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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

What’s with the laser at Sea-Tac Airport?

03/05/09

I’m due to fly home to Seattle tonight after testing out Alaska Airline’s Wi-Fi equipped “WI FI ONE” plane and wondering if I have to worry about our plane getting lasered on the way in. According to the Seattle Times newspaper, the pilots of four planes reported seeing a bright laser light Wednesday night as […]

Tidbits for travelers: BWI Twitters, Southwest pampers,

03/05/09

Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) used its Twitter account during the recent east coast snowstorm to share information about weather conditions and flight delays and hopes you’ll sign up to get their tweets- including updates on parking – next time you’re headed that way. And Southwest Airlines rolled out yet another priority security lane […]

United’s Red Carpet Club day-pass on sale

03/04/09

Not sure how long this will last, but United is having a little sale on one-day passes to the Red Carpet Club. If you buy your pass on-line, you’ll pay $39 instead of $50. For travelers like me, who had to let their annual club membership lapse, it’s a good deal. Especially now that Wi-Fi […]

Update on MIA’s Carybé murals – the video

03/04/09

Miami International Airport is going to be the new home of the two murals by Brazilian artist Carybé that were part of the American Airlines terminal at JFK since 1960. Taking the murals out of American’s old JFK terminal wasn’t easy – each mural is 16½ feet by 53 feet. And they weren’t just hung […]

Let’s all go to the movies

03/03/09

It would be great if we could watch movies – cartoons, short subjects, mini-docs, etc. – at the airport. For free (of course). Given how long we all spend at airports these days, there’s often time to watch full-length features as well. Instead, we often watch films in-flight. And as I wrote here a while […]

Band of Luggage Thieves nabbed at Bradly Int’l Airport

03/03/09

“Cameras. Laptop computers. Flat-screen televisions. Cellphones. Jewelry. Even 5-foot-tall African masks.” (Photo courtesy of Connecticut State Police) That’s the way a Hartford Courant writer starts off his article about the arrest of a “band of thieving baggage handlers” at Bradley International Airport. Some of the 11 people arrested worked for Delta Air Lines, others worked […]