Airports serve as the front doors to their cities and many do a great job of rolling out the welcome mat for visitors. Some airports do it with art. Some airports do it with “Welcome to” signs. And others do it with recorded messages. Los Angeles International Airport has been welcoming visitors with its “Voices […]
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) is building a new International Arrivals Facility (the IAF) which has a 708-foot-long aerial walkway as one of its features. When in place, the walkway will look like this and be the longest structure over an active airport taxiway. Pretty impressive, right? But as impressive is what it takes to make […]
TPA’s All Access program goes daily The Saturday-only gate pass program that Tampa International Airport (TPA) launched in May is going so well that starting January 18 the airport will being offering non-ticketed visitors access to the airside terminals every day of the week. Why go to the airport if you don’t have to? In […]
Gate pass programs expanding The pilot DTW Destination Pass program at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (DTW) which allows non-ticketed passengers past the security checkpoint began in October and was supposed to end this week. But so many non-ticketed visitors are interested in visiting DTW airport to shop, dine, check out airplanes and spend more […]
The Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY) is set to open its new airport terminal on Wednesday morning, November 6. Starting with an early morning flight at around 4 a.m., all 16 commercial airlines at MSY will operate from the new terminal. The old terminal will be close to the public tonight. StuckatTheAirport is […]
StuckatTheAirport.com toured the new $12 billion Istanbul Airport (IST) terminal this week. We’ll circle back to share more information and advice about making your way through this shiny new space, but we wanted to share just a few snaps of what we saw on our tour. There are, of course, shops and restaurants galore at […]
Airports serve as the front doors to their cities and many do a great job of rolling out the welcome mat for visitors. Some airports do it with art. Some airports do it with “Welcome to” signs. And others do it with recorded messages. Los Angeles International Airport has been welcoming visitors with its “Voices […]
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) is building a new International Arrivals Facility (the IAF) which has a 708-foot-long aerial walkway as one of its features. When in place, the walkway will look like this and be the longest structure over an active airport taxiway. Pretty impressive, right? But as impressive is what it takes to make […]
TPA’s All Access program goes daily The Saturday-only gate pass program that Tampa International Airport (TPA) launched in May is going so well that starting January 18 the airport will being offering non-ticketed visitors access to the airside terminals every day of the week. Why go to the airport if you don’t have to? In […]
Gate pass programs expanding The pilot DTW Destination Pass program at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (DTW) which allows non-ticketed passengers past the security checkpoint began in October and was supposed to end this week. But so many non-ticketed visitors are interested in visiting DTW airport to shop, dine, check out airplanes and spend more […]
The Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY) is set to open its new airport terminal on Wednesday morning, November 6. Starting with an early morning flight at around 4 a.m., all 16 commercial airlines at MSY will operate from the new terminal. The old terminal will be close to the public tonight. StuckatTheAirport is […]
StuckatTheAirport.com toured the new $12 billion Istanbul Airport (IST) terminal this week. We’ll circle back to share more information and advice about making your way through this shiny new space, but we wanted to share just a few snaps of what we saw on our tour. There are, of course, shops and restaurants galore at […]
A clean public restroom? We vote yes! The lid has been lifted on the finalists for this year’s America’s Best Restroom contest and this year restrooms in two airports on opposite sides of the country are on the list. LaGuardia Airport’s loos in the running If the restrooms at LaGuardia Airport’s Terminal B are among […]
Airports around the world are getting makeovers. In some countries, new ones are being built. Travelers are excited about that, of course, but so are architects and people who appreciate great design. In this article from Architectural Record, the Airport Construction Council notes that at least $70 billion is being spent over five years, beginning […]
