind as you enjoy the new SFO Museum exhibition at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) filled with mementos from the nineteenth century to the present, including sailors’ valentines, world’s fair souvenirs, […]
Travel Tidbits: private screeners & fish
Later this month, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was scheduled to send out requests for proposals (RFPs) for private security screening firms to replace federal screeners at Sacramento International Airport (SMF) in California and Orlando-Sanford International Airport (SFB) in Florida as part of the Screening Partnership Program (SPP). The contract for private screening services at […]
Week long delay for some Alaska Airlines passengers?
My route home to Seattle from Santiago, Chile was via Miami and Chicago, so I suspected I was maybe just very tired and a bit out of it when I looked at the “Departures” and “Arrivals” screens for Alaska Airlines at O’Hare International Airport. The departures were definitely for January 7th – my day of […]
Greetings from: Miami International AIrport
It’s been a while since I’ve had a few hours to spend at Miami International Airport (MIA) and – after an all night flight from Santiago, a quick cortado at MIA’s Cafe Versailles and a breakfast of sushi – (how international!) I’m ready to explore. Here are a few snaps from my first half hour […]
Souvenir Sunday: sweets in Santiago
I’ve been fortunate to start off the new year with a few days working and exploring in Santiago after flying on LAN Airlines’ first 787 Dreamliner flight from LAX to Santiago. The city is large and my time here is short, so I plunked down $155 for a five-hour, personalized, fast-paced tour of the city […]