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Free Wi-Fi at Cleveland Airport and new napping suites at Atlanta Airport

11/19/09

Cleveland Rocks! Kudos to the Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport (CLE) and the non-profit group OneCommunity for working together to bring permanent free Wi-Fi to the airport. Cleveland Airport joins many other smart airports that offer travelers free Wi-Fi year round. And, lest you forget, from now through January 15, 2010, Google is covering the Wi-Fi fees →

Alaska Airlines unveils an Apolo Ohno plane

11/18/09

Seattle is pretty proud of Apolo Anton Ohno, who began his speed-skating career here when he was just 14 and went on to win numerous world and national championships and five Olympic medals. (Oh yeah, he was also on the Dancing with the Stars TV show.) Now he’s getting ready for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics →

Honolulu Int’l Airport testing wind power

11/17/09

In October 2006, an earthquake knocked out all the electricity on the island of Oahu and closed down the Honolulu Airport, which had inadequate back-up generators. Now the state of Hawaii is testing a series of wind turbines that should generate enough power to keep the airport operating should there be another emergency situation. You →

Win prizes for getting caught recycling at Denver Int’l Airport

11/16/09

All this week, Denver International Airport (DEN) is rewarding passengers who get “caught” recycling with gift certificates for airport shops and restaurants. The promotion is in honor of America Recycle Days, which officially took place on Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009. The promotion runs from today (Mon. 11/16/09) through Friday (11/20/09) and the way to win →

Tidbits for Travelers: New link to SEA and new dining and discounts at MSP

11/14/09

Great news for travelers heading to or from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) this holiday season: The Airport Station of Sound Transit’s Link light rail system between downtown and the airport will open at 10 a.m. on December 19, 2009. That means that instead of getting shuttled by bus between the airport and a light rail →

Great spots for plane-spotting

11/11/09

I recently put together a USATODAY.com column highlighting some of the observation decks at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP), Baltimore-Washington Thurgood Marshall International Airport (BWI), and other North American airports. Today I’ve got a column about plane-spotting sites outside airport terminals. The sites listed range from Millbrae, California’s Bayfront Park, which offers great views of →

Listen to your airport

11/09/09

While working on a column about airport viewing areas I came across at least one airport that provides a link on its Web site to audio of the communication going on between pilots and the air traffic control tower. The Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) includes a pre-recorded sample of the chit-chat and promises that →

Souvenir Sunday at Milwaukee’s General Mitchel Int’l Airport

11/08/09

Happy Souvenir Sunday! On Sunday here at Stuck at the Airport, we take a look at some of the fun, local, inexpensive and, ideally, somewhat offbeat things for sale at airports around the country. This week, the folks at General Mitchell International Airport (MKE) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin sent over some suggestions: First up: Jelly Belly →

Tidbits for travelers: lost luggage, found privacy, & contests

11/05/09

A little bit of this ‘n that today. (No one is walking off with this bag!) The story out of Phoenix about a couple who managed to steal more than 1,000 pieces of luggage from the baggage claim carousels at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport is alarming, for sure. But we shouldn’t be surprised. While →

Homework assignment for those wayward Northwest pilots

10/27/09

What were those two Northwest pilots up to when they missed the turn-off for Minneapolis last week? “Going over their schedules” on their laptop computers is the latest explanation. I liked some of the other theories that were floating around better. Like the one about an alien abduction. Now that would have been interesting. But →

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