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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

See, smell, and listen to your airport

04/11/09

A day after my story, “Smelled any great airports lately?, ” about airports choosing and creating scents for their terminals, posted on USATODAY.com, and a full year after my USATODAY.com story about airports creating their own theme songs, comes this great story from CNN.com about the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport doing both! According to the […]

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport

Bright Easter greetings from Schiphol Airport

04/10/09

Stuck at an airport on Easter? If you’re lucky it will be at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, where the flower experts from the famed Keukenhof gardens have arranged a display of long yellow tulips that stretches for almost 100 feet. These aren’t the only flowers blooming at Schiphol right now. Last week, Keukenhof unveiled a flower […]

What would/should you pay for in-flight Wi-Fi?

04/09/09

Air travel used to be so easy: Pick a destination, call a travel agent, buy your ticket, pack, get dressed up, go to the airport, fly. Now? It’s much more complicated: Choose a destination. Scour the Internet for tickets. Decide: pack a carry-on or pay to check a bag? Dress for success at the security […]

Greetings from: Puerto Vallarta airport

04/09/09

For some reason, I just discovered the newsy BootsnAll Today page over at the popular travel Web site BootsnAll. Roger Wade was kind enough to add a link to my “Airport Aromas” story that posted today on USA TODAY and he was kind enough to give me an off-the-cuff report on his recent trip through […]

Love the layover: Easter Bunny Fly-in

04/09/09

Hoping to see the Easter Bunny at the airport? Travelers passing through Sacramento International Airport won’t get to see Lawrence Argent’s giant, 56-foot long fiberglass red rabbit until 2011, when the airport’s new Terminal B is scheduled to open. In the meantime, be on the lookout for a surprise Easter Bunny appearance at a major […]

Smelled any great airports lately?

04/08/09

Like many shops, restaurants, and even a few amusement parks, The May Fair, a 5-star luxury hotel in London, has its own special scent. It’s not that the hotel’s natural scent was so bad; the owners just hope guests will forever associate the smell of sea grass with a relaxing, pleasant stay at the hotel. […]