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Travel Tidbits: rides, babies & parks

11/23/15
Ride-hailing services got the go-ahead to serve some airports just in time for the busy Thanksgiving weekend: Lyft can now pick-up and drop off passengers at O’Hare International Airport and Chicago Midway, but Uber is still working out its paperwork. And Mineta San José International Airport (SJC) gave the green light to Wingz. Chicago’s O’Hare […]

Travel Tidbits from San Diego & Albany Airports

11/01/15
Here are some airport-related travel tidbits to start off the week. San Diego International is the latest airport to add lactation rooms for nursing mothers. SAN’s 3 nursing rooms are located post-security: two in Terminal 1 and one in Terminal 2 – and include a hand washing station, electrical outlets, comfortable seating, artwork, a children’s […]

Fresh – fishy – art at Brisbane Airport

10/22/15
This outdoor playscape by Carins artist Brian Robinson featuring giant fish inspired by Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is being celebrated as the finishing touch for Brisbane Airport’s $30 million Skygate expansion. Today we celebrate the official opening of the Skygate development! 30 new DFO stores for you to enjoy. pic.twitter.com/UmNhjFiqru — Brisbane Airport (@BrisbaneAirport) October […]

Healthy Airports

09/16/15
You can certainly spend you airport dwell time sitting in one place, eating junk food and being stressed out. But, as I detail in a story for the new Basil Health newsletter, you have better options. According to the 2014 Airport Food Review from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, 75 percent of airport restaurants […]

Fresh airport art exhibits

08/20/15
Stuck at the airport? Lucky you! In these and many other airports, you’ll get to see some great art. Lambert-St. Louis International Airport has a new art exhibit featuring wind instruments from the Sheldon Art Galleries through December 13, 2015 in the Lambert Gallery. On view: beautiful and exotic wind instruments from Africa, Asia, Europe, […]

SEA Airport puts all its art in an app

08/07/15
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport has an incredible art collection that was started in the late 1960s and added to over the years with impressive works in glass, sculpture, photography, painting and sound. You can walk around the airport, see something you like, read the labels and learn a lot anytime you want – but now the […]

Fresh public art at LAX TBIT

07/26/15
Three new – hard to miss – public art pieces are fully installed in the Tom Bradley International Terminal (TBIT) at Los Angeles International Airport. Bell Tower, above, by Mark Bradford, is on the mezzanine level of the terminal’s Departures Hall, and is suspended from a skylight above the TSA security screening area. The artist […]
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