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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 […]

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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

Where to go?

01/06/25

(Queen Elizabeth II by Andy Warhol (1985). Credit: Courtesy of UCR ARTS) California sounds good Maybe it’s the new year. Maybe it’s the cold, rainy weather here at Stuck at the Airport headquarters in Seattle. But we want to go everywhere – and see everything – that pops into our inbox. In California, the Catalina […]

Airlines travel waivers for Winter Storm Blair

01/05/25

Winter Storm Blair is disrupting travel across the Midwest and East Coast and causing thousands of flight delays. As of late Sunday evening, here’s what airlines were posting in terms of travel waivers and alerts: As always, be sure to check with your airline before venturing to the airport for your flight. Alaska Airlines: “We […]

What We’re Reading: Waiting for Spaceships

01/02/25

This is a slightly different version of a story we first prepared for The Points Guy site. All images courtesy Ted Heutter In “Waiting for Spaceships: Scenes from a Desert Community in Love with the Space Shuttle,” photographer Ted Huetter documents the thousands of people who would gather to welcome home the space shuttles on […]

Best use of airport shelters

01/01/25

As promised, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) ushered in 2025, and an 18-month centennial celebration, by lighting up its signature canopies with a New Year’s countdown. Here’s what it looked like. Each of ATL’s North and South steel canopies stretches out 864 feet by 200 feet. The canopies provide shade over eight lanes of traffic […]

Happy New Year & Safe Travels in 2025

12/31/24

Roundup: Best Airport Amenities 2024

12/29/24

The Stuck at the Airport team, like Santa, keeps a list of airports that are very, very good. And we’re happy to share our round-up of some of the best airport amenties we spotted in 2024. If we missed your favorite, let us know! Note: our first first appeared on the The Points Guy site […]