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The giant onion at Walla Walla Airport

01/12/25

Walla Walla, Washington (the town so nice they named it twice) is well known for its world-class wines and the Walla Walla Sweet Onion. Although there are more than 120 wineries in the area and more than 750,000 annual visitors, there are just two flights daily in and out of Walla Walla Regional Airport (ALW), →

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Roundup: Best Airport Amenities 2024

12/29/24

The Stuck at the Airport team, like Santa, keeps a list of airports that are very, very good. And we’re happy to share our round-up of some of the best airport amenties we spotted in 2024. If we missed your favorite, let us know! Note: our first first appeared on the The Points Guy site →

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SEA Airport gets a mascot

12/05/24

Mascots. Sports teams have them. Schools have them. Theme parks have them. And airports have them too. The Stuck at the Airport team has encountered cute mascots at airports nationwide and around the world and is delighted that our home airport, Seattle Tacoma International Airport (SEA) now has one too. Just in time for the →

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Tidbits for Travelers

09/20/24

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month at PHL Airport Now through October 15, 2024, watch for events at Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) celebrating Hispanic and Latino culture. The lineup includes craft workshops, salsa dance lessons, heritage talks and samplings of churros and other foods from around the world. See the full schedule here. JetBlue plans to open lounges in NY →

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Which airports do travelers love the most?

09/19/24

It turns out that Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP) can win passengers’ hearts even without the promised aircraft viewing area with a pool announced on April Fools Day a few years back. In the J.D. Power 2024 North America Airport Satisfaction Study, MSP ranks highest in passenger satisfaction in the ‘mega-airport’ category, followed by Detroit →

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Where is the world’s busiest airport?

07/16/24

Airports Council International (ACI) World tallies airline traffic numbers each year and the trade group just released the official list of the busiest airports in the world in 2023. A preliminary list was released in April. And, as it did then, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) tops the list for passenger traffic, followed by Dubai →

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Greetings from Nashville Intl Airport (BNA)

07/14/24

The Stuck at the Airport team spent the weekend exploring Nashville International Airport (BNA) and testing out the airport’s brand new BNA PASSport gate pass program from our base at the new Hilton BNA Nashville Airport Terminal. The hotel is on the plaza between the terminal and the covered parking garage. Just outside the hotel →

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Visit this airport, & others, without a plane ticket

07/08/24

This month Nashville International Airport (BNA) joins the list of airports with a guest pass program. The BNA Passport guest pass program allows a non-ticketed guest to go through the TSA security checkpoint like a ticketed passenger into the secure side of the airport. No more than 75 visitor passes a day are being issued. →

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Should there be a National Museum of Pop Culture? + a PDX airport trial run

06/26/24

Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP) Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP), home to exhibits and experiences celebrating rock and roll music, science fiction and other expressions of popular culture, wants to The National Museum of Pop Culture. And this week a bill was introduced in the House of Representatives to get the process in →

More airport libraries, please

04/16/24

Little Free Libraries and Take a Book/Leave a Book racks can be found at more and more airports. And the Stuck at The Airport literature department is all for it. We especially like this one: a Children’s Lending Library at Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) that is the brainchild of an actual child. The library →

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