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More airport freebies – for people & pets – for Thanksgiving travel

11/24/09
It may be stressful traveling this week through the nation’s airports, but there are some freebies and special events being rolled out that you may find useful and entertaining. In addition to the events we listed yesterday at Boston’s Logan International Airport and Detroit Metropolitan Airport, you’ll find: Two days of free valet parking at →

Free Wi-Fi at Cleveland Airport and new napping suites at Atlanta Airport

11/19/09
Cleveland Rocks! Kudos to the Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport  (CLE) and the non-profit group OneCommunity for working together to bring permanent free Wi-Fi to the airport. Cleveland Airport joins many other smart airports that offer travelers free Wi-Fi year round.  And, lest you forget, from now through January 15, 2010, Google is covering the Wi-Fi fees →

Atlanta Airport goes green for America Recycles Day

11/13/09
Airports all over the country have on-site recycling programs. My home airport, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA), in fact, just won an award for the recycling efforts of the airport’s concessions, which recycle, re-use and compost everything from cardboard to coffee grounds and donate enough food to area food banks to feed more than 8,000 families →

Great spots for plane-spotting

11/11/09
I recently put together a USATODAY.com column highlighting some of the observation decks at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP), Baltimore-Washington Thurgood Marshall International Airport (BWI), and other North American airports. Today I’ve got a column about plane-spotting sites outside airport terminals. The sites listed range from Millbrae, California’s Bayfront Park, which offers great views of →

Next time you’re stuck at the airport, don’t get bored: get vaccinated.

09/17/09
The vaccine for the H1N1 vaccine isn’t available quite yet, but there are plenty of regular, seasonal flu shots around. And this year there are also plenty of airports where you can get a flu shot on the fly.  I tracked down the details for my At the Airport column on USAToday.com: Airports ready for →

LAX hungry for Pink’s; ATL makes art accessible

07/30/09
Chile dog lovers alert. No dogs have been sold and no firm opening date has been announced, but fans of Pink’s Hot Dogs are all atwitter over the fact that the legendary Hollywood eatery will be opening its first airport outlets at Los Angeles International Airport’s (LAX) Tom Bradley International Terminal (TBIT) “later this year.”  →

Stuck at Atlanta Airport? Don’t forget about all the art.

07/06/09
If you’re traveling through Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport this summer, keep in mind (especially during long layovers) that there more than 250 works of art and several history displays throughout the airport. In addition to an exhibit about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. there’s an impressive of collection of more than twenty sculptures by a →

Airport pub crawl: sure path to jet-lag AND a hangover

04/25/09
Jet-lag (when you’re “internally desychronized”) is no fun. It’s vexing when you’ve arrived in a new city at 6 a.m. and can’t keep your eyes open.  It’s maddening when it jostles you awake at 3 in the morning. There are plenty of jet-lag remedies floating around out there. Some work. Others work only if you →
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