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Even more airport freebies for Thanksgiving travelers

11/25/09

In addition to the airport freebies I wrote about yesterday here at StuckatTheAirport.com, we have a few more airport events and giveaways to seek out during your Thanksgiving trek through the airport: If you’re traveling through Boston’s Logan International Airport or Seattle-Tacoma International Airport today (Wed. Nov 25, 2009) look around for the “Fareologists” from →

Airplane food: apples, honey, & honeycake on El Al

09/18/09

To celebrate Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year), which begins at sundown on Friday, El Al Airlines is serving apples and honey – a New Year’s Tradition – and honey cake to travelers departing JFK and Newark airports in the U.S. and Ben Gurion Airport in Israel. The treats will be served the day before →

Food

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 →

Airport security: what’s with people?

09/14/09

According this New York Post article, last Friday, on the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Port Authority officials at New York’s La Guardia airport arrested a 40-year old man who was catching a Delta flight to Atlanta while packing a fully loaded 9mm Smith & Wesson handgun in his carry-on bag. Security officials reported →

Get a downloadable guide to JFK’s AirTrain – in Chinese or Russian

08/27/09

It makes a city seem so civilized when there’s a fast, easy, inexpensive way to get to and from the airport. The Port Authority of NY & NJ insists that the 24-hour AirTrain JFK puts JFK airport into that smart and classy category, even though taking the system is a tad complicated for an out-of-towner. →

Transportation

Undies unveiled at JFK airport

07/28/09

Stuck at JFK? Now you can while away the hours shopping for undies at the new Victoria’s Secret store in the pre-security shopping mall area of John F. Kennedy International Airport’s (JFK) Terminal 4. There’s a Victoria’s Secret store at Pittsburgh International Airport. And there used to be A Victoria’s Secret store at Washington’s Reagan →

Shopping

Tidbits for travelers: Pet park at JFK, Books at BWI

07/15/09

Pet Relief Area at JFK The Department of Transportation now requires airlines to make sure that the airports they serve have accessible pet relief areas. The law went into effect May 13, 2009, but some airlines and airports are just now finishing up the task. Last week, American Airlines officially opened a pet relief area →

Pets

Man opens airplane door: can ya’ blame him?

03/31/09

According to this article, Robert McDonald, a passenger on a Delta flight heading from JFK to Las Vegas on Sunday after arriving from Rome, is in big trouble after trying to open an emergency exit door while the airplane waited out a delay at JFK airport. Flight 149 pulled back from the gate just after →

Safety

So that’s where they went: Carbyé JFK murals moving to Miami

02/16/09

Maybe you remember the two giant murals by the Brazilian artist Carybé that used to be in the American Airlines terminal at JFK airport in New York. At 16.5 X by 53 feet they were hard to miss. The murals (below), titled Discovery and Settlement and Rejoicing and the Festivals of the Americas, were installed →

Anniversary of Beatles touch-down at JFK

02/07/09

On this day, February 7, back in 1964 the world changed dramatically: The Beatles, those adorable moptops, came to New York. (Photo: The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey) The History.com newsletter describes the momentous day this way: On February 7, 1964, Pan Am Yankee Clipper flight 101 from London Heathrow lands at →

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