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Ready for winter travel? BWI Airport is.

10/26/26

In summer, thunderstorms may delay or cancel your flight. In winter, it’s snow. And ice. And, as BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport reminds us, during a winter weather event a lot of players —airport personnel, the airlines, and the FAA — work together to keep everyone safe. “The airlines are responsible for flight operations and de-icing […]

Harriet Baskas

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The history of airline meals in 7 courses – in Seattle

KLM reveals miniature Delft Blue house #107

United’s status match offer (do it) + more AmEx lounges

Alaska Airlines news + SJC gate pass program + awards for us

Tickets for new Qantas 18-hour nonstop flight between New York & Sydney begin August 2027

World’s Best Airlines, according to Skytrax

I flew to four Pacific Northwest Airports and didn’t go through a security check once

What’s old is new again: United testing food delivery to the gate

Listen to this. But maybe not on a plane

Alaska Airlines spreading its wings to Athens & Paris

Fresh art at John Wayne Airport (SNA)

03/31/24

(Interconexión, Abby Aceves) The newest art exhibition at John Wayne Airport (SNA) in Orange County, CA titled “Symbology” includes the work of six Southern California-based Latinx artists: Abby Aceves, John Flores, Dani Garcia, Amanda Kazemi, Ivan Virgen, and Jaime Zacarias (aka Germs). The artists use pattern, color, iconography, and metaphor to delve into tradition presented […]

Geologists drill holes like this one to extract core samples of rock. This hole, about five inches in diameter, was drilled on the 4,850-foot level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility.

Science snaps on display at Rapid City Regional Airport

03/28/24

Rapid City Regional Airport (RAP) in South Dakota is welcoming travelers with a temporary art exhibition, “The Science at SURF: Images from the Underground, Lead, SD.” Located in the former site of the Homestake Gold Mine, SURF is now an underground research facility whose tagline tells us, “Scientists probe the depths of space to learn […]

Images in concrete at Miami Int’l Airport

03/27/24

If you’re traveling to or through Miami International Airport (MIA), take a minute to visit the airport’s CameraWork Gallery at Gates D22 and D25. A new exhibit in that gallery features photographs of concrete structures in Miami and Havana that were designed by Cuban architects who fled the island after the Cuban Revolution. The photographs […]

Postcard from Paris: a museum most tourists miss

03/27/24

The Stuck at the Airport team is in Paris this week. Lucky us, right? First stop: the Eiffel Tower, of course. But only because it was on the way to a great museum: The Musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, which does a wonderful job of displaying, promoting, and explaining the indigenous arts and culture of […]

Airport upgrades, courtesy infrastructure funds

03/25/24

(Courtesy Appleton International Airport) This is a slightly different version of a story we wrote for NBC News If construction cranes are looming over your local airport or “Please Pardon Our Appearance” signs are decking out the terminal, it may be partly thanks to Congress and the White House. U.S. airports say money from the […]

Meteorites galore at Portland Int’l Jetport in Maine

03/22/24

Much of Maine will be in the path of the total solar eclipse on April 8. But pieces of the Moon and Mars area landing at Portland International Jetport (PWM) in Portland, Maine on March 26th. For the next five years, the airport will be home to a museum-level exhibit from the Maine Mineral & Gem […]