Homepage - Stuck at the Airport

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

Museums

The Newsletter

Get the latest airport news with the Stuck at the Airport Newsletter!

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

Cherry blossom selfie stations at DC-area airports

03/20/25

Many cities around the country celebrate cherry blossom season, but Washington, D.C. goes all out with a four-week-long National Cherry Blossom Festival, which honors the 1912 gift of 3,000 cherry trees from Tokyo’s Mayor Yukio Ozaki to Washington, DC. The seasonal event includes kite festival, a parade, music, art and lots of other activities from […]

Places we’re adding to our ‘go’ list

03/19/25

Transportation cartoons in NY’s Grand Central Station In celebration of the centennial of The New Yorker Magazine, the New York Transit Museum is presenting Commentary on the Commute: A Century of The New Yorker’s Transportation Cartoons from Wednesday, March 26th to October 26, 2005. The free exhibit, in the Transit Museum’s Grand Central Gallery & […]

Fresh art at San Diego Int’l Airport

03/18/25

(Artist: Guillermo Arias) Mirror, Mirror exhibition at San Diego Int’l Airport Mirror Mirror, the newest temporary exhibition on display at San Diego International Airport (SAN), features more than 100 works by 16 contemporary artists from the region, all exploring the fascinating interplay between light, color, and space. (Artist: Sophia Allison) SAN’s Mirror, Mirror exhibition draws on the […]

Canadians cutting out U.S. travel

03/17/25

This is a slightly different version of a story we wrote first for NBC News online. Michael Mortensen was looking forward to spending two weeks in Hawaii with his family last month, but his patriotism wouldn’t let him. The Vancouver-based development consultant and urban planner said he’s refusing to spend money south of the border […]

Inspiration for a road trip

03/17/25

(Teapot Dome gas station, Zillah, Washington)] Road trip season is around the corner. And for inspiration we often turn to the John Margolies Roadside America Photograph Archive at the Library of Congress. Between 1969 and 2008, Margolies traveled around the country taking photos of roadside attractions and classic – and often offbeat – commercial structures around […]

road trip

Watch out for the dinosaur at IND Airport

03/13/25

A 33-foot-long Tyrannosaurus Rex is currently towering over passengers and visitors in the pre-security Civic Plaza at Indianapolis International Airport (IND). Bucky the T. rex, as he’s known, will be onsite at IND until April 11 to help celebrate the 100th birthday of the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, which is the world’s largest children’s museum. […]