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Souvenir Sunday: Finnair flight attendants share their stories

10/07/12

Has anything unusual or humorous happened to Finnair flight attendants? Looks like we’ll have to get a copy of Airborne: Tales From A Thousand And One Flights, to find out. The book is billed as “a collection of true stories written by customer service professionals of the sky” and appears to be filled with stories →

Souvenir Sunday: out of this world ice-packs

09/30/12

Found in the gift shop at Seattle’s Museum of Flight: →

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Souvenir Sunday all week long

09/26/12

Earlier this week, I shared a few of the tacky souvenirs I was going to feature in my NBC News Travel article about Doug Lansky’s new book, “Crap Souvenirs.” Here’s the full story, as well as more photos of some kooky souvenirs. As the author of the popular “Signspotting” series of books chronicling weird and →

Souvenir Sunday: Doug Lansky’s “Crap Souvenirs”

09/23/12

Doug Lansky’s new book – Crap Souvenirs – contains more than 150 photos of the sort of offbeat and wacky souvenirs you might find in gifts shops at airports and on the street surrounding major attractions such as the Vatican in Rome and the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Things like a small-scale replica of Mt. →

Souvenir Sunday: Saints stuff at New Orleans Airport

09/16/12

If you’re a sports fan – or know one – then you’ll be pleased to know that there’s now a New Orleans Saints store at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport. The shop is stocked with licensed merchandise, apparel and collectibles for the Super Bowl XLVII Champions and is located pre-security in the East Lobby →

Souvenir Sunday: saved by Handy

09/09/12

At the end of August, I was thrilled to get to ride along on a delivery flight of a new Cathay Pacific 777 airplane from the Boeing plant in Everett, WA to Hong Kong. Unfortunately, my camera busted on the way. I took a few photos of the take-off festivities and the in-flight activities →

Souvenir Sunday at Hong Kong International Airport

09/02/12

I had two days to spend in Hong Kong this week and spent one of them touring Hong Kong International Airport. There’s an entire shopping mall in Terminal 2, with a Disney store and pretty much every shop you’d see in an upscale mall in any city. Terminal 1 has many of the same sort →

Souvenir Sunday at McCarran Int’l Airport

08/19/12

It’s Souvenir Sunday, the day StuckatTheAirport.com looks at fun and inexpensive gifts for sale in airport gift shops. This week’s souvenirs comes from McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, where you can not only gamble (there are gaming machines throughout the airport), but find a a gambling-themed souvenir in just about every gift shop. →

Las Vegas

Souvenir Sunday: snow globes and pet tornadoes

07/22/12

(courtesy Museum of the Modern Snow Globe) A lot of souvenir hunters were delighted when the Transportation Security Administration announced that, by mid-August, snow globes would once again be permitted in carry-on bags at all airport security checkpoints. “Snow globes that appear to contain less than 3.4 ounces (approximately tennis ball size) will be permitted →

Souvenir Sunday at South Korea’s Incheon Airport

07/01/12

Each Sunday is Souvenir Sunday here at StuckatTheAirport.com, a day to look at some of the fun and inexpensive items you can find in gift shops at airports. This week’s treasures come from Ross Reynolds (my husband), who found these cute little dolls for sale in South Korea’s Incheon International Airport . He didn’t buy →

Stuck at the Airport

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