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Ready for winter travel? BWI Airport is.

10/26/26

In summer, thunderstorms may delay or cancel your flight. In winter, it’s snow. And ice. And, as BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport reminds us, during a winter weather event a lot of players —airport personnel, the airlines, and the FAA — work together to keep everyone safe. “The airlines are responsible for flight operations and de-icing […]

Harriet Baskas

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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

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 […]

Greetings from Nashville Intl Airport (BNA)

07/14/24

The Stuck at the Airport team spent the weekend exploring Nashville International Airport (BNA) and testing out the airport’s brand new BNA PASSport gate pass program from our base at the new Hilton BNA Nashville Airport Terminal. The hotel is on the plaza between the terminal and the covered parking garage. Just outside the hotel […]

New artwork honors Amelia Earhart

07/11/24

Aviation icon Amelia Earhart disappeared over the Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937 and there is new artwork honoring her life and her achievements. In Derry, Northern Ireland, the North Carolina street artist Jeks was comissioned to paint a giant mural honoring Earhart on the side of a building at North West Regional College. Earhart […]

TSA’s 6 month gun tally + Happy Birthday SEA

07/10/24

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has been screening a record number of travelers and finding lots of firearms as it does. How many firearms? For the first half of the year, which ended on June 30, TSA reports that it found 3,269 firearms at airport security checkpoints, an average of 19 firearms a day. 94% […]

Visit this airport, & others, without a plane ticket

07/08/24

This month Nashville International Airport (BNA) joins the list of airports with a guest pass program. The BNA Passport guest pass program allows a non-ticketed guest to go through the TSA security checkpoint like a ticketed passenger into the secure side of the airport. No more than 75 visitor passes a day are being issued. […]

Extreme heat is changing travel patterns

07/07/24

[This is a slightly different version of a story we prepared for NBC News] Cathy Balestriere was expecting “especially low” bookings last month at Crane’s Beach House, the boutique hotel she manages in Delray Beach, Florida. Instead, they jumped 12% from the year before. “It feels like a miracle based on where we were sitting […]