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When you’re stuck at the airport think: What would Dr. Seuss do?

03/02/09

Photo courtesy the Springfield Museum Today, March 2nd, is the birthday of Theodor Geisel, the author and illustrator better known to all of us as Dr. Seuss. In addition to classics such as “The Cat in the Hat” and “Green Eggs and Ham,” he wrote the life/travel advice poem titled “Oh! The Places you’ll go!,” →

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Sweet Baby James to the rescue at JFK

01/24/09

I love this story and now I love James Taylor (even more). According to this story, officers (and I bet they’ll turn out to be fake officers – or soon-to-be unemployed officers) at JFK airport convinced a tourist to give her $140 iPod to a cab driver in lieu of payment for the $49 fare →

Air France Pope-plane

09/12/08

The Pope has popped over to France to commemorate the 150th anniversary of St. Bernadette’s vision of the Virgin Mary. Lots of folks are pretty excited about this trip, including the folks at Air France. That’s because on Saturday and Monday (September 13th and 15th, 2008) Air France will be transporting Pope Benedict XVI to →

The Beatles, Jimmy Durante and more … at JFK

08/26/08

The New York Times has a great slideshow celebrating the earliest days of John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK). Built on “six square miles of swampy sand, part of it the site of a once-fashionable golf course…” in its first few years the airport welcomed everyone from Gregory Peck and Pope Paul VI to, of →

Jerry Lewis, guns, and deer

07/30/08

Actor and comedian Jerry Lewis was on his way to Detroit last Friday when he got nabbed at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas for having a gun in his carry-on baggage. Maybe he was really on his way to Flint. According to the Flint Journal, at Flint’s Bishop International Airport recently a “wayward shot” →

Jay Leno’s take on the naked American Airlines guy

07/21/08

I’m not sure how Terry Maxon and the folks at the Airline Biz blog do it. But long before the Tonight Show airs out west, they’ve got the (very funny) text of Jay Leno’s take on the American Airlines flight that had to make an emergency landing because a guy took off all his clothes →

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Politics at the airport?

05/07/08

A while back I wrote a column for USATODAY.com about airports that use celebrity voices to welcome visitors and remind them of security regulations. Now it seems that Colorado’s Aspen/Pitkin County Airport is considering pulling one of its celebrity announcements – at least until the presidential campaign is over. According to the Associated Press, someone →

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