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Flu shots at the airport? Yup.

09/28/11

Flu shots and other vaccinations being offered at San Diego International Airport.

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Souvenir Sunday: socks at the airport

08/07/11

Don't go barefoot at the airport security checkpoint.

Airlines alter menus in response to E coli outbreak

06/03/11

American, Lufthansa and other airlines are changing their in-flight menus from Europe in response to E. coli outbreak.

Souvenir Sunday: showers and sundries at SFO

04/03/11

SFO opens the new Terminal 2 next week, see StuckatTheAirport.com for a preview. Souvenir Sunday features Freshen Up!, a place to shower at SFO.

Does airplane air make you sick?

02/18/11

Does airplane air make you sick? No, but the germs on the airplanes will.

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Get your flu shot at the airport

11/11/10

Flu shots are being offered at 23 airports this year. So travelers can their flu shots on the fly.

At German airports, bees are the canaries

06/29/10

(Courtesy Field Museum, via Flickr Creative Commons) According to a story by Tanya Mohn in the New York Times, Düsseldorf International Airport and seven other airports in Germany are using bees as ‘biodetectives.’ Clues about the air quality around each airport show up in the honey. “The first batch of this year’s harvested honey from […]

Vintage airline air sickness bags

04/24/10

Reading back through the Delta Air Lines blog this week I noticed an entertaining entry from archives manager Marie Force: an airsickness bag from the mid-1960s that has a gin rummy scoreboard on one side: And an aviation quiz on the other! That led me to visit the Air Sickness Bag Virtual Museum, of course, […]

Tidbits for travelers: Free trips and free flu shots

02/18/10

Doesn’t Paris sound good right about now? Then sign up to win a pair of tickets (from Pittsburgh) to Paris – courtesy of Pittsburgh’s WHIRL Magazine, Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) and Delta Air Lines, Entries will be accepted through May 7, 2010. But why wait? Lufthansa Airlines isn’t giving away tickets to Paris, but if […]

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