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At SFO Airport: Mansion of Happiness & Sociable Snakes

10/24/12
Who would have imagined that you could find happiness, let alone the Mansion of Happiness at an airport? But there it is in the SFO Museum’s new exhibit Let’s Play! 100 Years of Board Games at San Francisco International Airport, located post-security in the Terminal 2, Departures Level. The Mansion of Happiness game is a […]

Makeover for Terminal 5 at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport

10/17/12
Will a ribbon cutting and this snazzy video, on Tuesday the Chicago Department of Aviation (CDA) and Westfield Concession Management unveiled plans for significant renovations at Terminal 5 at Chicago O’Hare International Airport. Coming in Fall 2013: a totally new look, 15 new dining and retail brands and a variety of other amenities. It’s the […]

TSA finds are frightening

10/01/12
I’m just now getting around to taking a good look at the TSA Week in Review from last week Inert hand grenades, inert training detonators, knives hidden inside the lining of someone’s carry-on… it’s all getting to be so strangely familiar. The same goes for last week’s tally of loaded (25) and unloaded (4) guns. […]

Souvenir Sunday all week long

09/26/12
Earlier this week, I shared a few of the tacky souvenirs I was going to feature in my NBC News Travel article about Doug Lansky’s new book, “Crap Souvenirs.” Here’s the full story, as well as more photos of some kooky souvenirs. As the author of the popular “Signspotting” series of books chronicling weird and […]

Sheep, goats and bees at airports

09/15/12
Earlier this week, I wrote about Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport’s week-long pilot project to employ 100 sheep (plus a few goats) to munch on invasive vegetation on airport property. ATL’s program comes on the heels of SFO’s 8-year long use of goats to keep weeds at bay and a short-lived experiment a few years back […]

Will Berlin’s new airport ever open?

09/08/12
  Confirmation came on Friday, that the opening of the new Berlin-Brandenberg Airport has been put off for again – this time for another seven months. The new target date: October 27, 2013. According to a statement, the COO of Berlin Airport, Horst Amann, has “pressed the reset button in the area of building services,”  […]
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