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Airports and airlines are cool with heat waves

07/28/24

Extreme heat makes flying harder. Airlines and airports say they aren’t sweating it. (This is a slightly different version of a story we wrote for NBC News ) It’s been another summer of record-smashing temperatures and record-smashing air travel. Airports and airlines say they can handle both. U.S. airlines expect to carry 271 million passengers […]

Weather

Airports celebrate Pride Month

06/02/24

We’re gathering up some of the colorful and inclusive posts from airports nationwide in support of Pride Month. Let us know if we missed yours.

Holidays

SFO layover? See Art of African Instruments

05/12/24

If you’re arriving, departing or making a connection at San Francisco International Airport (SFO), be sure to leave some time to explore some of the museum-quality exhibits offered by the SFO Museum. The newest exhibition comes to SFO Airport courtesy of the Fowler Museum at UCLA. It features bells, rattles, harp lutes, drums, slit gongs, […]

Airports, airlines and Amtrak get creative on April Fools’ Day

04/01/24

Once again, airports, airlines and other parts of the aviation industry did a great job of marking April Fools’ Day. Here are some of the campaigns and (fake) announcements we’ve found – so far. Let us know what we missed and we’ll add it to the list. DFW Airport documents a sticky note prank that […]

Holidays

Int’l Women’s Day Aviation Round-Up

03/09/24

March is Women’s History Month and March 8 is International Women’s Day. Here’s how some airports and aviation museums and others marked the day. There’s a lot you can learn in a quick scroll.

Aviation history

Which airport was the busiest in 2023?

12/20/23

Yes, airports were very, very busy this year. But which one was the busiest in 2023? That would be Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport (ATL), which topped the list put together by flight data company OAG. OAG measures ‘busiest’ by airline capacity (seats), and during 2023 Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport (ATL) had more than 61 million departing […]

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Traveling for Thanksgiving?

11/13/23

Are you traveling over this Thanksgiving holiday? You won’t be alone. Not by a long shot. AAA projects 55.4 million travelers will head 50 miles or more from home over the Thanksgiving holiday travel period. That’s an increase of 2.3% over last year and marks the third-highest Thanksgiving forecast since AAA began tracking holiday travel […]

Holidays

Study finds rise in overall airport satisfaction

09/20/23

There may still be a pilot shortage and plenty of issues causing airport terminals to be crowded and confusing. However according to J.D. Power’s latest Airport study of North American airports, out today, travelers are feeling more satisfied with airports now than they were a year ago. J.D. Power’s 2023 North America Airport Satisfaction Study, […]

Airports

Travel Tidbits from airports here and there

08/23/23

Flight attendant unions mark an anniversary Shuffleboard (!) at United Airlines’ new DEN lounge Sheep at London’s Gatwick Airport Formula 1 car at Schiphol Airport Pancakes for a cause at Vancouver Int’l Airport

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