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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 […]

Fool at the pool. Don’t be that person.

07/31/09

If you’re lucky enough to go somewhere this summer, even if it’s just to an airport hotel, chances are there will be a pool in the picture. Do you know what to do when you’re there? It seems like a lot of folks don’t. That’s why my Well-Mannered Traveler column on MSNBC.com this week is […]

Tidbits for travelers: Jack Daniel’s at IAH, messy passengers, and some creepy people

07/18/09

Jack Daniel’s at IAH Don’t know how I missed this in real time, but in June (2009), Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) rolled out the black and white carpet to welcome the world’s first Jack Daniel’s-themed airport store. Located in Terminal D, near Gate 6, the duty free/retail shop is stocked with shirts, hats […]

Would you be Facebook friends with your airport?

06/04/09

Would you be Facebook friends with your airport? That’s the question I posed in my Well Mannered Traveler column on MSNBC.com today after attending an airport conference where airport reps talked about how to improve customer service. Not included in the column was the fast growing list of airports using Twitter to communicate with travelers. […]

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Alanis Morissette clips toenails on airplane

03/20/09

Celebrities are joining in to promote Earth Hour, March 28th, and Alanis Morissette – and her toenails – star in this PSA about the event. I include it here on the Stuck at the Airport blog because, to promote the big “turn off” day, Morissette is shown clipping her toenails in her airplane seat – […]

Exit-row etiquette: should you have a license to sit there?

03/12/09

Who doesn’t enjoy being seated in the exit row? The seats assure cramped passengers extra inches of legroom and are an airplane’s most coveted feature. How do get one of those seats? They’re usually assigned to top-tier frequent fliers, passengers who have paid an extra fee, those who ask nicely or folks who are simply […]

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Traveling with pets: JetBlue’s JetPaws program

01/27/09

While some airlines are making it harder to travel with your pet, JetBlue Airways is promoting its pet-friendliness. The airline’s JetPaws pet program offers pets and their people a free, downloadable e-booklet highlighting pet-friendly hotels, restaurants, parks and animal hospitals in some of JetBlue’s destination cities and a list of Travel Petiquette guidelines, which outline […]

Yin-yang of air travel

01/02/09

Just as we were feeling all warm and fuzzy about the story of the Northwest flight from Amsterdam to Boston that arrived with an extra passenger due to the on-board birth of a baby, comes word that in Washington, D.C. Air Tran removed a Muslim family of nine from a flight headed from Reagan National […]

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