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Spooky Museums to visit at Halloween – or anytime

10/05/26

You don’t need to be 7 to love Halloween or everything spooky. And you don’t need to limit your visits to spooky museums to the Halloween season. We put together a list of ten of the spookiest for a new Travel + Leisure story, but here are five of our favorites. The Witch Board Museum: […]

Harriet Baskas

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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

Marking National Aviation Day

Want: this airline etiquette gear from Lufthansa

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

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

09/08/26

Stuck at the Airport headquarters is in Seattle, so Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) is our home base airport. And we love it. We love it, of course for the great adventures that start and end there. We also love it for the live music program, the wonderful and ever-expanding art collection, the Central Terminal, the […]

Fortune-tellling teacups, crystal balls & more on view now at San Francisco Int’l Airport

09/06/26

The newest exhibition from the SFO Museum at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is all about fortune-telling and the paranormal. On view post-security in Terminal 2, Gallery 2A through mid-April 2027, this exhibition showcases fortune-telling cards, games, and devices. On view are crystal balls, swinging pendulums, fortune-telling teacups, tarot cards and all manner of psychic […]

Gateside by TSA PreCheck lets non-ticketed guests into 13 airports

09/04/26

Stuck at the Airport is a big fan of the free gate pass programs that allow non-ticketed passengers to go to the secure side of the airport to walk friends and family to the gate, greet someone getting off the plane, or just hang out at the airport to shop, eat or watch planes come […]

Where to see Dolly, the cloned sheep named for Dolly Parton

09/03/26

After arriving in Edinburgh, Scotland, the StuckatTheAirport musueum team made a beeline for the National Museum of Scotland to find the Arthur’s Seat Coffins (see below). But before we could wend our way to the corner of the vast museum where the wee cofffins are displayed, we stopped to pay our respects to Dolly the […]

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

09/02/26

Before the COVID pandemic crippled air travel for an extended period, companies such as At Your Gate, Grab and OTG (the company that introduced iPad ordering at airports many years ago) offered gate-delivery of food, drink and travel essentials to your seat. The idea seemed ideal for airports where people are apt to head straight […]

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Celebrity snaps on view at Harry Reid Int’l Airport in Las Vegas

09/01/26

Las Vegas has always attracted celebrities. And so has its airport. Harry Reid International Airport (LAS) is currently offering passengers a chance to see photos of some of the famous folks that have passed through its terminals. An exhibit titled “Neon Gateway” is on view in the walkway between the C/D gates security checkpoint and […]