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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

Airports and airlines are cool with heat waves

07/28/24

Extreme heat makes flying harder. Airlines and airports say they aren’t sweating it. (This is a slightly different version of a story we wrote for NBC News ) It’s been another summer of record-smashing temperatures and record-smashing air travel. Airports and airlines say they can handle both. U.S. airlines expect to carry 271 million passengers […]

Snaps from the Alaska Airlines Lounge at SFO

07/26/24

Here’s what’s inside Alaska Airlines new lounge at SFO Airport Alaska Airlines debuted its new lounge in Terminal 1 (by Gate B6) at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) this week and we visited for a preview. This new lounge has 230 seats, a wide variety of seating options, upgraded food and drink options, plenty of […]

California’s Long Beach Airport celebrates its centennial with cool posters

07/24/24

To celebrate its centennial year, California’s Long Beach Airport (LGB) is releasing a series of four vintage-style posters that are sure to be collectible. The first poster, pictured above, is titled “Early Days of Aviation.” This poster celebrates the early 1900s when Long Beach’s sandy shoreline served as the runway. In this poster, onlookers are amazed as […]

CrowdStrike airline waiver policies still in effect – at Delta Air Lines

07/23/24

There are still some system-wide airline cancelations and delays due to the CrowdStrike IT outage, but many airlines are back on track. Delta Air Lines, though, is still having major issues getting things back on track. On its website, Delta says: “Delta people worked Monday to get the airline’s complex global operation back on […]

Fresh art at SFO Airport: Rosie the Riveter

07/18/24

One of the newest SFO Museum exhibitions at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) tells the story of Rosie the Riveter and the accomplishments of more than 16 million women who joined the workforce during the Second World War. More than sixteen million women were employed at the peak of wartime production in 1944—with over three […]

Where is the world’s busiest airport?

07/16/24

Airports Council International (ACI) World tallies airline traffic numbers each year and the trade group just released the official list of the busiest airports in the world in 2023. A preliminary list was released in April. And, as it did then, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) tops the list for passenger traffic, followed by Dubai […]