PHX Sky Train birthday. Check out the terrazzo floors.
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX) marked the birthday of its Sky Train, which started operating on April 8, 2013 with three stations. Today, the PHX Sky Train has 6 stations, each with wonderful terrazzo flooring commissioned by the city’s public art program. Two stations, the Rental Car Center Station and the 24th Street Station […]
Avelo contracts to fly ICE deportation flights
Avelo under fire for contracting with ICE for deportation flights The U.S. government usually contracts with charter companies for deportation flights. And you can read a ProPublica account of those flights here. But now a commercial budget airline, Houston-based Avelo, has a contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration Control and Enforcement agency […]
Things we miss at airports: telephones
Yes, it seems that almost every traveler has a telephone in their pocket or purse these days. But we spotted this photo of a bank of pay phones at New York’s LaGuardia Airport dated 1981 and got a wee bit nostalgic. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress