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Parkour Championship at Düsseldorf International Airport

06/07/10
If you’re going to get stuck at a German airport, try to make it Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) on the first Sunday of the month. That’s when DUS has is its “Airlebnis” (air-experience) events and if you were there yesterday, Sunday, June 6, 2010, you would have seen athletes and visitors literally bouncing off the […]

Jazz in the Atrium series at Atlanta airport

05/12/10
(The Eldridge Simms Jazz Quintet during 2009 Jazz in the Atrium music series. Photo courtesy ATL) The 33rd annual Atlanta Jazz Festival is taking place throughout the month of May, with a giant 2-day festival Memorial Day weekend in Piedmont Park and, for lucky travelers, two weeks of live jazz performances at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International […]

Party at Pittsburgh International Airport

05/04/10
To celebrate five years of service to Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT), Southwest Airlines will be throwing a little party at its PIT gates starting at 10 a.m. on Tuesday. Gate games and decorations are promised, but with Southwest, well, you never know quite what will happen. Even without a Southwest party, Pittsburgh Airport has a […]

Volcano closes airports; but doors are open in Denver

04/16/10
If I could fly somewhere this weekend, I’d choose Iceland for the chance to see for myself what that volcano is doing. But since the ash has caused the worst disruption in air travel since 9/11, that’s not going to happen. Photo courtesy Craig Murphy, via Flickr OK, so Iceland, and pretty much everyplace else […]

Landmarks, hotels & airports turning off lights for Earth Hour

03/26/10
(courtesy: Jorge Sierra / WWF-Spain) Attention travelers and aliens assigned to monitor our planet from outer space: you may notice major landmarks, tourist attractions, and large areas of many cities and towns around the world going dark for an hour on March 27. Do not be alarmed. It’s just Earth Hour, a rolling, global black-out […]

Tidbits for travelers: art & massages at Schiphol, more music in Austin

03/18/10
Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport has more than 100 shops, an equal number of cafes, pubs and restaurants, casinos, a Yotel, a great art collection and a branch of the Rijksmuseum that’s currently showing the Sunny Skies exhibition, featuring nine works by Dutch 17th century landscape artists inspired by the Italian landscape. Speaking of inspiration, Schiphol’s Cone […]

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 […]
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