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The germiest spots on airplanes & in airports

11/15/12
If you’ll be among the 24 million people expected to be in an airport and on a plane this Thanksgiving holiday period, Charles Gerba, the University of Arizona microbiology professor known as “Dr. Germ,” has some important travel advice for you: Pack light and carry hand sanitizer. Gerba, whose travel souvenirs often include test swabs […]

Flight schedules reviving; relief efforts rewarded

11/01/12
In the New York area, JFK, Newark-Liberty and LaGuardia airports are all expected to be open on Thursday morning, although on reduced schedules, and passengers “displaced” by Sandy throughout the country – and the world – are slowly making their way to their destinations – or giving up altogether and making plans for another time. […]

Hurricane Sandy: airlines, airports not fooling around

10/29/12
Airlines & airports are not fooling around when it comes to Hurricane Sandy. On Sunday evening, news outlets were reporting that airlines had already canceled close to 7,000 flights throughout the system – not just in the northeast – in anticipation of the storm and encouraging passengers to take advantage of cancellation waiver offers. Airports […]

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. […]
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