This red Arrow Sport, one of only one of six known to still be in existence, was built by the Arrow Aircraft Company, of Havelock, Nebraska and now hangs in the terminal at Lincoln Airport (LNK) in Nebraska.
If you stop by the airport’s customer service desk, they will give you a free red foam glider plane in honor of the Arrow Sport.
The red Arrow Sport plane hanging in our terminal has become an iconic symbol at #LNK and one many love taking photos under. Next time you #FlyLNK stop by our Customer Service desk and nab yourself one of our new, red foam glider planes. #FlyLocal#RedPlanepic.twitter.com/svf5y1QJP7
LNK is also celebrating Halloween with free movies and a costume contest.
On Thursday, October 14, and Friday, October 15, LNK will be featuring the movie Hocus Pocus at its outdoor movie event. There will also be a Halloween costume contest.
“On me” offers 10,000 free airline vouchers to four key Tennessee airports – Nashville, Memphis, Chattanooga, and Knoxville. All travelers have to do is purchase a 2-night stay at TennesseeOnMe.com.
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee’s budget puts aside $2.5 million to promote tourism through $250 digital gift cards from Delta Airlines, American Airlines, and Southwest Airlines for travel to Tennessee. The promotion aims to give away 10,000 digital gift cards to visitors who book a 2-night hotel stay in Nashville, Memphis, Knoxville, or Chattanooga. More than 60 hotels are participating in the promotion.
Visitors must book a 2-night minimum stay at participating hotels, including at least one night of the stay between Sunday-Wednesday.
Visitors can choose their destination city (Nashville, Memphis, Chattanooga or Knoxville), their hotel of choice in the city, and which airline voucher they prefer (Delta, American or Southwest Airlines).
Book between now and July 5 – September 15, 2021. Travel between July 11 – December 30, 2021.
All promotion reservations can be booked through www.TennesseeOnMe.com, which details FAQs, restrictions and additional information.
All hotel package reservations are pre-paid at time of booking and are non-refundable.
One airline voucher is available per hotel package (not per person). Other terms and conditions apply.
Have fun. Let’s hope more states roll out campaigns like this. And let’s hope more people in Tennessee get vaccinated.
Going skiing? Save your Alaska Airlines boarding pass
If you’ve checked the rules and restrictions and feel safe flying to a ski resort this season, keep in mind that you may be able to ski for free once you arrive.
As it does each winter, Alaska Airlines is once again partnering with a variety of ski resorts to offer free ski passes on the day of arrival to travelers who show their boarding passes and IDs. Offers and deals will vary, of course, but there are offers for ski resorts in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, and Washington.
Deals with the My Emirates Pass too
Emirates is resuming many of its flights to and through its Dubai hub and just announced it will resume non-stop service to Seattle starting February 1 and to Dallas and San Francisco, starting March 2.
Flights to/from San Francisco will operate four times weekly on Emirates’ Boeing 777-300ER. Flights to/from Seattle will operate four times weekly and flights to/from Dallas will operate three times weekly.
Emirates also announced a refreshed My Emirate Pass, which offers a wide variety of discounts and deals for travelers who show their boarding pass in over 450 restaurants, leisure destinations, and retail outlets across the UAE.
Will airlines bring back more free stuff?
The Alaska Airlines ski pass and My Emirate Pass programs have been offered before but, given the times, we’re especially glad to see they’re back.
Which makes us wonder: as airlines try to win back travelers, might we see more bonus items offered with our tickets?
Since 2000, volunteer hosts at Fort Wayne International Airport in Indiana has been welcoming arriving passengers with free individually wrapped cookies.
The cookies are made fresh by the nearby Ellison Bakery. And when the volunteers are off-duty, cookies are still available from a self-serve cookie kiosk at the security exit.
Over the years, FWA Airport has given out a lot of those free cookies.
Millions, in fact.
And on Friday, June 26 the airport had a party for the 3-millionth free cookie.
The guests of honor? An unsuspecting family arriving on a flight from Tampa. In addition to the free milestone cookie, their prizes include a basket of gifts from the airport, a free roundtrip ticket for 2 on Allegiant Air, and lots more cookies from Ellison Bakery. Nice!
