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ATL Airport mural honors Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter

03/24/25

Here’s a nomination for Airport Amenity of the Week. Like the Carter Center, which shared this image, we love that the mural of President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, is now on view at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL). The mural, titled “Well Done Good and Faithful Servant, The Carters,” is by Atlanta-based artist →

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Celebrate Cheesesteak Week at PHL Airport

03/23/25

Philadelphia is famous for cheesesteak sandwiches. And Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) is marking National Cheesesteak Day, March 24, with a full week of cheesesteak events and specials in the terminals. From Monday, March 24, through Sunday, March 30, passengers traveling through the airport will find exclusive offers, cheesesteak-inspired events and, of course, Philadelphia cheesesteaks. Passengers →

Places we’re adding to our ‘go’ list

03/19/25

Transportation cartoons in NY’s Grand Central Station In celebration of the centennial of The New Yorker Magazine, the New York Transit Museum is presenting Commentary on the Commute: A Century of The New Yorker’s Transportation Cartoons from Wednesday, March 26th to October 26, 2005. The free exhibit, in the Transit Museum’s Grand Central Gallery & →

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Airports ready for Valentine’s Day. Are you?

02/11/25

Are you ready for Valentine’s Day? Many airports are. And you should too. The Clark County Clerk’s Offices is already set up at Harry Reid International Airport (LAS) in Las Vegas offering marriage licenses and vow renewal certificates to arriving passengers at a pop-up marriage licence bureau in the Terminal 1 bag claim. It will →

Airports celebrate the Lunar New Year

01/29/25

Airports around the country and the world are celebrating the Lunar New Year and the Year of the Snake. Here’s a sampling. →

Are airlines and airports getting better at welcoming travelers with disabilities?

01/24/25

(This is a slightly different version of a story we prepared first for The Points Guy site) Over the past two years, 25.6 million travelers with disabilities have taken a total of 76.9 million trips and have spent almost $50 billion on travel per year. When you add their travel companions to the equation, this →

Airlines cancel almost 2,000 flights on Tuesday

01/20/25

A severe storm bearing down on the Gulf Coast will cause travel trouble for thousands on Tuesday – and beyond. As of 1 AM EST on Tuesday, flight tracking service Flight Aware is showing close to 2,000 flights canceled, including all flights at Houston’s Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) and Hobby Airport (HOU), both of which →

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What We’re Reading: Waiting for Spaceships

01/02/25

This is a slightly different version of a story we first prepared for The Points Guy site. All images courtesy Ted Heutter In “Waiting for Spaceships: Scenes from a Desert Community in Love with the Space Shuttle,” photographer Ted Huetter documents the thousands of people who would gather to welcome home the space shuttles on →

Best use of airport shelters

01/01/25

As promised, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) ushered in 2025, and an 18-month centennial celebration, by lighting up its signature canopies with a New Year’s countdown. Here’s what it looked like. Each of ATL’s North and South steel canopies stretches out 864 feet by 200 feet. The canopies provide shade over eight lanes of traffic →