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Cherry Blossom Season in DC. And at Dulles.

03/23/23

It’s cherry blossom season in many parts of the country right now. And in Washington, DC the National Cherry Blossom Festival is in full swing. Festival events are scheduled through mid-April. But the National Park Service declared Thursday, March 23 as the day that the cherry blossoms around the Tidal Basin reached peak bloom. Travelers →

Holidays

Travel Tidbits from Airports Near You

11/15/22

Airlines Fined for Not Giving Refunds on Time On Monday, the Transportation Department fined a half-dozen airlines more than $7 million for failing to provide timely refunds to customers. The DOT said the six airlines have also now collectively paid more than half a billion dollars to people who were owed a refund due to →

Airlines

Airports not giving up on Twitter just yet

11/07/22

Hundreds of airports around the world use Twitter as one of their tools to share news and updates with the public. The social media site is in flux (to say the least) at the moment. But for now, it’s still a great way to find out at a glance what some of our favorite airports →

Airport Terminals

Travel Tidbits From An Airport Near You

11/02/22

TSA May Still Make You Wear A Mask The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a ruling that allows the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to require mask-wearing on planes, trains, and other forms of transport. The TSA stopped enforcing a mask mandate in April of this year after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s →

Events

Airport news from here and there

12/22/21

MKE’s Coat Check service, holiday decor, & Santa sightings Check your winter coat at MKE One of the smartest, best, and most reasonably-priced seasonal airport amenities has returned for a third winter to Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport (MKE): coat check service. Offered in partnership with Paradies Lagardère inside the pre-security SummerfestMarketplace, the service allows travelers →

Holidays

Put your name on Helsinki Airport. Plus more airport & airline news.

12/02/21

Want an airport named after you? It’s easy. In Finland Dulles International Airport. John F. Kennedy International Airport. Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport. It’s a big deal to have an airport named for you. In Finland, though, anyone can have Helsinkin Airport named for them. At least for a few moments. Finavia Corporation, which manages →

Holidays

Stuck at the Airport is marking Mask Monday

08/23/20

Wearing a face mask – and having an assortment of masks to choose from is now the new normal. And Stuck at The Airport is gathering examples of what airports are doing to put their mark on their masks and their efforts to remind travelers to wear their masks. To kick off the ‘collection,’ we →

Health

Payback: TSA workers set up food banks, by meals for airport employees

04/13/20

Updating this story as new examples arrive. During the partial shutdown of the federal government in 2019, many TSA employees continued to show up for work despite missing paychecks. To help them out, airport employees, airlines and airport concessionaires around the country joined with social service agencies and the local community to stock pantries with →

Nintendo’s pop-up airport lounges

02/18/20

Calling all Nintendo fans. Or anyone wanting some entertainment while they’re stuck at the airport. Nintendo has rolled out a cluster of pop-up game lounges at four airports just in time for the spring break travel season, The Nintendo Switch On The Go pop-up airport lounges are at Washington Dulles (IAD), Seattle-Tacoma International (SEA), O’Hare International →

DC-area airports celebrate Cherry Blossom season

03/29/19

The DC area is celebrating peak cherry blossom viewing season and both Reagan National and Dulles International Airports are celebrating as well. →

Events

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