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Delta Air Lines’ new in-flight safety video is a hoot

12/05/12

This new Delta Air Lines in-flight safety video is fun. And the pop-up version is educational. And look – there’s Deltalina. →

Travel Tidbits: Power, art and blades

11/22/12

Alaska Airlines has installed 200 extra electrical outlets/USB ports at its gates in Anchorage, Portland and Seattle to match the power outlets in its gate areas in Terminal 6 at Los Angeles International Airport and at Sacramento, San Francisco and San Jose airports. Portland International Airport has a new printmaking exhibit titled “Cut & Print” →

Flying Tigers, Ducky deliveries found in airline timetables.

11/08/12

It’s too bad I found the Airline Timetable Images website so late in the day. Well, perhaps it was a good thing. Because I’ve already spent way too much time scrolling through the images. Here are just a few samples of what I found: →

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Vintage airline timetables

Air New Zealand’s new Hobbit-themed safety video

10/31/12

Still like the Bare Essentials video best, but this new Air New Zealand Hobbit-themed safety video is adorable. →

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Travel superstitions

10/14/12

Are you superstitious about things relating to travel? Ever since the bronze bust of Abraham Lincoln was placed outside the tomb holding his remains at Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, Ill., people have been rubbing the nose for good luck. “We know presidential candidates Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan and Bob Dole rubbed the nose,” →

Earthscapes featured on newest Forever stamps

10/02/12

It’s National Stamp Collecting Month and a good time to buy the newest set of Forever stamps, which bear enticing images of natural, agricultural and urban landscapes on earth taken from up above in ultra lights, airplanes and satellites. Many of the images will look familiar to anyone who has looked down from the window →

“Operation Last Call” nabs 18 who nipped 100,000 nips at JFK Airport

09/12/12

In one of those ‘only in New York’ stories, on Wednesday, the Queens District Attorney announced that 18 airport workers – fifteen present and former truck drivers employed by LSG Sky Chefs, the food and beverage subcontractor for American Airlines, along with several security guards, were arrested and charged in connection with the theft of →

Airport as circus tent

08/21/12

Sometimes, airports are like circuses. In a good way. BuskerFest is taking place in Toronto this week and the event kicked off on Monday with a mini-busker fest at Canada’s Toronto Pearson International Airport. Here are some of the fun performances passengers were treated to. →

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Airports in London & Miami get Olympics fever

07/25/12

Miami International Airport is saluting the Olympics with some fun events and promotions from Friday, July 27th through Monday, July 30th. While a DJ spins tunes from around the world, passengers will be able to: Get a picture taken on a winner’s podium and take home a souvenir postcard; Win a gold, silver or bronze →

Does that airport look familiar? Look again.

07/10/12

I like to think I can identify the airports featured in movies and on television. And while McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas is easy to spot, I have to admit, I’m often stumped. Now I know why. In a fun article in the New York Times titled “In Hollywood, Flights of Fancy,” Christine Negroni →

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