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Improving the odds of having your baggage arrive when you do.

02/26/10
My Well Mannered Traveler column – Mishandled baggage: Mission Accomplished? – on MSNBC.com this week is all about the odds of having your checked baggage arrive at your destination airport when you do – and the airlines’ efforts to improve those odds. The good news is that those odds have been improving.  According to statistics →

Airports discover courtesy can help the bottom line.

02/19/10
Noticed some extra nice lately? For airport employees around the country, courtesy and empathy are becoming part of the basic job description.  Not just because those are nice traits in workers, but because in these belt-tightening times, airports are hoping better customer service can help shore up the bottom line.   In my Well Mannered Traveler →

Tidbits for travelers: Free trips and free flu shots

02/18/10
Doesn’t Paris sound good right about now? Then sign up to win a pair of tickets (from Pittsburgh) to Paris – courtesy of Pittsburgh’s WHIRL Magazine, Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) and Delta Air Lines, Entries will be accepted through May 7, 2010. But why wait? Lufthansa Airlines isn’t giving away tickets to Paris, but if →

Tidbits for travelers: news from JAX, PHL, and ATL

02/17/10
On Valentine’s Day, volunteers at Jacksonville International Airport (JAX) handed out 1700 red and white carnations to arriving and departing passengers. (Photo courtesy Jacksonsville International Airport ) On Tuesday (February 16, 2010) Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) had a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new Terminal E expansion, which includes seven gates for Southwest Airlines and several →

Singapore’s Changi Airport celebrates Year of the Tiger

02/12/10
The Chinese New Year will be celebrated this Sunday and Singapore’s Changi Airport is ready with giant displays to welcome in the Year of the Tiger: Changi Airport also opened up an Aviation Gallery in Terminal 2, with loads of information stations, interactive kiosks, and 600 tiny airplanes hanging from the ceiling. Here’s a “please-touch” →

Airports in Reno, Toronto and Dusseldorf pay tribute to Winter Olympics

02/09/10
(Eddie ‘The Eagle’ Edwards at the world’s largest ski jump inside an airport) Airports around the world are marking this year’s Winter Olympics in Vancouver with special exhibits. Yesterday, the Reno Tahoe International Airport (RNO) opened an Olympics museum inside the terminal. This past weekend, Düsseldorf  International Airport trucked in tons of snow to make →

Olympic Museum opens at Reno-Tahoe International Airport

02/08/10
Today, February 8, 2010, is opening day for a new Olympic History Museum at the Reno-Tahoe International Airport (RNO). Designed to draw attention to efforts to bring the winter games to Reno in 2022 and to the upcoming 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver, the museum celebrates the 50th anniversary of the 1960 Squaw Valley Olympic →

Souvenir Sunday at SFO Airport: gifts from Alcatraz

02/07/10
Happy Souvenir Sunday! If you’re stuck at the airport you can snooze, snack, eavesdrop and, of course, shop for souvenirs.  So each Sunday here at StuckatTheAirport.com we feature fun, local, offbeat,  items you can find at airports for under $10. This week’s souvenir comes to us (again!!) from Ken Rogers.  He sent along this photo →

13 million cranberries, Dusseldorf Airport’s Ski jump, and Amelia Earhart

02/05/10
This weekend would be a good time to have as my superpower the ability to travel anywhere in the world and be in several places at once. If I could, I’d stop first in Richmond, British Columbia, a short SkyTrain ride away from the Vancouver International Airport to watch 13 million (!!) locally-grown cranberries get →
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