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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

Museums

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

Airport pickpockets

01/08/09

It’s easy to get distracted at the airport. But here’s a reminder from the Vancouver Sun about why it’s especially important to make sure your wallet is safely tucked away: Visitors to [Toronto’s] Pearson International Airport are being targeted by an organization of South American pickpockets, who stole as much as $500,000 last year, authorities […]

Toronto Pearson International Airport

Travel tip from a wine lover

01/08/09

The complimentary drink choices offered to business and first class cabin passengers usually include a variety of top notch wines. Not so in coach. If you want wine, you pay for it. And the choices are never that exciting: red or white. But where there’s a will there’s a way. And a wine… as Harris […]

Love the layover: London’s Madame Tussauds free for US citizens Jan 20th

01/07/09

Can’t afford to go to Washington, D.C. for the inauguration of Barack Obama on January 20th? Consider going to the see the newest U.S. president in London instead. On January 20th, Madame Tussauds in London will be unveiling its sculpture of Barack Obama. The waxwork version of the new president will be posed informally, in […]

Always travel with a sweater

01/07/09

Here’s another reason why it’s good to travel with a sweater – and why airports worldwide may soon be more enthusiastic to embrace solar and other alternative sources of energy. According to Reuters: Hungary’s main international airport, Budapest, switched to oil from gas heating on Wednesday [today], after Russian gas imports via Ukraine stopped. Local […]

Air India says flight attendants too fat to fly

01/07/09

A few months back, Air India grounded a group of flight attendants and told them they could return to the skies only if they lost weight. Instead of going on a diet, the flight attendants went to court. The scales of justice tipped in the airline’s favor, though, and now the airline has fired nine […]

Air India flight attendants

New art exhibit at John Wayne Airport (SNA)

01/06/09

John Wayne Airport (SNA) in Santa Ana, California features the work of many Orange County artists. For example…. Paintings by Michael Ward are on display now through January 22, 2009. Ward’s images are based on photographs the artist has taken himself and depict scenes of the ever changing landscape of Southern California. The paintings are […]