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Airport pub crawl: sure path to jet-lag AND a hangover

04/25/09
Jet-lag (when you’re “internally desychronized”) is no fun. It’s vexing when you’ve arrived in a new city at 6 a.m. and can’t keep your eyes open.  It’s maddening when it jostles you awake at 3 in the morning. There are plenty of jet-lag remedies floating around out there. Some work. Others work only if you […]

Travel tidbits: Free/green stuff from Southwest; trophy display at PHL

03/11/09
St. Patrick’s Day is on March 17th, but Southwest Airlines is celebrating almost a full week early. Tomorrow, March 12 (Thursday), three “very sprightly, very green, very enthusiastic leprechauns” will be flying to and from a variety of cities leading in-flight trivia games and passing out prizes in departure gates.  Look for them in Dallas, […]

Tidbits for travelers: PHL gets a new spa; United goes cashless; Alaska gets Wi-Fi

02/27/09
XpresSpa has opened a new location at Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) – in the International Terminal, Terminal A West – offering massages, aromatherapy products, and other personal care items.  There’s another branch of XpresSpa on Concourse C that offers massages as well as manicures, pedicures, facials, waxing and reflexology. This week United Airlines announced that […]

Book arts exhibit at Philadelphia Int’l Airport

02/02/09
Seen any good books lately? Yes: seen. A new exhibition celebrating books is on view at Philadelphia International Airport (PHL), between Terminals A and B, through the end of June. Defining Books: Multiple Perspectives includes the work of four artists –  Carol Barton, Hedi Kyle, Tom Leonard and Mary Phelan.  Each is a local artist […]

Better connections in SFO and PHL

01/02/09
Both San Francisco International Airport and Philadelphia International Airport have added connectors that make it easier to get around. At SFO, there’s a new connector bridge linking United’s Terminal 3 to the international terminal.  That’s great news not only because passengers connecting from domestic to international flights no longer need to exit the domestic terminal […]
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