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Free classical concert at Orlando Airport; free terminal tour at San Jose Airport

06/21/10

As part of its Liberty Weekend festivities, the Orlando International Airport (MCO) will present a free concert by the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra. The concert will take place at 8 pm, on Saturday June 26, 2010 in the atrium of the Hyatt Regency Hotel, which doubles as the public lobby area for gates 60 to 129. →

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 →

How to escape the middle seat. Hint: win this contest.

07/01/09

The folks at 3M Privacy Filter did a little survey and discovered – no real surprise here – that a majority of Americans would rather go to the dentist than sit in a middle seat on a full flight. To help dull the pain, the company asked business travel expert Chris McGinnis and etiquette expert →

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Ryanair asks: would you pay for toilet paper?

04/14/09

After alarming travelers with the ‘joke’ about on-board pay-toilets (don’t be surprised…), Ryanair officials asked travelers to send in their own ideas for other discretionary fees that could be charged. They did. As of today (April 14th) close to 45,000 votes have been cast. And sadly, so far more than 20,000 people have voted in →

I want these chairs at the airport!

03/11/09

The Wall Street Journal picked up a story about some cool new airline seats, Thompson Solution’s Cozy Suite, that look downright cozy, and they say Delta Air Lines has hired the chair designers to create an economy-class version of the chair. That sounds great. But wouldn’t it be great it there were banks of seats →

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Would you fly if you had to take a “tush-test?”

01/22/09

Here’s the text of my Well-Mannered Traveler column that appears this week on MSNBC.com. There’s a spirited (and somewhat disappointing) Newsvine discussion about the topic there as well. (Air Canada’s form instructs doctors on how to measure a traveler’s butt.) After fighting it for nearly a year, Canada’s major airlines finally unveiled procedures they claim →

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