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03/20/22

SFO’s Wag Brigade Gets a Bunny Most airports that had them before the pandemic have now brought back their teams of stress-busting therapy animals to the terminals. A great example is SFO’s Wag Brigade, which is made up of about a dozen cute pups, a pig named LiLou, and the newest member of the team, →

Animals

Santa’s helpers at Spokane Int’l Airport? The TSA.

12/13/10

TSOs at the Spokane International Airport cheerily processed dozens of children and a 100 or so elves on their way to a flight headed for the North Pole. →

Going to the North Pole as an embedded elf

12/11/10

Spokane's Fantasy Flight to the North Pole takes 60 disadvantaged kids on a plane flight to meet Santa. →

Embedded with the elves: North Pole Fantasy Flights

12/24/09

The security checkpoint at Spokane International Airport is usually a quiet, orderly place. But earlier this month “It was a mad house,” says TSA screener Julee McCully. Carolers were crooning Christmas classics in the terminal lobby. Eighty of Santa’s elves were trying to get sixty kids from this year’s “nice” list through security for secret →

Reason to fly? Offbeat holiday celebrations

12/23/09

Why leave home this time of year? To visit friends and family, of course, but also to make your way to some of the towns and cities around the country that celebrate the holidays in an unusual way. For a column on MSNBC.com this week, I found about a dozen truly offbeat holiday celebrations, including →

Holidays

Greetings from the North Pole

12/13/09

Yesterday I had the great honor of joining more than 60 kids from Spokane, Washington on a quick trip to the North Pole. We flew, of course. On a special Alaska Airlines flight. And for most of those kids it was their first time going to the airport, the first time flying on a plane, →

Greetings from the North Pole International Airport

12/04/08

A bit of aviation history, courtesy of NORAD, The North American Aerospace Defense Command. The agency launched its multi-lingual NORAD Tracks Santa (NTS) Web site on Monday so that we can all stay up-to-date on Santa’s whereabouts. Long before the Wright brothers flew the first airplane or the Montgolfier brothers launched the first hot air →

History

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