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Vancouver Airport already planning for the Olympics to be over

02/03/10
Talk about planning ahead. The Vancouver 2010 Winter Games haven’t even started, but months ago officials at Vancouver International Airport (YVR) started making plans for the day the games end. It makes sense. During the games, athletes and fans will come and go. So there will be crowds at the airport, but it shouldn’t be →

Love the layover: straight to the moon from Düsseldorf Airport

01/29/10
Next weekend, February 6 and 7, 2010, visitors to the Düsseldorf International Airport will be entertained by skiers and snowboarders performing stunts and jumps on a 130-foot long ski slope set up right in the shopping arcade of the terminal. Pretty impressive by itself, but if you’re heading to Düsseldorf to see the world’s first →

Vancouver Int’l Airport gets ready for the 2010 Winter Olympics

01/28/10
The opening ceremonies for the 2010 Winter Olympics are just around the corner, and final details are hurriedly being worked out and set in place in downtown Vancouver, up at Whistler and at various venues and attractions throughout the region. It’s particularly exciting out at the airport. Vancouver International Airport will be the first stop →

Tidbits for travelers: YVR’s Olympic rings & Air New Zealand’s Skycouches

01/26/10
The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics kick off in just a few weeks and Vancouver International Airport (YVR) is getting ready to welcome more than 230,000 athletes and Olympics-bound visitors. Actually, the airport has been sprucing up for quite a while. In addition to its swanky new Observation Gallery, the airport has had these giant Olympic →

Love the layover: airport adventures on Oahu and the Big Island

01/22/10
Snowstorms, mudslides, rain, more rain, and tornadoes. Sounds like a good time for a trip to Hawaii. If you go, or just want to dream a bit about going, be sure to check out the slide-show I put together for MSNBC.com – Cheap and Offbeat Oahu – about activities that are free, cheap or bit →

Fresh art at LA/Ontario Int’l Airport (ONT) & at Austin-Bergstrom Int’l Airport (AUS)

01/21/10
No time to go the museum? No problem. Plenty of airports have great art and cultural exhibits you can catch on the fly. At LA/Ontario International Airport (ONT) Art Saving Lives, put together by the non-profit Art Aids Art non-profit organization, displays elaborate beadwork, sculptures, dolls, animals and wearable accessories made by artists from South →

Tidbits for travelers: Free Wi-Fi, Olympic travel tips, and in-flight body-mass tax

01/20/10
We want Wi-Fi Slowly but surely airports large and small are getting with the program and making free wireless Internet access available in the terminals. The latest major airport to join the party: Boston Logan International Airport (BOS). Hooray! Packing tips from Olympic athletes Curious about what some Olympic athletes do when they’re traveling – →

Get ready to start getting to the airport even earlier

01/15/10
Late Thursday afternoon  (January 14, 2010) Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano released a(nother) new statement about additional aviation security precautions being rolled out at the nation’s airports. What will those new precautions entail? According to Napolitano’s statement, “…Some of these measures include enhanced random screening, additional federal air marshals on certain routes and adding individuals →
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