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EU may soon welcome back US Travelers + Smithsonian’s Udvar-Hazy Center to reopen

04/26/21

Sick of being stuck at home? Eyeing Europe for that first post-pandemic trip? You may be in luck. A New York Times story on Sunday evening offers real hope that you may be able to head that way. Perhaps as early as this summer. According to the NYT, the EU is Set to Let Vaccinated →

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Ready for a ‘vaxication’?

03/21/21

(This is a story we wrote for NBC News) Ready to Travel? A growing wave of relaxed restrictions, along with an increasing number of vaccinated Americans, is leading to a surge in “vaxications” and other trips, after a year of pandemic-induced lockdowns. Mothballed restaurants, hotels and attractions, canceled cruise seasons, and record low airline passenger →

Stuck at the Airport: Friday Round-up

02/25/21

Happy Friday. We’re ending the week here at Stuck at The Airport with some tidbits that caught our attention, like this #TBT – “Throwback Thursday” – tweet from O’Hare International Airport And this #TBT tweet from Houston’s Hobby Airport (HOU) All month long, we’re been paying attention to – and learning from – the tweets →

How sad it is out there in the world of travel?

04/08/20

You know that the current health crisis has caused people to cancel trips and airlines to temporarily slash flight schedules to the bone. Here are few other measurements that underscore how bad it is right now. TSA screening numbers hit record low On Tuesday, April 7, the Transportation Security Administration screened just 97,310 passengers and →

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New airport trading cards. Collect them all.

10/16/18

37 new cards are now out in circulation as part of the North American Airport Collectors Series. St. Louis Lambert International Airport (STL) issued its third trading card in the series, which now includes trading cards from more than 80 airports. The airport trading card series launched in 2014 and this fall 37 new cards →

So long, Sydney: take-aways from IATA’s meeting of world’s airline execs

06/05/18

A recap of airline and airport-related topics discussed in Sydney, Australia at the annual general meeting of CEOs from around the world. →

This summer everyone may be at the airport

05/25/18

The Memorial Day weekend signals the start of the busy summer travel season and it looks like a lot of people will be spending a lot of time in airports. According to the trade group Airlines for America (A4A), a record 246.1 million passengers — an average of 2.68 million per day — are expected →