The Calgary Stampede is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, and to mark the occasion Calgary International Airport is all gussied up in its cowboy best, including hay bales, fences, painted windows and an almost life-size, 880-pound, all chocolate bull made by Chocolaterie Bernard Callebaut. The airport hopes to shellac the bull so it can […]
Chicago’s O’Hare and Midway International Airports and Miami International Airport are among the airports that have some fun – and free – 4th of July activities planned for passengers this week. In Chicago, there’s music, free flags and free lemonade: Passengers traveling through O’Hare and Midway on Tuesday, July 2, will be entertained with a […]
I’ve had a lot of great nominations for this week’s airport amenity of the week. But I have to give the nod to the folks at Miami International Airport who have scheduled a fun line-up of activities for the Father’s Day weekend. Top among them: bongo lessons. On Saturday, Sunday and Monday, the airport will […]
Here’s a nice twist on the (getting old now) flash mobs… a flash waltz. This dance erupted as part of a celebration for the June 5th opening of the Austrian Star Alliance Terminal at Vienna Airport.
On Tuesday, Virgin America added an 18th city, Portland, to its service network adding two daily flights from Los Angeles and two from San Francisco. As is its tradition, the airline had a fun launch event. And, as a former Portland resident, I went along for the ride as a guest. For the launch event, […]
London’s Heathrow Airport is getting ready to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jublilee and expects more than 780,000 passengers to fly into town for the festivities between now and June 6th. To set the scene, the airport painted a runway with a giant Union Jack flag and the image of the queen: As passengers arrive, they’ll […]
The Calgary Stampede is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, and to mark the occasion Calgary International Airport is all gussied up in its cowboy best, including hay bales, fences, painted windows and an almost life-size, 880-pound, all chocolate bull made by Chocolaterie Bernard Callebaut. The airport hopes to shellac the bull so it can […]
Chicago’s O’Hare and Midway International Airports and Miami International Airport are among the airports that have some fun – and free – 4th of July activities planned for passengers this week. In Chicago, there’s music, free flags and free lemonade: Passengers traveling through O’Hare and Midway on Tuesday, July 2, will be entertained with a […]
I’ve had a lot of great nominations for this week’s airport amenity of the week. But I have to give the nod to the folks at Miami International Airport who have scheduled a fun line-up of activities for the Father’s Day weekend. Top among them: bongo lessons. On Saturday, Sunday and Monday, the airport will […]
Here’s a nice twist on the (getting old now) flash mobs… a flash waltz. This dance erupted as part of a celebration for the June 5th opening of the Austrian Star Alliance Terminal at Vienna Airport.
On Tuesday, Virgin America added an 18th city, Portland, to its service network adding two daily flights from Los Angeles and two from San Francisco. As is its tradition, the airline had a fun launch event. And, as a former Portland resident, I went along for the ride as a guest. For the launch event, […]
London’s Heathrow Airport is getting ready to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jublilee and expects more than 780,000 passengers to fly into town for the festivities between now and June 6th. To set the scene, the airport painted a runway with a giant Union Jack flag and the image of the queen: As passengers arrive, they’ll […]
There’s been a lot of coverage of NATO-related activity in Chicago, but not much about the role O’Hare Airport has played in the summit. So the folks at the airport tallied up some of NATO-related numbers relating to the arrivals of world leaders, international delegations and foreign press: Number of Flight Arrivals: O’Hare private flight […]