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10/26/23
Fort Wayne Int’l Airport celebrates passengers with food treats Year-round, Hospitality Hosts at Fort Wayne International Airport (FWA) welcome passengers with a (wrapped) cookie from a nearby bakery. But this week, during Customer Appreciation Week, the airport has been going above and beyond by treating passengers to a different free, fun food each day. So →

FWA: 5 Things We Love About Fort Wayne Int’l Airport

02/22/21
5 Things We Love About Fort Wayne International Airport (FWA) We’re back with another episode in our “5 Things We Love About…” series highlighting features and amenities at airports about the country and the world. Today we land at Fort Wayne International Airport (FWA) in Indiana. 1. Free cookies at FWA Without a doubt, Fort →

Souvenir Sunday: Free Cookies at Fort Wayne Int’l Airport (FWA)

06/28/20
Since 2000, volunteer hosts at Fort Wayne International Airport in Indiana has been welcoming arriving passengers with free individually wrapped cookies. The cookies are made fresh by the nearby Ellison Bakery. And when the volunteers are off-duty, cookies are still available from a self-serve cookie kiosk at the security exit. Over the years, FWA Airport →

Are airports ready for the new 3-hour rule? Are you?

04/15/10
(photo courtesy Daniel Incandela) My column on USATODAY.com this month, Are airports ready for the 3-hour rule?, takes a look at how airports are gearing up for the April 29th roll-out of the new Department of Transportation (DOT) rule to upgrade protections for airline passengers. We’ve been hearing a lot from airlines – they’re not →

More fun freebies at airports

01/14/10
Free is good. And these days many small and mid-size airports are trying to build loyalty by offering travelers free amenities. In my At the Airport column this month on USAToday.com, I write (again) about the free cookies they hand out at Indiana’s Fort Wayne International Airport as well as some of the fun freebies →

Fun free stuff you’ll find at airports

01/12/10
Google’s “Free WiFi for the Holidays” program – the one that made wireless Internet access free at a boatload of airports – ends on January 15th. But don’t fret. Too much. Plenty of airports had free Wi-Fi before the promotion and continue to offer it.  And once the Google airport promotion ends, you’ll find a →

Souvenir Sunday at Indiana’s Fort Wayne International Airport

12/13/09
It’s Souvenir Sunday.  The day we unpack our bags and look at some of the fun, local , inexpensive stuff you can pick up when you’re stuck at the airport. Today we’ve got a few items from Indiana’s Fort Wayne International Airport (FWA), which this past week handed one lucky arriving passenger the millionth complimentary →

Fort Wayne International: World’s Sweetest Airport?

12/09/09
Sometime in 1998 Larry Thompson flew into Fort Wayne International Airport, walked out the front doors of the terminal and took a deep breath. “Instead of smelling jet fuel, I smelled the cookies from the bakery across the street. It was like being welcomed home.” Thompson mentioned that “Welcome Home” smell a year later, when →
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