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Places we want to go. Things we want to do.

12/15/25

Lots of people are taking this week to look back at some of their favorite adventures from the past year. And we will too. But let’s start the week with a round-up of some of the “want” activities and destinations we’ve been keeping in our inbox. A while back we spent 10 days in South →

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Elves at the Louisville Airport + Free Covid tests at SEA+ JetBlue’s first lounge

12/11/25

Pixie Pilot & Jingle Jet making merry at Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport Airports around the country go all out during the holiday season with decorations, live music, visits from Santa and other festive events. At Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport (SDF), the activities include the adorable antics of Pixie Pilot and Jingle Jet, a →

Wear your airport socks on National Sock Day

12/03/25

Today, December 4, is National Sock Day and a great time to celebrate some of the airpor-themed socks we’ve spotted. Let us know which pairs we’ve missed. Reno-Tahoe International Airport (RNO) sent us these today. Bonus: here are socks from Condor Airlines →

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Leave your letter to Santa at the airport post box

11/30/25

It started before Thanksgiving, but now pretty much every airport you pass through is decorated for the holidays. Many will be offering special holiday concerts and visits or photo ops with Santa, his elves and perhaps some reindeer. For kids (and adults….) with wish lists and letters for Santa, a few airports have already set →

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Holiday travel: lots of plans, tight budgets

11/28/25

More travelers, but more couchsurfing and slimmed-down plans (This is s slightly different version of a story we prepared for NBC News online) A record number of Americans will travel this weekend, packing up their bags and hitting the road to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with family, friends and maybe some football. But travel this →

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Safe travels on Thanksgiving

11/26/25

Thanks to the LaGuardia Airport Terminal B turkey for helping us wish you a happy and safe Thanskgiving holiday. Be sure to see check in late Thursday for our holiday post about travel deals to lock in for Black Friday/Cyber Monday/Travel Tuesday. In the meantime, here are a couple of airport tidbits for you: Santa →

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Ready for Thanksgiving travel?

11/26/25

Thanks to the record number of travelers expected to travel this holiday, weather woes and the usual list of things that can go wrong with any trip, airports are likely to be zany for the next few days. Here are just some of the amenities airports are rolling out and reminding travelers about to help →

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Has the goverment shutdown ruined your holiday travel plans?

11/15/25

Air travel is working its way to ‘normal’ now that the government shutdown is over and Thanksgiving travel is about to kick into high gear. Friday’s news that the Federal Aviation Administration reduced the mandate for U.S. airlines to reduce domestic flights at 40 of the nation’s airports by 6% to 3% starting Saturday will →

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Fly safe on Halloween

10/30/25

Yesterday’s list of airports celebrating Halloween with in-terminals parties, decorations and more was just too short. Here are few more. →

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TSA donation policy + Airports & Halloween

10/29/25

Many airports, airlines and community groups have been helping out federal workers working without pay at airports by setting up food pantries and making gift cards, diapers and other basic necessitites available. Members of the public are helping out too. And, if you’re so inclined, TSA has shared this information about the proper way to →

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