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Souvenir Sunday: horseshoes and cigars from Lexington’s Blue Grass Airport

06/20/10

Each Sunday at StuckatTheAirport.com is Souvenir Sunday – the day we look at some of the fun, inexpensive items for sale in airport gift shops. This week’s souvenirs come to us from the Blue Grass Airport (LEX) in Lexington, Kentucky. The Aviation Museum of Kentucky is on airport property and last weekend (June 13, 2010) →

Aliens, UFOs & crop circles at the airport

06/16/10

My At the Airport column on USATODAY.com this month – UFOS at DEN? is all about aliens (from outer space), UFOs, crop circles seen at some airport and the secret messages in some of the artwork at Denver International Airport Scary stuff – but really fun. Officials insist the 26-foot tall statue of the ancient →

Tidbits for travelers: win free travel, get guides to airports

05/26/10

First a couple of contests you might want to enter. The prizes include all-expenses-paid trips. To celebrate the release of Disney-Pixar’s Toy Story 3, Aflac is giving away a trip to Hollywood and a tour of Walt Disney Studios – for four people. Prize includes: airfare, three nights in a hotel, a special Disney tour, →

Schiphol getting world’s first airport library

05/22/10

(Strahov Monastery library, Prague. Photos courtesy Curious Expeditions , via Flickr) Over the years I’ve heard from one or two US airports that were toying with the idea of letting their local library have a cart somewhere in the terminal where travelers could check out and return library books. But so far, it seems nothing →

Cheap and Offbeat Amsterdam

05/21/10

On Monday, ash from the Icelandic volcano caused the cancellation of a lot of flights and left a lot of people stuck at the airport. Again. I was one of those people. I’d booked a one-day return trip from Amsterdam to Liverpool just to tour the John Lennon Airport, where the slogan is “Above us →

Tips and tidbits: free in-flight wi-fi and free travel e-book

05/19/10

The march to make sure we’ll never be without Wi-Fi in the sky continues: Alaska Airlines now has Gogo inflight Internet on six Boeing 737-800 airplanes and promises to have the service on all its planes by the end of 2010. To celebrate, there will be free Wi-Fi through July 31, 2010 anyplace those six →

Flushing out the truth about travel legends

05/14/10

From getting stuck-by-suction on an airplane toilet seat to discovering that your credit card number is stored on your hotel key car or that the strange smell in a motel room is a dead body entombed under your box spring, there are some strange and spooky stories circulating in the world of travel. Are they →

Airports and airlines recycle some surprising stuff

05/13/10

For my At the Airport column in USATODAY.com this month I offered a fun round-up of items being recycled by airports and airlines in an effort to be help save the earth and, in some cases, to save some serious money. You can read the full column, For airports and airlines, creative recyling brings cost →

Free movies at LAX

05/08/10

If you’re waiting for friends or family to arrive at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), or have a long layover and have already popped over to the Theme Building and taken the elevator up to the Encounter Restaurant, then make your way to the arrivals area at the Tom Bradley International Terminal (TBIT) and catch →

Party at Pittsburgh International Airport

05/04/10

To celebrate five years of service to Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT), Southwest Airlines will be throwing a little party at its PIT gates starting at 10 a.m. on Tuesday. Gate games and decorations are promised, but with Southwest, well, you never know quite what will happen. Even without a Southwest party, Pittsburgh Airport has a →

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