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Fresh airport amenities. And Super Bowl plans.

SEA Airport gets a retro arcade

A retro-arcade-themed gaming center with food and beverages just opened at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA).

And we’re planning to get to the airport extremely early for our flight this week so we can test it out.

The arcade, in the SEA N Concourse, is called Sky Gamerz and it has food and drinks as well as retro games played on vintage Atari 2600 consoles including Miss Pac-Man, Dig Dug and Donkey Kong.

Airlines adding Super Bowl Flights & the New Orleans airport is ready for them

The Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles are heading to New Orleans to face off in Super Bowl LIX on February 9.

Whether or not they have tickets to the big game, thousands of fans will be heading that way too. And the major airlines are adding flights to help them get into and out of The Big Easy.

Some of those flights have special custom numbers for those in the know.

Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY) is ready to welcome the fans.

And some flight deals for people – and their pets

The Stuck at the Airport team has February flights plans that include Sydney, Australia, so we’re pleased to see that Air New Zealand has a flight sale starting January 28, with discounted economy fares from cities like Los Angeles to Sydney starting at just $848 and from San Francisco to Sydney at just $998. Premium Economy and Business class tickets are on sale too.

Bark Air – which offers flights for dogs and their people – has a flight news too.

Bark Air is a charter air service for dogs and their humans operating flights between New York and Los Angeles, Paris and London using Gulfstream G5 and G4 jets and flying to and from secondary airports, such as Westchester County Airport in White Plains (HPN), Van Nuys Airport (VNY) near Los Angeles and Standsted Airport (STN) near London.

Air fare on these flights start at $6,000 for a pet and a person, but over the President’s Day weekend, February 13-17, Bark Air is offering some less expensive flights at $1000 and below on larger CRJ-200 aircraft between New York Teterboro Airport (TEB) and Fort Lauderdale International Airport (FLL).

Tidbits for travelers: Pep rally at PIT, Oompah at Gatwick, Kong at Orlando Airport

PIT T REX Steelers

(Even PIT’s T Rex is excited about the Steelers being in the Super Bowl)

Super Bowl mania is reaching into airports: four airlines have added extra flights from Pittsburgh to Dallas for the Super Bowl and on Friday morning (February 4th), Pittsburgh International Airport will be hosting a black-and-gold-themed pep rally for Arlington-bound Steelers fans.

The rally will take place in the airside terminal between 8:30 and noon and feature live music, special guests, “Hudsy” the Dog from Hudson Booksellers, Steelers merchandise and lots of excited fans.

To celebrate two new airberlin routes, The Bavarian Strollers will be playing oompah-filled songs at Gatwick Airport and Victoria Station on Monday, February 7th. The song list will be made up of requests voted on via Twitter and four random voters will win airberlin tickets from Gatwick Airport to Nuremburg or Hanover.  Details on the airberlin oompah contest here.

And there’s a new video arcade at Orlando International Airport: the “King of Kong” arcade is in the main terminal near the food court.  At the grand opening Twin Galaxies, the authority on video game high scores and world records, unveiled a set of video-game-related trading cards. The first two cards in the series feature Billy Mitchell and Walter Day. Mitchell has numerous world records for Donkey Kong and Pac-Man; Day is known as the founding father of organized video game playing and competitions.