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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Goats do it in San Francisco. Now sheep are doing it in Atlanta. As part of a pilot project, 100 grazing sheep (plus a few goats) are hard at work this week eating invasive plants such as kudzu on property belonging to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The sheep are hired from Ewe-niversally Green and are […]
Next time you’re at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport look down – and around. The airport has thirty works of art that are part of the building, including 10 floor medallions on the concourse. The one above, titled “Flight,” is by Michele Oka Doner and, like the other floor medallions, may be hard to see […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Goats do it in San Francisco. Now sheep are doing it in Atlanta. As part of a pilot project, 100 grazing sheep (plus a few goats) are hard at work this week eating invasive plants such as kudzu on property belonging to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The sheep are hired from Ewe-niversally Green and are […]
Next time you’re at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport look down – and around. The airport has thirty works of art that are part of the building, including 10 floor medallions on the concourse. The one above, titled “Flight,” is by Michele Oka Doner and, like the other floor medallions, may be hard to see […]
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,” […]
I had two days to spend in Hong Kong this week and spent one of them touring Hong Kong International Airport. There’s an entire shopping mall in Terminal 2, with a Disney store and pretty much every shop you’d see in an upscale mall in any city. Terminal 1 has many of the same sort […]
I was one of the lucky invited media guests on the August 28, 2012 Cathay Pacific delivery flight of a new Boeing 777-300ER from the Boeing factory to Hong Kong International Airport. (Here’s a link to a secret about the airplane that airline chief executive John Slosar pointed out during the trip.) The 12 hour […]