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More new airport concessions: SEA edition

09/22/26

Yesterday, we gathered up some of the new concessions offerings recently arrived and coming soon to several airports around the county, including Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, Dallas Fort Worth International Airport and Nashville International Airport. The list doesn’t end there. Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) just announced 17 new dining and retail stores selected for […]

Harriet Baskas

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Airport and Airline Resources

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

Friday roundup: Qantas Project Sunrise + July 4th travel

Alaska Airlines’ World Cup livery

Let’s get out of here

03/05/25

Feeling like you need a break? We do. Between the news and the weather and, well, really just the news, we’re reading every email that pops into our inbox that has a whiff of something fun to do somewhere else. Here are some museum exhibits we’re putting on the “let’s go there” list:” Asian Comics: […]

Do you love the scent of the airport?

03/04/25

Have you ever wished that you or your home would smell just like your favorite airport or airline? It’s not such a far-fetched idea. Back in 2012, we saw the debut of a line of 19 city-centric scents named for their airport city codes — CDG (Paris), LHR (London), DXB (Dubai) — and packaged in slender bottles […]

Happy 30th birthday, Denver International Airport

03/03/25

Thirty years ago, on February 28, 1995, the future staff of StuckatTheAirport.com was having a hard time leaving Denver’s Stapleton International Airport. It wasn’t that we loved that airport so much. It was because operations were switching over from Stapleton to the brand new Denver International Airport (DEN) facilities, 19 miles down the road. And, […]

Cool places to go. Great things to see. Many free.

02/27/25

It’s Friday. Finally. So we are digging into the inbox to share some of the messages we’ve saved about cool places we’d love to go and great things we’d love to see. As always, we give bonus points for anything cool and free. Visit Vessel for free The “Vessel” structure at Hudson Yards in New […]

Finnish airplane hotel (with sauna). And a museum in a Chinese airport.

02/24/25

The Stuck at the Airport team visited Finland, loved it and Helsinki Airport – and we’re now scheming to go back. If we do, we’ll try to book a stay at the Ilmatar Airplane Lodge, which the folks at Visit Finland let us know is housed inside a SAAB 340b passenger airplane once operated by […]

Collectors: get an airport trading card on National Trading Card Day

02/23/25

February 24 is National Trading Card Day and a good time to remind travelers that many airports (and some airlines) have trading cards. Airports Council International-North America, a membership organization for airports and aviation-related businesses, created a trading card program for airports back in 2014. About 100 airports now participate in the program with cards […]