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Greetings from New Zealand’s Auckland Airport

10/22/09

First impressions are important, especially if you’re a city and you’d like folks who are just passing through to come back and stay awhile. So you’d think every city would want its airport – its front door – to be all pretty and nice. Like, say, Auckland Airport. Check out what greets visitors arriving on →

Free in-flight Wi-Fi and a chance to win free trips

10/21/09

I’m a big fan of free. Free wireless Internet at airports. Free admission to cool museums. Free samples. And free travel. And while I’m personally one of those “I never win anything” people, I keep that line (I think I saw it on a lottery commercial) in mind – “Some lucky dog’s gonna’ win it” →

Meeting Aviation Pioneer Jean Batten in Rotorua, New Zealand

10/20/09

Earlier this week, my short flight from New Zealand’s Rotorua Regional Airport to Auckland was canceled, so I ended up stuck at that tiny airport for a while. Good thing. The delay gave me a chance to look around. In addition to finding more than a half-dozen giant statues, I was able to learn a →

New art exhibit at Philadelphia Int’l Airport uses nails and thread

10/19/09

The newest exhibition at Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) is Kim Kamens’ Photobooth. Instead of using paint, pen or pencils, Kamens uses carpenter nails and sewing thread to make her art. PHL Director of Exhibitions, Leah Douglas, says: Kamens’ carefully orchestrated methodology is analogous to drawing as the linear quality of the thread wound from point →

Souvenir Sunday at Düsseldorf Airport

10/18/09

Happy Souvenir Sunday from Düsseldorf Airport! On Sundays we take a look at some of the fun things you can find when you’re stuck at the airport. Our rules: the items must be under $10, “of” the city or region and, ideally, a bit offbeat. This week: Germany’s Düsseldorf Airport, where these giant giraffes – →

Air New Zealand Matchmaking Party – kisses all around

10/16/09

Last night, acting, looking, and in a few cases smelling like a bunch of junior high kids embarking on their first prom, about a hundred of the Americans who flew to Auckland on Air New Zealand’s Matchmaking Flight joined 150 nattily-dressed Kiwis for the Great Matchmaking Party. As billed, it was a night of inter-hemisphere →

More on Air New Zealand’s Matchmaking Flight

10/15/09

Greetings from Auckland! Today many of the 111 folks who flew on Air New Zealand’s Matchmaking Flight from Los Angeles will spend the day prepping and primping for tonight’s gala party. Not just a party, but a get-all-dressed-up Matchmaking Ball, where folks who took the 13 hour flight over from the U.S. will get to →

Air New Zealand’s matchmaker flight touches down in Auckland

10/14/09

Just wanted to share a few photos from Air New Zealand’s matchmaking flight from Los Angeles to Auckland, which left LAX last night about 10:30 and arrived in a rainy Auckland this morning around 7:30 am. First surprise: not everyone was 21 years old. Folks who signed up for the flight appeared to range in →

Air New Zealand’s Matchmaking Flight

10/13/09

Air New Zealand, the folks who brought us those cheeky and now-classic, nearly-naked commercials (see a sample below), will be sending a planeload of folks from Los Angeles to Auckland tonight, October 13th, on a 12-hour matchmaking flight. As MSNBC.com’s (very happily married, thank-you) Well Mannered Traveler, I get to tag along to see if →

(ANA) All Nippon Airways’ flush-before-you-fly program.

10/09/09

I was pretty sure the story about ANA (All Nippon Airways) asking passengers to pee before boarding – to help lighten the airplane’s, uh, load – was an offhand joke that went viral. Especially when I couldn’t find anything about the campaign on the airline’s Web site. But that was just because I can’t read →

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