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Dia de Muertos celebration at Kelowna International Airport

10/26/09

Kelowna International Airport (YLW) is a small(ish) airport in British Columbia, Canada that serves about one million passengers a year. It’s about an hour from Vancouver, with a kid’s play area, some intriguing art and history exhibits and, starting November 1st, 2009, non-stop flights to Mexico. To help spread the word, the airport is having →

Souvenir Sunday: Kiwi treats from Auckland Airport

10/25/09

Every Sunday at the Stuck at the Airport travel blog is Souvenir Sunday, when we feature fun, under $10 items found in airport souvenir shops. This week: a few treats from New Zealand’s Auckland Airport, which I toured after covering Air New Zealand’s matchmaking flight for my Well Mannered Traveler column on MSNBC.com. (Yes; a →

Ancient Greek pots found at SFO airport

10/23/09

Stuck at SFO? Don’t forget that San Francisco International Airport is home to an accredited museum program and has more than 20 exhibits on view at any one time. So don’t just sit there: get some culture. Right now, there’s a new exhibition that includes 40 ceramic vessels from Ancient Greece and its colonies, as →

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Greetings from New Zealand’s Auckland Airport

10/22/09

First impressions are important, especially if you’re a city and you’d like folks who are just passing through to come back and stay awhile. So you’d think every city would want its airport – its front door – to be all pretty and nice. Like, say, Auckland Airport. Check out what greets visitors arriving on →

Meeting Aviation Pioneer Jean Batten in Rotorua, New Zealand

10/20/09

Earlier this week, my short flight from New Zealand’s Rotorua Regional Airport to Auckland was canceled, so I ended up stuck at that tiny airport for a while. Good thing. The delay gave me a chance to look around. In addition to finding more than a half-dozen giant statues, I was able to learn a →

New art exhibit at Philadelphia Int’l Airport uses nails and thread

10/19/09

The newest exhibition at Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) is Kim Kamens’ Photobooth. Instead of using paint, pen or pencils, Kamens uses carpenter nails and sewing thread to make her art. PHL Director of Exhibitions, Leah Douglas, says: Kamens’ carefully orchestrated methodology is analogous to drawing as the linear quality of the thread wound from point →

Changi Airport celebrates Deepavali with flowers

10/17/09

Deepavali – or The Festival of Lights – is celebrated by Hindus worldwide to mark the victory of good over evil. To commemorate the holiday, you’ll find more than a dozen live garden displays and floral sculptures throughout Singapore’s Changi Airport through October 25th. Here’s a sample of the installations: There are seven displays in →

Signature Art at Raleigh-Durham International Airport

10/16/09

Last year, when North Carolina’s Raleigh-Durham International Airport had an open house to let the public see the new Terminal 2 building, they asked everyone who stopped by to sign their name to a sheet of paper. Artist Dunne Dittman later took those signatures and turned them into a piece of art – Signature Art →

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New art exhibit at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport

10/12/09

Elements, the newest exhibit at the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS), includes painting “with gravelly texture, collages layered with translucent, water-like colors, leafy items frozen in motion and metal coins fused together in hot wax.” Hot wax? The work of four Austin artists – Sharon Kyle Kuhn, Kristy Darnell Battani, Michelle Belto, and Jacqueline May – →

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Greetings from Changi Airport: butterflies and free coffee

10/09/09

I had loads of fun touring Singapore’s Changi Airport today and wanted to share a few photos of the some of the fun, unusual, and very useful amenities this airport offers. In addition to free wireless Internet access and more than 500 free Internet terminals, Changi Airport has five lovely and restful gardens, including a →

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