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Souvenir Sunday: musical treats at Austin-Bergstrom Int’l Airport

04/11/10
Nancy Coplin, the music coordinator at the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, has an enviable and very important job.  The airport has four performance venues and eleven live concerts each week and she’s the one in charge of the schedule. In Austin, of course, you can’t spit without hitting a Grammy-winner or two, so when Nancy drops →

Airport smackdown: it’s “gloves off” when dissing rivals

03/17/10
My “At the Airport” column for USAToday.com this week – Gloves are off as airports go after their rivals in ads – is about airports rolling out funny, “in your face” campaigns. In a video about San Francisco International Airport, Mayor Gavin Newsom has a cameo. So do Marion and Vivian Brown, the kooky 83 →

SXSW Music Festival at Austin Bergstrom International Airport

03/16/10
Heading to the SXSW music festival? There’s no need to wait until you’re right in town to start enjoying the music. The Austin Bergstrom International Airport, which has live music year-round, is hosting the first sanctioned performances of the music conference. The kick-off performance takes place today, Tuesday March 16th, 2010 at 1 pm with →

Dance at ORD & MDW, drop your pants at PHL

03/12/10
Ready for St. Patrick’s Day festivities? The Chicago airports are. Today, Friday, March 12, Irish dancers from the Trinity Academy will perform at both O’Hare International Airport (ORD) and at Midway International Airport (MDW). Performances will be 3 to 5 p.m. at O’Hare (in Terminals 1, 2, 3, and 5) and at Midway in Concourse →

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 →

Millionaire at Reno-Tahoe Airport and fun with lost baggage

02/22/10
According to recently released statistics from the Department of Transportation (DOT),  airlines appear to be getting better at keeping track of checked bags.  Plenty of bags still go missing. And some bags do get stolen.  But according to the Department of Transportation’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), in 2009 the mishandled bag rate was →

Singapore’s Changi Airport celebrates Year of the Tiger

02/12/10
The Chinese New Year will be celebrated this Sunday and Singapore’s Changi Airport is ready with giant displays to welcome in the Year of the Tiger: Changi Airport also opened up an Aviation Gallery in Terminal 2, with loads of information stations, interactive kiosks, and 600 tiny airplanes hanging from the ceiling. Here’s a “please-touch” →

World’s first airport indoor ski jump at Düsseldorf International Airport ski jump

01/28/10
Is this too much fun for an airport? This past December, right before Christmas, Germany’s Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) hosted a circus competition in the shopping arcade with contortionists,  jugglers and trapeze artists. Now comes word that on February 6th and 7th, 2010, the airport shopping arcade will be the site of the world’s first →
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