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Souvenir Sunday at Spokane Int’l Airport

07/25/10
Traffic was slow heading into Spokane International Airport on Friday because most drivers had their eyes on the sky. I don’t blame them: the USAF Thunderbirds and other military flight demonstration teams were practicing for this weekend’s Skyfest 2010 at Fairchild Air Force Base. Inside the airport, flights were delayed while practice flights took place. →

Tidbits for travelers: Free stuff at Vancouver Airport; fresh art at Tucson Airport

07/16/10
If you have a choice about when to travel to or through Vancouver International Airport (YVR) this summer, choose a Friday. YVR is entertaining pretty much anytime, but this summer, the airport is throwing Take Off Friday parties with face painting, DJ’s, and free treats and samples from airport shops such as Daniel Le Chocolate →

Kid Bands return to Austin-Bergstrom Airport (AUS)

07/14/10
Stop by any weekday at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport and chances are you’ll hear some really great local music. Austin is just chock full of great musicians (“You can’t spit without hitting a Grammy winner” is how someone once explained it to me) and the airport takes advantage of that with four post-security performance spaces and →

Free Wi-Fi & fresh art at Philadelphia Int’l Airport

07/06/10
Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) has kicked off its summer-long “Just Plane Fun” program and well, it looks like fun. Last week, just in time for the busy 4th of July holiday travel weekend, PHL announced that the airport-wide Wi-Fi service would now be free. Now that’s fun! This week? Well, there’s not much that can →

Free classical concert at Orlando Airport; free terminal tour at San Jose Airport

06/21/10
As part of its Liberty Weekend festivities, the Orlando International Airport (MCO) will present a free concert by the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra. The concert will take place at 8 pm, on Saturday June 26, 2010 in the atrium of the Hyatt Regency Hotel, which doubles as the public lobby area for gates 60 to 129.  →

Parkour Championship at Düsseldorf International Airport

06/07/10
If you’re going to get stuck at a German airport, try to make it Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) on the first Sunday of the month. That’s when DUS has is its “Airlebnis” (air-experience) events and if you were there yesterday, Sunday, June 6, 2010, you would have seen athletes and visitors literally bouncing off the →

Schiphol getting world’s first airport library

05/22/10
(Strahov Monastery library, Prague. Photos courtesy Curious Expeditions , via Flickr) Over the years I’ve heard from one or two US airports that were toying with the idea of letting their local library have a cart somewhere in the terminal where travelers could check out and return library books. But so far, it seems nothing →

Jazz in the Atrium series at Atlanta airport

05/12/10
(The Eldridge Simms Jazz Quintet during 2009 Jazz in the Atrium music series. Photo courtesy ATL) The 33rd annual Atlanta Jazz Festival is taking place throughout the month of May, with a giant 2-day festival Memorial Day weekend in Piedmont Park and, for lucky travelers, two weeks of live jazz performances at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International →

Party at Pittsburgh International Airport

05/04/10
To celebrate five years of service to Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT), Southwest Airlines will be throwing a little party at its PIT gates starting at 10 a.m. on Tuesday. Gate games and decorations are promised, but with Southwest, well, you never know quite what will happen. Even without a Southwest party, Pittsburgh Airport has a →
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