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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 […]

Harriet Baskas

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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

Portland Int’l Airport needs a superhero

02/01/09

The Oregonian is reporting that Portland International Airport (PDX) is back in business after diverting 18 flights Saturday night due to fog and a problem with a malfunctioning computer-operated navigational tool. As the impressive photo from the Oregonian’s article shows, fog isn’t all that rare in Portland this time of year. But broken navigational systems […]

Problems at PDX

02/01/09

Got this release this around 11 pm Saturday night from Oregon’s Portland International Airport. I’m not sure what they mean: “the removal of a key navigational aid…?” Is it out for service? Stolen? PDX Arrivals Currently Being Diverted Due to a combination of weather conditions and the removal of a key navigational aid used to […]

Portland International Airport

Tools for travelers: Inc.com’s Quick Hits blog

01/30/09

Inc.com has a new blog – Quick Hits – filled with tips, discounts and freebies for business-related tools, services, and products. Looks like travel tips are on the agenda as well: this week’s blog entries include a review of the pricey Visa Black Card (it includes concierge service) and a link to my recent MSNBC.com […]

Inc.com

Glimmers of hope?

01/30/09

Two items caught my eye today that seem like encouraging steps in the right direction. From the Airline Biz blog, – a note about Continental Airlines saying they’d make it a policy to let passengers deplane if they’d been stuck on an airplane for more than three hours. And from the Chicago Tribune: an article […]

Tips for travel tightwads: book the “flagpole” room

01/30/09

One summer, when my travel budget was really tight, I took my mother with me on my work-related road trips. Not because she was great company, but because with her in tow I could get a senior discount on motel rooms. As you can imagine, there were some serious downsides to that scheme, but at […]

Tasty tidbits for air travelers

01/29/09

A couple of tasty tidbits for hungry, thirsty travelers: Free drinks on JetBlue JetBlue Airways is partnering with Stirrings (they make all-natural cocktail mixers) to give each passenger traveling on Sunday, February 1, a free cocktail. They say it has something to do with football…. New restaurant at LAX Today (Thursday, January 29th) Gladstone’s, a […]