Portland International Airport

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The Stuck at the Airport team is exploring all the scheduled routes SeaPort Airlines flies in Oregon and Washington, beginning with a quick trip from Seattle’s King County International Airport (BFI) to the Business Aviation terminal right next to Portland International Airport (PDX). For this quick trip we saved significant time by taking advantage of […]

Rarely does an airport terminal make you want to move (or, in our case, move back) to a city. Or make you cry. But those are the emotions evoked by the Portland International Airport’s (PDX) new main terminal. Not that old main terminal was so terrible. We loved that one too. But for different reasons […]

Here’s reason #1027 why we love Portland International Airport (PDX). Homegrown Straightaway Cocktails now has a bar at PDX where passengers can get a bite to eat and enjoy a mixed drink. And when it’s time to fly, travelers can take those same cocktails to go in small bottles or cute 4-packs of cans. The […]

Alaska Airlines debuts a new ‘wow’ lounge at Portland Int’l Airport There are a million reasons to love Portland International Airport (PDX). And now there’s one more. Alaska Airlines, which serves its Portland hub with more than 100 daily departures, officially opens its new PDX lounge on Thursday, June 4. The approximately 14,000-square-foot lounge is […]

Here’s are some of our favorite travel-related items that arrived in the Stuck at the Airport mailbox this week. Happy to have more…. Our very own KLM special edition miniature Delft building A few weeks back, KLM celebrated 80 years of flying between Amsterdam and New York City with the reveal of a limited-edition miniature […]

The Stuck at the Airport team is exploring all the scheduled routes SeaPort Airlines flies in Oregon and Washington, beginning with a quick trip from Seattle’s King County International Airport (BFI) to the Business Aviation terminal right next to Portland International Airport (PDX). For this quick trip we saved significant time by taking advantage of […]

Rarely does an airport terminal make you want to move (or, in our case, move back) to a city. Or make you cry. But those are the emotions evoked by the Portland International Airport’s (PDX) new main terminal. Not that old main terminal was so terrible. We loved that one too. But for different reasons […]

Here’s reason #1027 why we love Portland International Airport (PDX). Homegrown Straightaway Cocktails now has a bar at PDX where passengers can get a bite to eat and enjoy a mixed drink. And when it’s time to fly, travelers can take those same cocktails to go in small bottles or cute 4-packs of cans. The […]

Alaska Airlines debuts a new ‘wow’ lounge at Portland Int’l Airport There are a million reasons to love Portland International Airport (PDX). And now there’s one more. Alaska Airlines, which serves its Portland hub with more than 100 daily departures, officially opens its new PDX lounge on Thursday, June 4. The approximately 14,000-square-foot lounge is […]

Here’s are some of our favorite travel-related items that arrived in the Stuck at the Airport mailbox this week. Happy to have more…. Our very own KLM special edition miniature Delft building A few weeks back, KLM celebrated 80 years of flying between Amsterdam and New York City with the reveal of a limited-edition miniature […]

***Updating as we learn of more Air traffic controllers’ paychecks are not affected by the current partial government shutdown. However, more than 60,000 Transportation Security Administration staff must report for work, even though there are no paychecks for them in the pipeline going forward as the shutdown continues. Security checkpoint lines may start growing at […]

Airline food. These days it’s not something many people would make a special trip to eat. And, unless you’re lucky enough to be flying in the upfront cabins on the best airlines on their most competitive routes, it’s a good chance that you won’t even be offered anything more than a cookie and soft drink […]

Those charming therapy llamas, Panda and Beni, will be pretending to be reindeers at Portland International Airport (PDX) this holidy season with visits starting Tuesday 24 and repeating every week until Christmas with visits scheduled on December 3rd, 11th, 18th and 23rd. The lovely llamas start their visits in the pre-security area of the main […]

We already know the ZGF-designed expansion of the main terminal at Portland International Airport (PDX) made a very cool airport even cooler. Now the amenities and features in the new terminal space, most notably the 9-acre mass timber roof, have inspired a fun rap video. “‘PDX (Wooden Roof),” described in a press release as “the […]