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Seed art on display at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport

07/10/26

A fun new exhibit on view at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP) features a very Minnesotan art tradition: crop (or seed) art. The seed‑crafted mosaics on display feature curated and award-winning selections from the more than 450 entries of crop art entered into the 2025 Minnesota State Fair Crop Art and Scarecrow Competition, which debuted […]

Harriet Baskas

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Airport and Airline Resources

3 things: soccer artifacts + free hotel stays + a FIFA livery

Friday roundup: Qantas Project Sunrise + July 4th travel

Alaska Airlines’ World Cup livery

“Save a life, not a bag” campaign for air travelers

Alaska Airlines debuts swanky PDX lounge + SEA & MIA Airports celebrate soccer

Horizon Air’s fun ‘Toy Story 5’ livery

Alaska Airlines now flies between Seattle and London

JetBlue’s Blueprint livery is back

See KLM’s new limited-edition miniature Delft Blue House

Flight attendant fashion at the Museum of Flight

How will the U.S. government shutdown mess with travel?

10/02/25

If the U.S. government shutdown continues, there could be trouble for travelers and the U.S. travel and tourism economy on multiple fronts. Trouble at airports and in the skies For now, airports and airlines are continuing to operate as normal and are issuing reassurances that they are. But if the shutdown continues, air travelers should […]

Exterior of the Dunes Hotel and Casino at night in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 5, 1958. Credit: Las Vegas News Bureau.

Places to go. Things to see.

09/30/25

The Neon Museum in Las Vegas Las Vegas is synonymous with lots of things, most notably neon. And the city’s Neon Museum has saved and now celebrates the neon signs of the past in a wonderful outdoor site. One of the newest additions is a sign for the entrance of the Dunes Hotel and Casino, […]

Airline liveries come and go

09/28/25

Icelandair is retiring two lovely liveries Icelandair is retiring its Boeing 757 aircraft and refreshing and expanding its fleet with Airbus A321LRs. That means two aircraft with much-loved liveries will no longer fly. Vatnajokull (2017), the carrier’s ode to the largest glacier in Europe, was introduced in 2018 and retired last week. We had the good […]

Clyde “Upside Down” Pangborn’s very old sandwich

09/25/25

This old, stale sandwich locked away in a museum in Washington state has a special connection to an aviation daredevil who made a record-setting flight. The first non-stop trans-Pacific flight was completed on October 5, 1931, by Clyde “Upside Down” Pangborn and co-pilot Hugh Herndon, Jr. Hoping to set a record and claim a $25,000 […]

Remote terminals? It could happen.

09/22/25

What if you could go through airport security before you got to the airport? For most travelers, one of the most stressful parts of air travel is getting to the airport and waiting in line to get through the security checkpoint. But what if you could park your car off-site, check your bags through their […]

Remote Terminals

How to best test an airport terminal

09/21/25

You’d think that after hiring the best architects and builders and spending billions of dollars, a new airport terminal would be ready to spring into action when the work is done. But before flights begin to come and go from a new terminal, airports usually run a dress rehearsal day with volunteers pretending to be […]