Festivals

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Headless chickens, rotten tomatoes and other reasons to party

04/02/10
Friends, family and, yes, strangers, often remind me that there’s a whole world out there beyond airports.  They’re right. And luckily that world is quite wacky.   Especially if you find yourself at one of the offbeat festivals or events I rounded up this week for a “Wacky Festivals” slide-show on msnbc.com. (Courtesy Fruita Tourism) In →

Singapore’s Changi Airport celebrates Year of the Tiger

02/12/10
The Chinese New Year will be celebrated this Sunday and Singapore’s Changi Airport is ready with giant displays to welcome in the Year of the Tiger: Changi Airport also opened up an Aviation Gallery in Terminal 2, with loads of information stations, interactive kiosks, and 600 tiny airplanes hanging from the ceiling. Here’s a “please-touch” →

World’s first airport indoor ski jump at Düsseldorf International Airport ski jump

01/28/10
Is this too much fun for an airport? This past December, right before Christmas, Germany’s Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) hosted a circus competition in the shopping arcade with contortionists,  jugglers and trapeze artists. Now comes word that on February 6th and 7th, 2010, the airport shopping arcade will be the site of the world’s first →

Cute alert at PIT, IAD and DCA airports

12/01/09
Many airports are already all gussied up for the holidays, and over the next few days loads more will join in. Students from the District of Columbia, Virginia and Maryland will celebrate the annual tree-trimming celebration at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and Washington Dulles International Airport by decorating trees with “Winter Wonderland-themed ornaments they →

Dia de Muertos celebration at Kelowna International Airport

10/26/09
Kelowna International Airport (YLW) is a small(ish) airport in British Columbia, Canada that serves about one million passengers a year.   It’s about an hour from Vancouver, with a kid’s play area, some intriguing art and history exhibits and, starting November 1st, 2009, non-stop flights to Mexico. To help spread the word, the airport is having →

Let’s all go to the movies

03/03/09
It would be great if we could watch movies – cartoons, short subjects, mini-docs, etc. – at the airport.  For free (of course).  Given how long we all spend at airports these days, there’s often time to watch full-length features as well. Instead, we often watch films in-flight.  And as I wrote here a while →
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