On the road but no time to visit the art museum? Don’t fret: along with fine dining, boutique shopping and full-service spas, top-notch art collections are now permanent amenities at many airport terminals. For a slide-show on MSN.com, I pulled together examples of some of the fun stuff you’ll find in 15 airports in North […]
Hola! It’s fiesta-time at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) this month in preparation for May 1st, when American Airlines begins non-stop service from DFW to Madrid. Last week, passengers in Terminal D got to nibble on free tapas. For the next few weeks, the party will feature Spanish dancers, musicians and entertainers performing in Terminal […]
Good to know: at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport the new healthy food outlets, UFood Grill and Urban Taco, are fry-free (except for the chips at Urban Taco). And, according to their Web site, the DFW Cereality Cereal Bar and Café is the company’s only cereal bar not co-located with a Cold Stone Creamery. Cereal and […]
If you’re at Dallas/Forth Worth International Airport (DFW) this week, don’t be too alarmed if an airport employee comes up to you and shakes your hand. It’s all part of customer appreciation week at the airport and to celebrate they’ll be handing out discounted coupons for parking (the valet parking coupon also offers food and […]
It’s been a bad week for air travel and I’m sure everyone who’s been very, very good this year is worried that Santa will get stuck at the airport along with all those other folks who’s flights have been canceled. Your friends and family may not be able to get a flight in time for […]
In some parts of the country the buzz at the airport has been all about the forecast of snow. But at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport they were on the lookout for a giant jackal-headed god. (Anubis and friends photo courtesy DFW’s Brian Murnahan) They weren’t disappointed. DFW International Airport welcomed the ancient Egyptian jackal-headed god […]
On the road but no time to visit the art museum? Don’t fret: along with fine dining, boutique shopping and full-service spas, top-notch art collections are now permanent amenities at many airport terminals. For a slide-show on MSN.com, I pulled together examples of some of the fun stuff you’ll find in 15 airports in North […]
Hola! It’s fiesta-time at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) this month in preparation for May 1st, when American Airlines begins non-stop service from DFW to Madrid. Last week, passengers in Terminal D got to nibble on free tapas. For the next few weeks, the party will feature Spanish dancers, musicians and entertainers performing in Terminal […]
Good to know: at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport the new healthy food outlets, UFood Grill and Urban Taco, are fry-free (except for the chips at Urban Taco). And, according to their Web site, the DFW Cereality Cereal Bar and Café is the company’s only cereal bar not co-located with a Cold Stone Creamery. Cereal and […]
If you’re at Dallas/Forth Worth International Airport (DFW) this week, don’t be too alarmed if an airport employee comes up to you and shakes your hand. It’s all part of customer appreciation week at the airport and to celebrate they’ll be handing out discounted coupons for parking (the valet parking coupon also offers food and […]
It’s been a bad week for air travel and I’m sure everyone who’s been very, very good this year is worried that Santa will get stuck at the airport along with all those other folks who’s flights have been canceled. Your friends and family may not be able to get a flight in time for […]
In some parts of the country the buzz at the airport has been all about the forecast of snow. But at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport they were on the lookout for a giant jackal-headed god. (Anubis and friends photo courtesy DFW’s Brian Murnahan) They weren’t disappointed. DFW International Airport welcomed the ancient Egyptian jackal-headed god […]
While the folks at NORAD are busy tracking the whereabouts of a roly-poly guy named Santa, folks heading to the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport should be on the lookout for a ten-ton, 26-foot-tall statue of Anubis, the ancient god of mummification and the dead. Airport officials say the statue, complete with a giant candy cane […]
Lexus has those self-parking cars, so why not self-parking airplanes? According to this article from the Star Telegram.com, the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport has equipped about 90 gates with an auto-docking system that allows some American Airlines planes to park at the gates without the aid of ramp workers standing there waving orange sticks. For […]
The folks at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) are having a party to celebrate the grand reopening of Founders Plaza, an airport landmark and a great airplane viewing spot the Dallas Morning News once called the city’s “Best Place to Make Out.” The “new and improved” Founders Plaza covers twice the space of the former […]