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Travel Tidbits from an airport near you

10/18/23
New artwork to greet passengers at Salt Lake City Int’l Airport Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC) already has several large-scale artworks by artist Gordon Huether, including the 400-foot Canyon (above). Coming soon: the completion of his 90-foot outdoor art piece echoing the mountain peaks for which Utah is famous. SFO Airport is celebrating Dia de →

These airports are adding childcare centers

07/30/23
Airports wooing employees with onsite childcare (Our story about childcare centers opening at airports first appeared on NBC News) Trudi Shertzer can’t wait to bring her 8-month-old to work every day. An operations duty manager at Pittsburgh International Airport, she is counting the days until she can drop off her son at a 61-slot child →

Statues at PIT Airport Now on View for All

02/28/23
Among the amenities at Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) are three statues. The lineup includes legendary traveler and early investigative journalist Nellie Bly, founding father George Washington, and Pittsburgh Steelers legend Franco Harris. All three statues are here on loan from Pittsburgh’s Heinz History Center. And they are popular stops for selfies. But because the statues →

Help PIT Airport Mark the 50th Anniversary of Franco Harris’ “Immaculate Reception”

12/14/22
Football fans making their way through Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) love seeing the statue of former Pittsburgh Steeler fullback Franco Harris posed making the iconic “Immaculate Reception” on December 23, 1972, in a playoff game against the Oakland Raiders. That game – and the play voted the biggest play in NFL history – was 50 →

Travel Tidbits from an airport near you

07/25/22
Drama at Dallas Love Field Operations resumed late Monday afternoon at Dallas Love Field Airport (DAL) after a frightening incident involving shots fired inside the terminal building. According to Dallas police, a woman entered the airport near the ticket counter, went into a bathroom, and exited wearing a hoodie and brandishing a gun. She began →

Airport news from here and there

12/22/21
MKE’s Coat Check service, holiday decor, & Santa sightings Check your winter coat at MKE One of the smartest, best, and most reasonably-priced seasonal airport amenities has returned for a third winter to Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport (MKE): coat check service. Offered in partnership with Paradies Lagardère inside the pre-security SummerfestMarketplace, the service allows travelers →

Put your name on Helsinki Airport. Plus more airport & airline news.

12/02/21
Want an airport named after you? It’s easy. In Finland Dulles International Airport. John F. Kennedy International Airport. Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport. It’s a big deal to have an airport named for you. In Finland, though, anyone can have Helsinkin Airport named for them. At least for a few moments. Finavia Corporation, which manages →

What’s in store at Pittsburgh Intl Airport’s new terminal?

10/17/21
Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) has broken ground on a new $1.4 billion new terminal building. The project is the first new airport to be built from the ground up in the post-pandemic world. And it would be a big deal even if we weren’t coming out of a travel-stopping pandemic. With the new facility, Pittsburgh →

Airports, airplanes & Alexander Calder

07/23/21
July 22 was artist Alexander Calder’s birthday, giving us an excuse to share some photos of his work in airports and on airplanes. The photo above is of Calder in 1957 inspecting the installation of his work originally titled .125, after the gauge of the aluminum elements in Terminal 4 at John F. Kennedy International →
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