They’re calling it the Battle of Heartland vs. Hollywood. And, per the wager, the airport CEO of the team that loses Super Bowl 2022 will have to wear the QB jersey of the opposing team for a day.
The exact birth date was January 10, 1947. On that day, at 9:23 a.m., an American Airlines flight from Cleveland was the first plane to land. Minutes later the first Delta Airlines and TWA flights landed.
To celebrate the airport’s 75th anniversary and its growth over the years, CVG is hosting a year-long Travel Dream Sweepstakes through December 2022.
Monthly winners will be chosen to receive a minimum of a $500 travel voucher for flights from CVG Airport. You can enter the CVG sweepstakes here or at stations set up in the airport.
If we miss an amenity at CVG that you love, please be sure to mention it in the comments section below. The same goes for nominating another airport for the series.
CVG: 5 Things We Love About Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport”
1. Miniature Therapy Horses that visit CVG
Many airports have teams of therapy dogs that come by to help destress passengers in the terminals.
CVG has a partnership with Seven Oaks Farm, which brings miniature therapy horses by the airport.
2. CVG’s Autonomous Floor Scrubbers and Vacuum Robots
CVG is serious about staying clean. So keep on the lookout for Neo, a floor-scrubbing robot made by Avidbots and vacuum robots from Softbank.
3. CVG’s themed Cincinnati Zoo play area
The Cincinnati Zoo partners with CVG to make a play area celebrating Fiona, the zoo’s celebrity hippo who gained fame for being the smallest hippo to survive being born six weeks premature.
Cork N’ Bottle and has several other establishments at CVG feature a wide variety of Kentucky bourbons. They love beer here, too. And the airport has partnered with the Christian Moerlein Taproom to make the bespoke JET CVG beer.
Need a souvenir? Of course you do.
Cincinnati’s unofficial mascot is a winged pig, which celebrates the city’s pork processing past.
CVG’s shops carry everything from piggy banks to chocolate pig “poop”.
CVG also boasts some new shops and amenities, including a Be Relax spa (at B16), The Scoreboard sports memorabilia shop (B10) and the Gaslight Market for travel necessities.
Walk this
way at SEA
If all goes according to plan, on Thursday night workers at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) will hoist this 900-foot long aerial walkway into place 85 feet above an existing taxi lane to connect the South Terminal with the new International Arrivals Facility.
When completed, this will be the longest aerial walkway over
an active taxiway in the United States.
Heading to the Super Bowl in Miami?
To meet passenger demand and help fans get to the big game, some airlines are putting larger aircraft into service on key routes and adding extra flights.
United
Airlines will offer 29 additional nonstop flights to Miami from its seven U.S.
hubs including Los Angeles, plus seven special point-to-point flights between
Kansas City and Miami.
American Airlines announced extra flights to Miami (MIA) from Kansas City (MCI), San Francisco (SFO) and San Jose (SJC). American will also add larger aircraft — Boeing 777-200s — to Miami from its hubs in New York (JFK), Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW), Los Angeles (LAX) and Chicago (ORD).
Between January 30 and February 3, JetBlue will add more than a dozen flights between San Francisco International
Airport (SFO) and Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL).
From January 30 to February 4, JetBlue is adding
ten flights between New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)
and Fort Lauderdale (FLL).
On Friday, January 31
Southwest Airlines has five nonstop flights scheduled instead of the
regular two from Kansas City (MCI) to Fort Lauderdale (FLL). The airline will
add a bonus nonstop flight between San Jose, CA (SJC) and Fort Lauderdale (FLL)
as well.
On Monday, February 3, Southwest will send five flights from FLL
back to MCI and the bonus nonstop flight to San Jose from FLL.
Spirit Airlines and Delta Air Lines are adding extra flights to and from Miami as well.
— San Francisco International Airport (SFO) ✈️ (@flySFO) January 21, 2020
And the Heinz Ketchup brand is offering to pay all but 57 cents of the $200 airline change fee for 300 Tennessee Titans and Green Bay Packers fans who bought tickets to Miami before their teams lost out.
*From 11:30 a.m to 1:30 p.m. CVG is inviting community members to stop by the Airport Viewing Area to watch planes take off and land and enjoy a family-friendy outing with the Kona Ice truc, the CVG fire truck, games and other activities.
*From 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. CVG and Graeter’s Ice Cream will be greeting arriving passengers with samples of ice cream. There will also be a performance from ArtsWave Presents and aviation-themed giveaways in the terminal.
Mural honoring Wright Brothers – at Tampa International Airport
On National Aviation Day, one of my traditions is to remember Katharine Wright, Orville and Wilbur’s sister, who was often referred to as “The Third Wright Brother.”
Don’t know about her? That’s because Orville tried to have Katharine’s role in the brothers’ accomplishment erased from history.
Here’s a short feature story I produced about Katherine Wright back in 2003 for National Public Radio as part of my Hidden Treasures Radio Project series.
