Air Travel

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Tidbits for travelers: seat fees, bag check refunds & fast rail service to ORD.

08/19/10
Good news, bad news for air travelers today. In the good file: If you book a 2-night weekend stay (Fri/Sat/Sun) at a IHG hotel (InterContinental, Crowne Plaza, , Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Staybridge Suites, Candlewood Suites and others), and check a bag on your flight there, you can get a rebate for up to →

Cutest airport pet park?

08/18/10
In response to a law that’s already a year-old, airports throughout the United States are putting in fenced, pet relief areas outside – and in a couple of cases, inside – the terminals. It’s a welcome amenity for pets and their people. And although they don’t have to make the parks look lovely, many airports →

Souvenir Sunday: emergency underpants at the Greenwood Space Travel Supply Co.

08/15/10
What would the souvenir stand look like at the airport where flights took off for outer space? No doubt just like the Greenwood Space Travel Supply Co. in Seattle, where there’s an Atomic Teleporter on-site and shelves full of useful and just plain fun and bizarre things for that out-of-this-world trip. Unfortunately – or maybe, →

Polar Bears and Musk Ox at Anchorage Airport

08/13/10
Ted Stevens, the former senator from Alaska who died in a plane crash earlier this week, had the pleasure of seeing a lot of things named for him while he was alive. The Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport is one of them.  The terminal offers free wireless Internet access and is home to the Alaska →

Fresh art at Phoenix and Austin airports

08/11/10
Stuck at the airport?  Look around. You may find an art exhibit right around the corner. A new exhibit at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport- Fiber Art Unraveled: Material and Process – features work by 19 Arizona artists. Here are a few samples: Nick Georgiou’s Green Reindeer is made from newspapers and discarded books; Clare →

Museum Monday: 1940 Air Terminal Museum, Houston Hobby Airport

08/09/10
There are close to 700 aviation and space museums in this country. Each Monday, we take a look at one of them.  Stick around. Eventually we’ll visit them all! This week: The 1940 Air Terminal Museum at Houston’s William P. Hobby Airport. Housed in the airport’s original art deco air terminal,the museum is dedicated to →

Ironing things out at Philadelphia International Airport

08/05/10
A new exhibit at Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) might make you a bit self-conscious about your wrinkled travel outfit. The exhibit features classic, streamlined clothes irons made in the 1930s and 40s, on loan from the collection of Jay Raymond, who has written a book on the subject. Why irons at the airport? “Like aircraft, →
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