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50th Birthday Party for Chicago O’Hare Airport

03/24/13
Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport is having a 50th Anniversary Celebration this week with a wide variety of special theme days, music, activities and – yay – discounts and free stuff for passengers. Here’s a run-down. Throughout the week, many concessions will be offering discounts and specials. Monday, March 25 is Military Appreciation Day.  Military and […]

Travel tidbits: Free Wi-Fi at Houston Airports & Bigfoot at Sea-Tac

01/31/13
Yay! Free Wi-Fi is coming to Houston’s Hobby and George Bush Intercontinental airports. Currently, travelers at these airports can get 45 minutes of complimentary Wi-Fi via Boingo, but according to this article in the Houston Business Journal, the Houston airport authority, is looking at getting a new Wi-Fi provider and offering free Wi-Fi by the […]

FCC eases up on in-flight Internet & TSA finds more guns

12/29/12
Some end-of-the-year tidbits for air travelers: On Friday, December 28, 2013, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued some new rules designed to “speed the deployment of  Internet services onboard aircraft.” In its release, the FAA explained that, since 2001, it has been authorizing companies to offer in-flight broadband service on an ad hoc basis. […]

Flight schedules reviving; relief efforts rewarded

11/01/12
In the New York area, JFK, Newark-Liberty and LaGuardia airports are all expected to be open on Thursday morning, although on reduced schedules, and passengers “displaced” by Sandy throughout the country – and the world – are slowly making their way to their destinations – or giving up altogether and making plans for another time. […]

Cheaper – and free – airport Wi-Fi

08/24/12
[Updated: 8/24/12 at noon] Boingo Wireless and Google Offers are teaming up to offer discounted Wi-Fi access at 16 airports around the country that currently either charge for Wi-Fi services or offer limited free Wi-Fi sessions. To take advantage of the offer, you may have to sign up for Google Offers (a Groupon-like deal service) […]

Airport Wi-Fi: free, but why so stingy?

06/21/12
  One of the most requested, used and appreciated amenities at airports these days is free wireless internet access. And, in more and more airports, travelers are finding that Wi-Fi access is indeed free. But the definition of “free” seems to be changing. The trend for a while there was for airports to offer passengers […]
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