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Get ready to “Apolo-ize” yourself at SEA and PDX

02/02/10
Are you getting excited about the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver? The folks at Alaska Airlines are. Today (Tuesday, February 2, 2010), airline representatives will be at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) and Portland International Airport (PDX) asking passengers to help cheer on speed skater and Pacific Northwest native Apolo Ohno by “Apolo-izing” themselves with free […]

Love the layover: straight to the moon from Düsseldorf Airport

01/29/10
Next weekend, February 6 and 7, 2010, visitors to the Düsseldorf International Airport will be entertained by skiers and snowboarders performing stunts and jumps on a 130-foot long ski slope set up right in the shopping arcade of the terminal. Pretty impressive by itself, but if you’re heading to Düsseldorf to see the world’s first […]

Vancouver Int’l Airport gets ready for the 2010 Winter Olympics

01/28/10
The opening ceremonies for the 2010 Winter Olympics are just around the corner, and final details are hurriedly being worked out and set in place in downtown Vancouver, up at Whistler and at various venues and attractions throughout the region. It’s particularly exciting out at the airport. Vancouver International Airport will be the first stop […]

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 […]

Tidbits for travelers: YVR’s Olympic rings & Air New Zealand’s Skycouches

01/26/10
The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics kick off in just a few weeks and Vancouver International Airport (YVR) is getting ready to welcome more than 230,000 athletes and Olympics-bound visitors. Actually, the airport has been sprucing up for quite a while. In addition to its swanky new Observation Gallery, the airport has had these giant Olympic […]

Happy Souvenir Sunday from: McCarran Int’l Airport in Las Vegas

01/24/10
It’s Souvenir Sunday! And it’s the traditional day to unpack and look over the fun, inexpensive souvenirs we’ve picked up at airports. This week: McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas (LAS). Add a hotel and those guys trying to press nightclub advertisement cards into your hands and you’ve pretty much got the whole city experience […]

Love the layover: airport adventures on Oahu and the Big Island

01/22/10
Snowstorms, mudslides, rain, more rain, and tornadoes. Sounds like a good time for a trip to Hawaii. If you go, or just want to dream a bit about going, be sure to check out the slide-show I put together for MSNBC.com – Cheap and Offbeat Oahu – about activities that are free, cheap or bit […]

Tidbits for travelers: Free Wi-Fi, Olympic travel tips, and in-flight body-mass tax

01/20/10
We want Wi-Fi Slowly but surely airports large and small are getting with the program and making free wireless Internet access available in the terminals. The latest major airport to join the party: Boston Logan International Airport (BOS). Hooray! Packing tips from Olympic athletes Curious about what some Olympic athletes do when they’re traveling – […]

Happy Souvenir Sunday from: Vancouver International Airport

01/17/10
In February, Vancouver, B.C. will host the 2010 Winter Olympics Games and, as you might expect, everyone up there is pretty gosh darn excited. That includes the folks at Vancouver International Airport (YVR). During the course of the winter games, the airport expects to host about 230,000 Olympics-bound passengers. On March 1, the day after […]
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