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Very old food and classic old cars

10/23/26

Our museum team is on assigment in Tacoma, WA this week and hit the jackpot on day one in terms of treasures that tickle our fancy. When in Tacoma, we always stop in at the Washington State History Museum to visit our buddies, Dave and Dandy, the now-taxidermied oxen that pulled the covered wagon pioneer […]

Harriet Baskas

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The Newsletter

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Airport and Airline Resources

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

Emirates premium economy seats now fly from Seattle

04/03/25

Dubai-based Emirates has a reputation for swank and glamour. And since late 2022 the carrier has been working its way through interior refurbishement of 191 A380s and Boeing 777 aircraft. One piece of the project is adding a Premium Economy product – seats and service – to the planes. And Emirates now has retrofitted planes […]

Emirates

Three places we’d go

04/03/25

The weekend is coming up and, given all the stressful news, we could use a weekend away. Here are three places on our “We’d go there” list. Fly to Vancouver International Airport for the cherry blossoms Vancouver is always a treat, and landing at Vancouver International Airport (YVR) right about now comes with some bonus […]

Airports & airlines celebrate April Fools Day

04/01/25

A therapy giraffe. The world’s shortest escalator. And in-flight sauna. Here’s a round-up of just some of the fun April Fools’ Day posts we spotted from airports and airlines, plus some bonus pranksters. Send us your faves and let us know what we’ve missed: Finnair introduces an in-flight sauna In a press release, Finnair announced […]

Turn travel into poetry at San Diego Int’l Airport

03/31/25

Passengers traveling through San Diego International Airport (SAN) may have their travel tales turned into poetry. Now through April 29, the airport’s Spring 2025 Performing Arts Resident, Poets Underground, will be onsite in the terminals at their luggage-inspired stage called The Great Poetic Baggage Exchange. The artists will be inviting and enticing travelers to engage in conversations and mural paintings around five […]

Brussels Airlines “Atomium” livery

03/30/25

(Courtesy Visit Brussels) Brussels Airlines’ newest icon plane honors the Atomium Designed and built for the Brussels World’s Fair in 1958 and created to honor the metals industry and the atomic era, the futuristic-looking Atomium monument is still around. The structure wasn’t supposed to last beyond the fair’s run, but today it is a tourist […]

Virgin Atlantic’s new clubhouse lounge at LAX

03/27/25

The Stuck at the Airport team is a big fan of both Virgin Atlantic and actor Alan Cumming. So we were delighted that Virgin Atlantic enlisted Alan Cumming to give travelers a preview tour of the new and oh-so-swanky Clubhouse lounge at Los Angeles International Airport. The Clubhouse is in the Tom Bradley International Terminal […]