The Philadelphia International Airport is having a summer-long customer appreciation festival. Throughout the summer, passengers can hang out in the Chillin’ Zone by Gate D-4 – And each week there’s a fresh line-up of events. Here’s what coming up next. On Friday, July 29, Swing Shift will be strolling through the airport playing Dixieland, blues […]
In my msnbc.com column this week –Fresh airport amenities make the wait fly by – I offered a run-down of some of the programs and services air travelers can take advantage of this summer. One amenity that didn’t make it into the story is self-service ice-cream sundae machine at Boston Logan International Airport. Using a […]
Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) has kicked off its summer-long “Just Plane Fun” program and well, it looks like fun. Last week, just in time for the busy 4th of July holiday travel weekend, PHL announced that the airport-wide Wi-Fi service would now be free. Now that’s fun! This week? Well, there’s not much that can […]
The Philadelphia International Airport is having a summer-long customer appreciation festival. Throughout the summer, passengers can hang out in the Chillin’ Zone by Gate D-4 – And each week there’s a fresh line-up of events. Here’s what coming up next. On Friday, July 29, Swing Shift will be strolling through the airport playing Dixieland, blues […]
In my msnbc.com column this week –Fresh airport amenities make the wait fly by – I offered a run-down of some of the programs and services air travelers can take advantage of this summer. One amenity that didn’t make it into the story is self-service ice-cream sundae machine at Boston Logan International Airport. Using a […]
Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) has kicked off its summer-long “Just Plane Fun” program and well, it looks like fun. Last week, just in time for the busy 4th of July holiday travel weekend, PHL announced that the airport-wide Wi-Fi service would now be free. Now that’s fun! This week? Well, there’s not much that can […]
Nancy Coplin, the music coordinator at the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, has an enviable and very important job. The airport has four performance venues and eleven live concerts each week and she’s the one in charge of the schedule. In Austin, of course, you can’t spit without hitting a Grammy-winner or two, so when Nancy drops […]
Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport has more than 100 shops, an equal number of cafes, pubs and restaurants, casinos, a Yotel, a great art collection and a branch of the Rijksmuseum that’s currently showing the Sunny Skies exhibition, featuring nine works by Dutch 17th century landscape artists inspired by the Italian landscape. Speaking of inspiration, Schiphol’s Cone […]
Elements, the newest exhibit at the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS), includes painting “with gravelly texture, collages layered with translucent, water-like colors, leafy items frozen in motion and metal coins fused together in hot wax.” Hot wax? The work of four Austin artists – Sharon Kyle Kuhn, Kristy Darnell Battani, Michelle Belto, and Jacqueline May – […]