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Spotted at LAX: Happy Mom service

10/25/10

Asiana Airlines offers special services to moms traveling with infants. →

Souvenir Sunday at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport

10/24/10

Souvenir Sunday at Tokyo's Haneda Airport, in the new International Terminal. Highlights: Kit Kats in unusual flavors. →

Free Wi-Fi on Alaska Airlines… on one route in Alaska

10/23/10

Heading north to Alaska? If you see Santa, send us an email from your flight. While Aircell works on completing its Alaska-wide Gogo Inflight internet network for Alaska Airlines, passengers flying between Anchorage and Fairbanks will be able to use the service for free. So far, Alaska Airlines has installed Wi-Fi equipment on more than →

Opening of Haneda Airport International Terminal

10/21/10

Tokyo’s Haneda Airport opened its new International Terminal on Thursday, October 21, 2010. Here are just a few snapshots of the terminal. More later… The pre-security shopping street is designed to evoke a traditional Japanese Edo Village. But look closer and you’ll see a slot car racing center, And a Hello Kitty store →

New favorite airline amenity: ANA aroma cards

10/21/10

I’m joining ANA – All Nippon Airways – in Tokyo for two days (yes, just two days!) for the opening of the new International Terminal at Haneda Airport. I’ll have lots to share shortly about the planetarium and other intriguing amenities at this new terminal, but in the meantime I wanted to share my favorite →

Air New Zealand’s naughty puppet corrupting kids

10/20/10

Last week Air New Zealand came out with two very funny, but sort of naughty, videos featuring a fuzzy brown puppet name Rico. Here’s the link to those earlier videos. Now there’s a third: a nursery rhyme gone very wrong Rico is on his way to the U.S. for a visit and I think I’ll →

Feeling spacey?

10/18/10

If you’re a wee bit crafty, then NASA and Etsy, the online marketplace for handmade arts and crafts, want to hear from you. The two groups are hosting a “Space Craft,” contest seeking original handmade items or works of art inspired by NASA and NASA’s programs, such as the Space Shuttle Program, aeronautics, science and →

Souvenir Sunday at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport

10/17/10

The last time I flew out of the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport my plane-mates were a crew of rowdy guys heading home after a season of commercial fishing. They’d started drinking long before the midnight flight departed and kept at it until shortly before we touched down in Seattle. I’m sure a lot of →

Read a book, get miles. Or win a trip to Disney World

10/16/10

Remember reading? RIF (Reading Is Fundamental) and US Airways are working together on the third annual “Fly with US. Read with Kids” program and there are just a few weeks left to help them reach their goal of getting people to read to kids for 10 million minutes. Getting involved is easy: find a book →

Tidbits for travelers: contests, diaper cream and commercials

10/15/10

Yesterday, I posted a version of my current USAToday.com column about some new airport amenities you might be seeing at an airport near you. Things like short-stay sleep/work rooms, cigar lounges and machines that dispense sports apparel. Here’s one more amenity to add to the list: a Nanny Caddy. These are vending machines filled with →

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