If you’re traveling to or through JetBlue’s Terminal 5 at JFK airport on Thursday, August 11, 2011, boy are you in luck.
At 3:30 pm, cast members from the Broadway musical Catch Me If You Can will be presenting a free performance featuring six excerpts from the musical.
The musical is based on the film that was based on the life of Frank W. Abagnale, Jr., who forged checks, posed as a pilot, a doctor and a lawyer, and generally lived the high life until getting busted by a determined FBI agent.
Maybe it’s the heat. Or the humidity. Whatever it is, there are some wacky travel stories floating around out there today.
A naked swimmer was nabbed near JFK airport, a mom was briefly jailed in Tennessee for yelling at TSA staff at Nashville Airport and refusing to let her child go through the scanner or get a pat-down and, my favorite, the FBI was called in to meet a Southwest Airlines flight arriving at Salt Lake City Airport and arrest a passenger who got unruly when told repeatedly that he could not “smoke” his electronic cigarette.
And then there’s the threat of this weekend’s “car-maggedon” in Los Angeles.
Gridlock – and worse – is predicted due to the scheduled 53-hour closure of a chunk of Interstate 405.
The highway shutdown will certainly disrupt traveler to and from Los Angeles International Airport and, on its website, the airport has a 405 Freeway Alert page offering tips and advice. In addition to suggesting that travelers take the Flyaway bus to the airport or get a hotel nearby, the advisory lists four different helicopter companies that will provide special weekend service to and from the airport.
Unfortunately, one alternate transportation option offered by JetBlue is already sold out.
The airline was offering $4 flights (each way) between Burbank and Long Beach Airports.
See – sometimes the truth IS stranger than fiction.
What can you do when you’re stuck at the airport? Eat!
Lucky for you there are some new dining options at several U.S. airports.
If you’re hungry at JFK’s Delta Terminal 3 and don’t want to give up that seat you finally found by the power outlet, starting Thursday, May 5th they’ll be an app for that.
HMSHost and Airside Mobile are launching the B4YouBoard iPhone App that will let you use your smartphone to order food, pay for it and have it delivered to you within 20 minutes (they promise) at six delivery zones inside the terminal.
The service will expand in the future, but for now the app will only work at JFK’s Delta Terminal 3, only on iPhones and only if you want to eat something from Balducci’s Food Lover’s Market or Chili’s Too between noon to 8 pm.
Still, if it’s a busy afternoon and you’ve finally found a seat and spread out your stuff, you can see how having in-airport food delivery – to eat there or take on the plane – might be very convenient.
Elsewhere…
The first airport outlet for Papa John’s is open at the food court in Charlotte Douglas International Airport. On the menu: an 8-inch “Papa’s Pizza for One.”
It’s Souvenir Sunday at StuckatTheAirport.com. That’s the day we take a look at the fun, inexpensive and “of” the city souvenirs you can pick up when you’ve got time to spend at an airport.
And, while they’re not “of” New York City, these cute kitty-bunnies caught my eye.
If you find a great souvenir next time you’re Stuck at the Airport, please take a moment to snap a photo, jot down some notes (price, why you love it, etc.) and send it along.
If your souvenir is featured on Souvenir Sunday, I’ll send you a special travel souvenir.
Finished shopping? If you’re in Terminal 3 at JFK, be sure to visit the iPad village.
I knew they were there somewhere. But they weren’t by my gate in the Delta Air Lines terminal at JFK.
And there weren’t any signs.
So it was a good thing I set off in search of an outlet to charge my laptop before a long flight.
Because there, just a few minutes walk from where I’d been sitting, was the iPad “village” everyone had been talking about a few months back.
Tables for one. Tables for two. Communal work tables. All equipped with multiple outlets and with iPads that let travelers order snacks and meals from the restaurants nearby.
So very civil.
So, please, Terminal 3 operators, put up some signs.
