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Delta Air Lines will mail love letters penned on certain flights

02/10/26

We told you how Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport (OAK) and Southwest Airlines are teaming up to provide and mail Valentine’s Day postcards for free. That offer ends on Wednesday and is an option only at OAK. Now, inspired by Friday’s general release of the new Wuthering Heights film, Delta Air Lines is encouraging travelers →

Holidays

News from 1 airline, 1 airport + a hotel lobby

01/13/26

Delta Air Lines makes a big order for Boeing 787-10 Dreamliners Last week the big airline news was all about Alaska Airlines’ big Boeing plane order. This week Delta Air Lines jumps in with it own big news. The carrier will add the Boeing Dreamliner to its longhaul fleet with an order of 30 new →

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Delta is rewarding kind and courteous travelers

12/08/25

It’s not just the DOT that wants airline passengers to be kind and courteous this holiday season. Delta Air Lines has rolled out a Centennial Cheer program for the holiday that will reward travelers for assorted moments of kindness. The campaign caps off Delta’s 100th Anniversary Celebrations and is designed to encourage, recognize and reward →

Events

New safety video celebrates 100 years of Delta Air Lines

03/23/25

As part of its celebration of 100 years of flight, Delta Air Lines is debuting a new in-flight safety video. The video covers all the important FAA-required safety points, of course. But the new video also takes passengers on a tour through the history of air travel and the evolution of Delta’s logo and the →

Safety videos

Travel Tidbits for a new week

05/08/24

Here are some travel tidbits from the Stuck at the Airport inbox to help you ease into the week, including music and travel advice, contests for travel adventures and, of course, airport news. Hello Kitty Day coming to Oracle Park EVA Air is teaming up with the San Francisco Giants to host Hello Kitty Day →

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Airlines offer travel advisories/waivers for weather & 737-9 MAX inspections

01/09/24

Between the storms in many regions of the country and the grounding of all Boeing 737-9 MAX aircraft for inspection, there are a lot of flight cancellations, schedule disruptions, and airline travel alerts. Here are links to the current travel advisories and waivers (as of early Tuesday, January 9, 2024) in effect for some of →

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Flight display board has info just for you

07/19/22

At Detroit Metropolitan Airport (DTW), one flight display board gives passengers very personalized messages. It seems sort of sci-fi, but thanks to a technology named Parallel Reality, up to 100 people at a time can look at one of the giant digital screen that usually displays dozens of flights and instead see just their own →

Technology

MSP Airport’s Mock Airplane Cabin

06/29/22

(This is a story we first wrote for NBC News) Long delays, rampant cancellations, and packed planes have turned air travel into an endurance sport for even the most seasoned travelers. And the challenges can be even greater for the more than 25 million Americans with disabilities that make travel difficult even in ordinary times. A handful →

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This airport lets you reserve your security checkpoint time

05/03/21

Now you can reserve your time on the TSA line at SEA Airport (This is a slightly different version of a story we wrote for USA TODAY) The good news: air travel is picking up. On Sunday May 2, TSA screened more than 1.6 million passengers, the most since March 12, 2020. The bad news: →

Security

Travel Tidbits: smuggled finches, Iceland adventures, middle seats, and more

03/31/21

There does indeed seem to be an uptick in travel and travel news. Here’s some of what we spotted today. Delta Air Lines will stop blocking middle seat starting May 1. They were last US airline still blocking middle seats. Delta also announced on Tuesday that it is extending the expiration date on travel credits →

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