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Honolulu Airport gets free Wi-Fi; you may get a free trip.

12/10/10

There's now free wireless internet at Honolulu International Airport. And you can win a trip to New Zealand if you have the ugliest Christmas sweater. →

Rico, Air New Zealand’s furry, sexy spokes-thing talks to Stuck at the Airport

11/17/10

Rico, Air New Zealand's furry, somewhat naughty, furry spokes-thing answers a few questions for StuckatTheAirport.com →

Air New Zealand’s naughty puppet corrupting kids

10/20/10

Last week Air New Zealand came out with two very funny, but sort of naughty, videos featuring a fuzzy brown puppet name Rico. Here’s the link to those earlier videos. Now there’s a third: a nursery rhyme gone very wrong Rico is on his way to the U.S. for a visit and I think I’ll →

Two new, slightly naughty, Air New Zealand videos

10/10/10

These new Air New Zealand videos are hysterical, adorable and a wee bit naughty… →

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Lounge review: Air New Zealand Koru Club Lounge at LAX

09/22/10

Except for that year when my husband bought me a United Airlines Red Carpet Club membership as a birthday present, I’m not a regular in airline club lounges. Although I’d certainly like to be. Especially after spending a few hours at Air New Zealand’s Koru Club Lounge at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) Located upstairs →

Airports – and now airlines – trash talking each other

03/27/10

For my At the Airport column on USAToday.com this month, Airport wars escalate with attack ads aimed at rivals, I wrote about a new YouTube video about San Francisco International Airport, that features cameo appearances by SF Mayor Gavin Newsom and Marion & Vivian Brown, the kooky 83-year-old identical twins who have become beloved San →

Tidbits for travelers: YVR’s Olympic rings & Air New Zealand’s Skycouches

01/26/10

The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics kick off in just a few weeks and Vancouver International Airport (YVR) is getting ready to welcome more than 230,000 athletes and Olympics-bound visitors. Actually, the airport has been sprucing up for quite a while. In addition to its swanky new Observation Gallery, the airport has had these giant Olympic →

Air New Zealand Matchmaking Party – kisses all around

10/16/09

Last night, acting, looking, and in a few cases smelling like a bunch of junior high kids embarking on their first prom, about a hundred of the Americans who flew to Auckland on Air New Zealand’s Matchmaking Flight joined 150 nattily-dressed Kiwis for the Great Matchmaking Party. As billed, it was a night of inter-hemisphere →

More on Air New Zealand’s Matchmaking Flight

10/15/09

Greetings from Auckland! Today many of the 111 folks who flew on Air New Zealand’s Matchmaking Flight from Los Angeles will spend the day prepping and primping for tonight’s gala party. Not just a party, but a get-all-dressed-up Matchmaking Ball, where folks who took the 13 hour flight over from the U.S. will get to →

Air New Zealand’s matchmaker flight touches down in Auckland

10/14/09

Just wanted to share a few photos from Air New Zealand’s matchmaking flight from Los Angeles to Auckland, which left LAX last night about 10:30 and arrived in a rainy Auckland this morning around 7:30 am. First surprise: not everyone was 21 years old. Folks who signed up for the flight appeared to range in →

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