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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

Peanut-free Southwest Airlines flights?

01/13/09

Passengers on Southwest Airlines flights can usually choose between a complimentary snack of pretzels or peanuts. But not always. According to an entry in today’s Southwest Airlines blog, “Nuts about Southwest,” travelers with peanut allergies can request a ‘no-peanut’ flight. No word on whether or not you can request a “no Peanuts” flight, though.

Heathrow Airport: Emma Thompson says no go on 3rd runway

01/13/09

In an effort to thwart plans for a 3rd runway at London’s Heathrow Airport, Greenpeace, other environmental activists and a few celebrities, including Oscar-winning actress Emma Thompson, have bought up a piece of land “slap bang” in the middle of the proposed project site. Opponents of the 3rd runway project are worried about greenhouse gases, […]

San Diego’s “mystery airport” unveiled

01/12/09

Japan and Hong Kong have airports built on man-made islands, so why not San Diego? That’s apparently the solution a private business group had in mind when it sought a patent for the design of a multilevel airport with three runways that could be built in shallow water and accessed via an underwater tunnel. Now […]

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Snooze at Stockholm Airport

01/10/09

Stockholm-Arlanda Airport not only has a fancy new duty-free store with the world’s largest “snusidor,” there’s also a hotel in the middle of the airport, the Radisson SAS Sky City Hotel between Terminals 4 and 5. Starting around January 15th, travelers will also be able to spend a night at the nearby Jumbo Hostel, a […]

Award winning designs at airports and on airplanes

01/09/09

The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Center for Architecture and Urban Studies have announced their 2008 Good Design Awards. One winner: the Dyson Airblade Hand Dryer, which is installed in some restrooms at the Los Angeles International, San Francisco, Phoenix, Detroit, Minneapolis, Nashville, Boston Logan, and Anchorage airports. Another winner: […]

Quiet please, the pilot is sleeping

01/08/09

Here’s a thoughtful, educational, and alarming article about the issue of napping pilots by James Wallace at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. In addition to recounting the details of the Go! airline pilots that fell asleep on their way from Honolulu to Hilo, Hawaii last February, Wallace describes a NASA study conducted to determine if intentional napping […]