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Travel tidbits from SFO, DEN & FAR airports

02/23/26

Decorative vases and ornamental pots at the SFO Museum Jardinières – ornamental vessels, plant stands and vases of various shapes and sizes – reflected the Victorians’ love of elaborate ornamentation. And in Indoor Eden: Victorian Jardinières, the newest SFO Museum exhibition at San Francisco International Airport (SFO), vessels on display are adorned with botanical patterns, →

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Trouble for travelers: blizzard + Global Entry closure. TSA PreCheck: open.

02/22/26

Major woes for travelers are piling up. First, there’s the winter storm, named Hernando, making its way along the east coast, especially in the mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions, accompanied by blizzard warnings for many areas. Airlines have already proactively canceled thousands of flights and offered passengers the option to cancel or change their flight plans →

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Airlines cancel flights, but airports stay open

01/25/26

Airlines are, understandably, canceling thousands of flights due to snowy, icy, sleety and dangerous weather conditions around the country right now. But even with few or no commercial flights arriving or departing, airports do their best to stay open and opeartional. That means crews are working around the clock to keep runways cleared and open. →

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Travel mess today. Courtesy, Winter Storm Fern

01/25/26

The Weather Channel map, above, snapped at 7 am East Coast time on Sunday morning, shows which parts of the country are experiencing snow, rain, ice or a mix of it all. Flights and airports in this large section of the country are experiencing mass cancellations, but air traffic everywhere is being affected as airplanes →

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Updated links to the airline travel waivers due to Winter Storm Fern

01/23/26

This map from the Weather Chanel is chilling in so many ways. If, like us, you’ve got any flights or other travel planned in the next few days, in or out of the path of this major storm predicted to drop more than a foot of snow in many parts of the country, be prepared →

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Airlines travel waivers for Winter Storm Blair

01/05/25

Winter Storm Blair is disrupting travel across the Midwest and East Coast and causing thousands of flight delays. As of late Sunday evening, here’s what airlines were posting in terms of travel waivers and alerts: As always, be sure to check with your airline before venturing to the airport for your flight. Alaska Airlines: “We →

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Post Hurricane Milton, airports reopening & flights resuming. Cautiously.

10/10/24

(Map courtesy Weather.com) Florida residents are just starting to deal with the aftermath of Hurricane Milton. As they do, airports that had closed for the storm’s duration are reopening. Airlines are resuming some flights, but anyone flying to or from the region should check with their airline for updates. In many cases travel alerts and →

Airports and airlines brace for Hurricane Milton

10/06/24

First, it was Hurricane Helene. Now Hurricane Milton is heading toward Central Florida and is expected to arrive with vengeance midweek. Airlines are already canceling flights, posting travel advisories and offering fee waivers for flight changes. Airports are issuing operational updates and reminding travelers that they are not public shelters. Here are the policies and →

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Hurricane Helene closing airports & canceling flights. Here are links airline flexible travel policies.

09/26/24

Travelers heading to or from Florida, Georgia and many parts of the U.S. southeast found Tampa International Airport (TPA) closed and hundreds of flights canceled or delayed throughout the region on Thursday as Hurricane Helene made landfall. The delays and cancellations will continue Friday and through the weekend and airlines are waiving change fees and →

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Airports and airlines are cool with heat waves

07/28/24

Extreme heat makes flying harder. Airlines and airports say they aren’t sweating it. (This is a slightly different version of a story we wrote for NBC News ) It’s been another summer of record-smashing temperatures and record-smashing air travel. Airports and airlines say they can handle both. U.S. airlines expect to carry 271 million passengers →

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