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Airports, airlines mourn the passing of Her Majesty the Queen

09/08/22

Gathering up videos and tweets of airports and airlines remembering encounters with Queen Elizabeth II, who died September 8, 2022, at age 96. Let us know what we’ve missed. And, because it is so charming, here is Queen Elizabeth II’s best role ever. →

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Godzilla and A Trip to the Moon

01/25/22

MoPOP, Seattle’s Museum of Popular Culture, has a new batch of inductees into its Science Fiction + Fantasy Hall of Fame. Travelers and film fans will be pleased to see that A Trip to the Moon, the 1902 science fiction film by George Méliès, is on the list this year. The movie takes inspiration from →

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Airports (and a museum) remember Charlie Watts

08/24/21

The Rolling Stones’ drummer, Charlie Watts, died on Tuesday and several airports, including Philadelphia International Airport and Dublin Airport – and Seattle’s Museum of Flight – went into their archives to share photos. →

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Come Fly With Me: Book Features Celebs in Transit

04/12/21

Have you ever spotted a celebrity in the airport or on your flight during your travels? It’s a bit of a thrill, right? A new book coming out from Rizzoli called Come Fly With Me: Flying in Style, is filled with paparazzi-taken images of actors, rock stars, and others coming and going from airports around →

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At Miami Airport: The Beatles, Bob Hope, Ava Gardner & more

08/05/17

Miami International Airport has shared the full-length reels of vintage film clips now showing at the airport that include Liberace, The Beatles, Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Roosevelt, Sylvester Stallone and others arriving at the airport. Not together, of course. →

Heathrow’s photographer snapped them all

06/21/16

Heathrow Airport is celebrating its 70th anniversary by telling great stories about some of people who work there and some of the things that happened there. Today they've shared a film about Dennis Stone, who has been a photographer at Heathrow for 70 years. Check out his celebrity snaps! →

EVA’s Hello Kitty jet lands in Houston

06/20/15

With a great deal of fanfare and classic Hello Kitty cuteness, EVA Air’s brand-new, specially painted Boeing 777-300ER landed at Houston’s Bush Intercontinental Airport on Friday, June 19, 2015, with the carrier’s Chairman KW Chang serving as captain. Named the Hello Kitty Shining Star Jet, the plane’s livery features Little Twin Stars Kiki and Lala, →

Listen to the history of Shannon Airport

04/20/14

Listen to the history of Shannon Airport →

I’m on a boat

05/18/13

“I’m on a boat. No, it’s a ship. And we will be at the dock soon.” That’s what I kept telling myself during what I could not believe was an almost day-long bout of seasickness on a less than 48-hour cruise on the Celebrity Solstice from Seattle to …. nowhere. The waters were calm. The →

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Fun, photo-rich timeline celebrates Air Canada’s 75th birthday

09/11/12

What do Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Louis Armstrong, Chubby Checker, Warren Beatty, Peter Fonda, Ronald Reagan and Bob Hope all have in common? They were all passengers on Air Canada or its predecessor, Trans Canada Air Lines (TCA), sometime during the past 75 years. As part of a slew of activities to mark its 75th →

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