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On the airplane: do you have the right to recline?

10/22/11

Do you have the right to recline your seat on an airplane? →

What are your rights regarding the Overhead Bin?

07/02/11

At msnbc.com’s Overhead Bin blog, I’ve been tracking down answers to a big question each week. This week: What to do about Overhead Bin hogs. We’ve all seen them on airplanes: Fellow passengers who put their stuff in an overhead bin toward the front of the plane before sneaking off to an assigned seat way →

5 things not to do on an airplane

06/23/11

Gross things not to do on an airplane. →

Proper flying attire: baggy pants or hotpants?

06/22/11

Hotpants-wearing man and saggy-pants-wearing student fuel debate about the rights of passengers at airports and on airplanes. →

Dusseldorf Airport’s far-out food festival

07/02/10

On the first Sunday of each month you’ll find a party or some sort of unusual event going on in the vast public lobby area of Dusseldorf International Airport (DUS). Last Christmas it was a circus, complete with aerialists and clowns. Last month, the airport was the site of the 2010 German’s best parkour championship. →

Why didn’t the helihome ever catch on?

06/01/10

I spent a few hours last week at the RV Museum and Hall of Fame in Elkhart, Indiana, where curator and RV historian Al Hesselbart was kind enough to give me a personal tour of the collection and share some of his RV stories and photos. I’ll be including some of the photos in my →

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 →

Airports discover courtesy can help the bottom line.

02/19/10

Noticed some extra nice lately? For airport employees around the country, courtesy and empathy are becoming part of the basic job description. Not just because those are nice traits in workers, but because in these belt-tightening times, airports are hoping better customer service can help shore up the bottom line. In my Well Mannered Traveler →

Greetings from New Zealand’s Auckland Airport

10/22/09

First impressions are important, especially if you’re a city and you’d like folks who are just passing through to come back and stay awhile. So you’d think every city would want its airport – its front door – to be all pretty and nice. Like, say, Auckland Airport. Check out what greets visitors arriving on →

Air New Zealand Matchmaking Party – kisses all around

10/16/09

Last night, acting, looking, and in a few cases smelling like a bunch of junior high kids embarking on their first prom, about a hundred of the Americans who flew to Auckland on Air New Zealand’s Matchmaking Flight joined 150 nattily-dressed Kiwis for the Great Matchmaking Party. As billed, it was a night of inter-hemisphere →

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