Despite a drop in air traffic that is no doubt taking a bite out of its budget, the free cookie program at Fort Wayne International Airport is not crumbling.
In fact, FWA and Ellison Bakery announced that arriving passengers will now get a free package of 7 small assorted cookies instead of just one.
Like beer? Like free beer? Ever fly through Denver International Airport?
Denver has a robust craft brewing scene and there are plenty of places to order a local or regionally brewed beer at Denver International Airport (DEN).
The airport even has a Beer Passport that can earn you a free pint.
Here’s how it works:
Order a beer at each of the four Colorado breweries in the airport.
Get your Beer Passport stamped at each brewery
Once you have all four stamps, redeem the passport for a free pint of beer at any of these participating breweries:
If you fly to, from or through Denver International Airport
regularly, getting four beer stamps shouldn’t be that difficult.
If you’re spending a long time at the airport before or between
flights, you can perhaps get all your beer stamps in one day.
To “play,” just pick up a Beer Passport card at any participating brewery or at any of the airport information booths, which are located pre-security and on each concourse.
After you purchase a beer at one of the participating breweries, be sure to get your Beer Passport stamp.
Once you’ve collected all four stamps, swap the passport for a free pint of beer at any of the breweries.
Jut be sure to drink those beers before April 1, 2020, when all beer passports expire.
Should we make this the Airport Amenity of the Week?
Sunday, September 29 is National Coffee Day and, starting today, bistros, cafes, donut shops, hotels and a variety of other venues will be celebrating with free coffee, discounts and deals.
Here are just some of the special offers we’ve found being offered around the country.
Free coffee
On Friday, September 27, a pop-up in
Chicago hosted by Kimpton Hotel Allegro and Allegro Coffee Roasters will be
offering complimentary cups of locally roasted coffee to guests and visitors
from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Krispy Kreme: Caffeine seekers can score both a free
small coffee and glazed donut on National Coffee Day.
On Sunday, September 29, High Brew Coffee and Whole Foods will be offering a downloadable coupon for a free can of the Austin, TX-based cold brew. Get the coupon at highbrewcoffee.com and redeem it at a Whole Foods store. (Coupon will be live on 9/29)
Participating Biggby Coffee locations around the country will be offering free hot brewed coffee (up to 24 ounces), on Sunday, September 29 as well.
Discount coffee will still get you buzzed
On Sunday, Sept 29, 7-Eleven is offering any
size coffee for $1 all day through the 7Rewards app.
Also, on Sunday, September 29, Nutella Cafe locations in New
York and Chicago) will be celebrating National Coffee Day by offering customers
Buy One (1) Drip Coffee (Regular or Large) and
get One (1) for free.
On International Coffee Day (9/29), you can receive a
free 12-ounce hot or iced coffee at GODIVA Café locations with ANY
purchase. At GODIVA Boutiques, coffee bags will be Buy 1 Get 1 50%
Off on 9/29.
Participating Dunkin’ branches will be offering a buy one hot
coffee, get on one coffee free on Sunday, September 29.
Also look for National Coffee Day deals from Coffee Bean & Tea
Leaf, Circle K, Cumberland Farms, PJ’s Coffee and Sheetz convenience stores.
It’s all part of the airport’s ‘Celebrate Cleveland’ campaign.
Today, Tuesday, September 24, from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m., animals from Cleveland Metroparks Zoo’s Professor Wylde’s Traveling Show will be at Gate C4 and Concourse A (across from the checkpoint).
On Thursday, September 26, the Cleveland Indians’ mascot – Slider – will walk the concourse handing out Malley’s Chocolates candy bars. Slider will also pose for selfies with travelers.
And on Friday, September 27, the airport is hosting an ice cream social, courtesy of Mitchell’s Ice Cream.
Mitchell’s will be handing out free scoops in front of Embers Fire & Ice Bar in the Main Terminal from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Sound like fun? We’ll give CLE’s Celebrate Cleveland party our nomination for “Airport Amenity of the Week”.
