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Souvenir Sunday: Amelia Earhart luggage

03/14/10
Earlier this week, while waiting for Captain Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger’s presentation at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, I spent some time in the Amelia Earhart exhibit.  And while I don’t think I’ll take up flying my own plane anytime soon, I keep thinking about getting some new luggage. Amelia Earhart endorsed a long →

Capt. Sullenberger and Amelia Earhart at the Museum of Flight

03/09/10
Monday evening I was fortunate to be in the audience at Seattle’s Museum of Flight for a  presentation by the recently retired Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, the now-legendary pilot of US Airways Flight 1549 who was able to successfully land a plane in New York City’s Hudson River. He began the evening by showing the NTSB’s →

Connection conundrum: SFO or LAX?

03/01/10
If you’re traveling to or from New Zealand or Australia, you’ll have a make a connection in California at either LAX or SFO. San Francisco would like you to make your connection through San Francisco International Airport (SFO) and has kicked off the “I Wanna Go Through SFO” campaign to urge folks to consciously make →

Tidbits for Travelers: Music at MIA, Power at SAN, celebrities at ORH

09/05/09
MUSIC AT MIA If you’re traveling through Miami International Airport (MIA) between now and September 21 and have some time to hang around, head on over to the South Terminal.  Afternoons, between 1 and 4 pm, there will be a steel drum band on Concourse H and piano music in the food court between Concourses →

Pussycat Dolls visit Changi Airport

06/04/09
Not a big Pussycat Dolls fan myself, but this was probably a scene: The Pussycat Dolls (PCD to their fans…), in Singapore as part of their current tour, did a meet-and-greet event at Changi Airport on Wednesday, greeting fans and taking pictures with them. The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore and Changi Airport apparently host →

Montreal celebrates 40th anniversary of John and Yoko’s bed-in for peace

06/02/09
Officially, I went to Montréal to report on what airport representatives are talking about at their annual marketing and communications conference.  And I will. But today, I’m hanging out at the hotel called Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth, which hosted John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s bed-in for peace forty years ago. “JoYoko,” as the concierge up →

Penn & Teller take on the TSA

05/14/09
Like many travelers, the infamous, eccentric, libertarian-leaning magicians known as Penn & Teller have a gripe with airport security. Not with the people who work for the TSA, but with the idea OF the TSA. And while the average traveler can just complain about the security checkpoint experience, Penn & Teller make it part of →
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