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5 Things We Love: The Ivey’s Hotel in Charlotte, NC

07/27/26

The Stuck at the Airport review team is exploring Charlotte, N.C. this week. And we’re torn between visiting every cultural, shopping and dining spot the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority placed on our itinerary or just cozying up in our room at The Ivey’s Hotel. Located in Uptown Charlotte, near many of the museums and restaurants […]

Harriet Baskas

Hotels

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Airport and Airline Resources

3 things: soccer artifacts + free hotel stays + a FIFA livery

Friday roundup: Qantas Project Sunrise + July 4th travel

Alaska Airlines’ World Cup livery

“Save a life, not a bag” campaign for air travelers

Alaska Airlines debuts swanky PDX lounge + SEA & MIA Airports celebrate soccer

Horizon Air’s fun ‘Toy Story 5’ livery

Alaska Airlines now flies between Seattle and London

JetBlue’s Blueprint livery is back

See KLM’s new limited-edition miniature Delft Blue House

Flight attendant fashion at the Museum of Flight

On-line museums of interest to air travelers

07/22/08

Hooray! The summer 2008 edition of the MOOM – the Museum of Online Museums – has been posted. Pretty much everything on the list, from the Virtual Typewriter Museum to the Museum of Corporate Neckties (yes, there are airline ties in there) is pretty special. But since this is a blog about (mostly…) airports and […]

MOOM

Jay Leno’s take on the naked American Airlines guy

07/21/08

I’m not sure how Terry Maxon and the folks at the Airline Biz blog do it. But long before the Tonight Show airs out west, they’ve got the (very funny) text of Jay Leno’s take on the American Airlines flight that had to make an emergency landing because a guy took off all his clothes […]

American Airlines

Greetings from Spokane International Airport

07/21/08

After a lovely week touring Spokane, Washington, I spent a few hours hanging around Spokane International Airport. While disappointed at having to pay to use wireless Internet at the airport (I was spoiled: all downtown Spokane is a free Wi-Fi zone) I was delighted to find the Simply Northwest shop filled with a surprising selection […]

Spokane International Airport

Slot machines at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport???

07/18/08

Last week I wrote in Portfolio.com about the unusual ways some airports have found to earn income – such as growing and selling hay planted on airport acreage to signing contracts to allow outside companies to drill for oil and gas underneath airport ground. That article also noted that, for some time now, Reno-Tahoe International […]

Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport

How to avoid getting booted off an airplane

07/17/08

Earlier this month, Wendy Slaughter, her four young kids and her pregnant sister were scheduled to fly on Southwest Airlines from Detroit to Seattle via Phoenix. They got as far as Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. That’s where airport police met the flight and informed Slaughter that Southwest had deemed her family’s onboard behavior too […]

Heads up! Volleyball Tournament at Munich Airport

07/17/08

750 tons of sand will soon be trucked into the Munich Airport Center forum for a volleyball tournament. From August 1 through the 17th, the Munich Airport Center Forum will host “Rio on Tour,” which will feature professionals and amateurs “digging, volleying and smashing on three courts.” (Photo courtesy Munich Airport) For the first three […]