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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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Play nice at the airport

12/30/08

Jason Barger wants folks to be nicer to each other at the airport – and everywhere else – and he’s written a book that he hopes will convince people to turn off their personal auto-pilots and start paying attention to what’s going on around them. In the self-published Step Back from the Baggage Claim, Barger →

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Stept Back from the Baggage Claim

Coffee, tea or laptop privacy screen?

09/26/08

It’s icky, irritating, rude — and relatively rare — at least for now. But as in-flight Wi-Fi becomes a reality, some flight attendants, passengers and parents are worried that passengers booting up pornography, violent content, and other potentially inappropriate content on their laptops at 35,000 feet will become a real problem. Find out what travelers, →

Is Courtesy Contagious?

09/18/08

My Well Mannered Traveler column on MSNBC.com this week is all about courtesy – and the efforts to encourage it – on buses, subways, and trains. Many of the strategies public transit agencies are trying out could help air travelers get along with each other inside airports and on airplanes as well. For example, wouldn’t →

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