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2 U.S. airports on this year’s list of “Most Beautiful”

06/17/26

Each year, a prestigous series of global architecture awards called the Prix Versailles are anounced at UNESCO to honor the “World’s Most Beautiful” achievements in a variety of categories. Airports are one of those categories, along with museums, hotels, campuses, sports stadiums, restaurants , passenger stations and places to shop. The airports that are on […]

Harriet Baskas

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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

Wine flies free on these 2 airlines

Let’s talk about airline sizing restrictions

Phone Home Free from SUX

03/24/08

It’s my second week as guest contributor for the Airport Check-In column over at USA TODAY. This week’s topics include new registered traveler lanes at the D.C. airports, new self-select “diamond lanes” at security checkpoints in Boston, Orlando and Spokane, Washington, and the free local and toll-free phone service offered at Iowa’s Sioux Gateway Airport. […]

Sioux Gateway Airport

Flying fashion

03/22/08

Remember Star Simpson? She’s the MIT student who showed up to meet her boyfriend at Boston’s Logan International Airport last September wearing a black sweatshirt adorned with a plastic circuit board decorated with green LED lights and wires. Simpson says the outfit was designed to attract attention at a college career fair. Airport police thought […]

TSA: Cruising for a bruising?

03/21/08

Not sure how it will work out, but you’ve got to give a bit of extra credit to the folks at the TSA for their “Tell us how we’re doing in general” blog and, now, for their airport-specific feedback program. The agency rolled out the new program today, complete with a handy hot-linked map, for […]

The Russians are coming

03/20/08

Traveling to or through Houston’s George Bush International Airport (IAH) today (March 20th)? Don’t be alarmed if you see Russian Cossacks and Lion Dancers wandering about the terminals. From 9:30 in the morning until 11 pm at night the airport is celebrating Singapore Airlines’ new service to Moscow and Singapore with music and dance performances […]

George Bush International Airport

MSP will soon pamper people and their pets

03/19/08

Last week the folks at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport announced that a 24-hour pet boarding facility will open on airport property in October. The “pet palace” will have an outdoor play and exercise areas, indoor play areas, and a spa and grooming area with a pet therapy pool and massage services. Now travelers passing through […]

Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport

Wit and whimsy – Victorian style – at SFO

03/18/08

San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is, so far, the only U.S. airport with an accredited museum. There are twenty galleries scattered throughout the terminals displaying always cool, ever-changing exhibitions of art, history, science. So you may find yourself wishing for a longer layover or a flight delay here. I usually do. Right now, for example, […]