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Tidbits for travelers at MIA and PHL

05/17/10
This would be fun to watch:  American Airlines is donating a 140-passenger MD-80 aircraft to the George T. Baker Aviation School in Miami. To get the plane to the school they going to lift the 39-ton plane from a ramp at Miami International Airport up over a road using a 500-ton crane equipped with a →

Mother’s Day offers at three airports

05/06/10
Indiana’s South Bend Regional Airport will be celebrating Mother’s Day all weekend by offering all traveling mothers free coffee or tea and a choice of a free coffee mug or a travel sewing kit. There may even be free carnations as well. The details: Throughout the weekend, traveling moms can stop at the airport’s Visitor Center →

Dance at ORD & MDW, drop your pants at PHL

03/12/10
Ready for St. Patrick’s Day festivities? The Chicago airports are. Today, Friday, March 12, Irish dancers from the Trinity Academy will perform at both O’Hare International Airport (ORD) and at Midway International Airport (MDW). Performances will be 3 to 5 p.m. at O’Hare (in Terminals 1, 2, 3, and 5) and at Midway in Concourse →

Tidbits for travelers: news from JAX, PHL, and ATL

02/17/10
On Valentine’s Day, volunteers at Jacksonville International Airport (JAX) handed out 1700 red and white carnations to arriving and departing passengers. (Photo courtesy Jacksonsville International Airport ) On Tuesday (February 16, 2010) Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) had a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new Terminal E expansion, which includes seven gates for Southwest Airlines and several →

New art exhibit at Philadelphia Int’l Airport uses nails and thread

10/19/09
The newest exhibition at Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) is Kim Kamens’ Photobooth. Instead of using paint, pen or pencils, Kamens uses carpenter nails and sewing thread to make her art. PHL Director of Exhibitions, Leah Douglas, says: Kamens’ carefully orchestrated methodology is analogous to drawing as the linear quality of the thread wound from point →

Philadelphia Int’l Airport: Private Collections/Personal Obsessions exhibit

09/23/09
Do you collect anything? Baseball cards, stuffed monkeys, or small soaps from hotels? If you’ve got three or more of something – or 3000 of anything – then you’ll be especially interested in the fun new exhibit at Philadelphia International Airport (PHL). (Enamel Pins – collected by Patti Dougherty) Private Collections: Personal Obsessions includes selections →

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 →

Baseball exhibit at Philadelphia Airport

07/03/09
Philadelphia International Airport’s newest exhibit is all about baseball. “Philadelphia’s Baseball Legends: The Championship Teams,” includes b&w and color photographs that tell the stories of Philadelphia’s champion baseball teams and the individual players, including many who are in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. The exhibit is located post-security in Terminal A and officially opens →
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