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Win an Airbnb stay in a converted KLM airplane

11/15/14

Now here’s a great way to spend the Thanksgiving weekend: inside an “airplane apartment.” From now through November 20, you can enter a contest to win an overnight stay – on November 28, 29 or 30 – inside a recently retired KLM MD-11 airplane parked next to Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. The plane has been turned […]

Airports adding – and rejecting – ride-shares

11/14/14

Airports across the country are grappling with how to deal with taxi-alternative services and Transportation Network Companies (TNCs) such as Uber and each week a few deals are being made. This week San Francisco International Airport (SFO) announced an agreement with Wingz, a company that connects citizen drivers with people needing airport rides. The pilot […]

Heading to the airport? Where’s your gun?

11/06/14

The numbers seem a bit boggling: despite the fact that firearms, ammunition, firearm parts, and realistic replicas of firearms are prohibited in carry-on baggage, an increasing number of passengers continue to show up at airport checkpoints with these items. In fact, according to the Transportation Security Administration, at the end of the day on November […]

Achoo! Airports offering flu shots

11/05/14

Thrilled, once again, to be doing a short (one-day this time) fill-in for Ben Mutzabaugh on the Today in the Sky blog at USA Today. For the first entry of the day: my annual “where to get your flu shot at the airport” round-up. Forget the headlines and the hysteria. As this chart explains, it’s […]

Formula 1 fans race out of Austin – with souvenirs

11/02/14

Austin is hosting the Formula One United States Grand Prix this weekend and thousands of race fans are passing through Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. Passenger traffic at the airport is expected to be the highest on Sunday night (Nov 2) and on Monday, (Nov 3), as race fans head home. So to help the process go […]

Greetings from Victoria, B.C.

10/26/14

Two airport firsts for me this weekend on a very short trip to Canada. I took my first Kenmore Air seaplane ride from Seattle to Victoria, B.C. and I finally had a chance to visit Victoria International Airport. I actually took two seaplane rides. The first flight from Seattle to Victoria had to turn around […]

How to cut costs on airport parking

10/19/14

How often have you spent hours scouring websites for savings on airfares and hotel rooms only to get dinged with sky-high costs for parking at the airport. If you know where to look, you can often find deep discounts, free parking and, in some cities, even get paid for parking your car at or near […]

Dallas Love Field gets a re-boot

10/14/14

Here are some snaps from Dallas Love Field, where celebrations were underway and finishing touches to the terminal were on display in celebration of the lifting of the Wright Amendment on Monday, October 13. The ruling, created in 1979 to foster growth at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, had imposed flight restrictions on long-haul flights from […]

E-cigs on a plane & in the airport

10/11/14

Can you vape on vacation? Maybe. Maybe not. Sales of e-cigarettes and their cousins, re-fillable “vaporizers,” are currently a $2.2 billion market in the United States, according to tobacco analysts at Wells Fargo Securities, up from an estimated $1.7 billion in 2013. And e-cig consumption could surpass that of combustible cigarettes in 10 years, according […]

Ebola and airports

10/08/14

Lots in the news right now about Ebola and airports. On Wednesday (October 8, 2014) the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Department of Homeland Security’s Customs & Border Protection (CBP) announced new entry screening procedures for the five U.S. airports that receive over 94 percent of travelers from the Ebola-affected nations […]

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