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Hurricane Sandy: airlines, airports not fooling around

10/29/12

Airlines & airports are not fooling around when it comes to Hurricane Sandy. On Sunday evening, news outlets were reporting that airlines had already canceled close to 7,000 flights throughout the system – not just in the northeast – in anticipation of the storm and encouraging passengers to take advantage of cancellation waiver offers. Airports […]

SFO Museum exhibit profiles China’s Civil Air Transport (CAT)

10/18/12

There’s a intriguing gem of an exhibition at the Louis A. Turpin Aviation Museum and Library in the lobby of the International Terminal at San Francisco International Airport. With more than 150 objects and images, Civil Air Transport: Asia’s Airline of Distinction looks at early flight in China and Civil Air Transport (CAT), the airline […]

The future of in-flight entertainment? Sort of up in the air…

09/27/12

While a short promotional movie called Howdy Chicago was shown to passengers on an plane that flew over the Chicago World’s Fair in 1921, there were no regular in-flight movies until 1961, when Trans World Airlines (TWA) began offering that novel perk to its first-class customers. Video games (1975), seat-back video (1991) and live in-flight […]

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APEX awards applaud airlines for attention to passenger experience

09/18/12

I had the honor of being a judge for one of the awards handed out Monday night at the APEX Awards Ceremony to honor airlines for excellence in passenger experience. (APEX is the Airline Passenger Experience Association, an organization of airlines, suppliers and related companies holding its annual APEX EXPO in Long […]

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Fun, photo-rich timeline celebrates Air Canada’s 75th birthday

09/11/12

What do Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Louis Armstrong, Chubby Checker, Warren Beatty, Peter Fonda, Ronald Reagan and Bob Hope all have in common? They were all passengers on Air Canada or its predecessor, Trans Canada Air Lines (TCA), sometime during the past 75 years. As part of a slew of activities to mark its 75th […]

Another big moving day for the Las Vegas airport

07/27/12

At the end of June, 15 international carriers at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas began operating out of the E Gates at the swanky new Terminal 3. Now that the dust has (hopefully) settled from that switchover, it’s time to move operations for many of the domestic carriers over to Terminal 3 as well. […]