Today Alaska Airlines kicks off a campaign aimed at reducing the use of single-use plastics.
The secret weapon in
the plan? You.
The airline’s #FillBeforeYouFly
initiative is asking passengers to pitch in to reduce the use of single-use plastics
inflight by bring their own water bottle and filling it up at the airport before
they board.
To kick off the campaign,
today Alaska will be giving out complimentary reusable water bottles in all 7 Alaska Airlines’ lounges and on select flights leaving
Seattle and San Francisco International Airports.
In addition, the airline says it will plant a tree for
every passenger who brings a pre-filled water bottle onto their flight and
posts a photo to social media tagging @AlaskaAir with the hashtag
#FillBeforeYouFly.
“Our ultimate goal is
to work together with our guests and employees to improve the health of our
water by reducing plastic use,” said Diana Birkett
Rakow, Alaska Airlines’ vice president of external relations. ““Land, water, and animals are incredibly
special parts of the places we live and fly – and we’re in this for the long
term.”
Alaska estimates that
if just 10% of its passengers bring their own pre-filled water bottle when they
fly and choose reusables, it could save more than 700,000 plastic water bottles
and 4 million plastic cups per year.
This isn’t Alaska Airline’s
first step towards helping to save the planet: in 2018, Alaska became the first
airline to replace single-use, plastic stir straws and citrus picks with
sustainable alternatives and the airline recently
replaced bottled beer with aluminum cans, which are lighter and easier to
recycle.
Museums are great, but admission fees can sometimes make you think twice about checking out the exhibitions.
That’s why we love free museum days such as the Museums on Us program sponsored by Bank of America.
The program offers free general admission at more than 225 museums nationwide during the first full weekend of each month to anyone with a Bank of America, Merill Lynch or U.S. Trust credit or debit card.
This weekend, the first full weekend in September, you can get free admission in Chicago at the Alder Planetarium and the Art Institute of Chicago; in Atlanta at the Atlanta History Center and the High Museum of Art; and in San Francisco at the de Young Museum.
Check out the full list of museums offering free admission this weekend here.
Another year-round free entry program to keep in mind is the Every Kid Outdoors Program.
The program provides fourth graders with free, multi-use vouchers to national parks, wildlife refuges, marine sanctuaries, and forests and is a collaboration between the Department of the Interior, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and U.S. Forest Service.
The bonus here is that because fourth graders aren’t likely to drive themselves to these sites, the vouchers not only provide free entry for fourth graders, but to all children under 16 in a group and up to three accompanying adults – or an entire car for drive-in parks.
Find details about getting the pass here. Vouchers are
valid now through August 31, 2020.
Airports across the country will be marking Mother’s Day with complimentary flowers, music and more.
Today between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. in the post-security Great Hall at Los Angeles International Airport, the Mother’s Day celebration will include a photo booth, complimentary wooden roses, and appearances by some of the pups from the Pets Unstressing Passengers (PUPs) program.
And, as they have for many years, this weekend volunteers at Florida’s Jacksonville International Airport will likely be handing out flowers to arriving moms and those waiting for their moms.
We’ll add more Mother’s Day activities as they roll in.
Delta Air Lines
rolling out free in-flight WiFI
Starting May 13, Delta Air Lines is kicking off a
much-welcome two-week pilot program to offer free in-flight Wi-Fi in all cabins
on 55 short, media and long-haul flights.
The carrier says this is the first step towards offering complimentary
Wi-Fi for everyone, all the time.
“Customers are accustomed to having access to free Wi-Fi during nearly every other aspect of their journey, and Delta believes it should be free when flying, too,” said Ekrem Dimbiloglu, Director of Onboard Product in a statement. “Testing will be key to getting this highly complex program right – this takes a lot more creativity, investment and planning to bring to life than a simple flip of a switch.”
The free
Wi-Fi service won’t support content streaming, but will let passengers browse,
email, shop, message, and engage with social media for free.
Delta’s Wi-Fi for purchase
and free mobile messaging will remain available throughout the test.
