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Travel Tidbits from an airport near you

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 […]
At airports: a giant flamingo, doodles, & Disney salute

At airports: a giant flamingo, doodles, & Disney salute

09/28/21
Some birds are welcome at airports Their giant flamingo public artwork won’t arrive until 2022, but the folks at Tampa International Airport (TPA) are clearly very excited. We can’t blame them. This bird looks like it will be a stunner. PDX offering prizes for doodles There’s a lot of construction going on at Portland International […]
Airports celebrate mittens, Peeps, new terminals, and the Super Bowl match-up

Airports celebrate mittens, Peeps, new terminals, and the Super Bowl match-up

01/24/21
We spent the weekend gathering up as many social media postings we could find that featured airport-themed images of Bernie Sanders and his mittens. If you missed that, or want to see what we can up with, find the Stuck at the Airport #BernieMittens meme archive here. You may have also missed our Airport Amenity […]
LEGO masterpiece lands at PDX Airport

LEGO masterpiece lands at PDX Airport

08/15/20
A new creation by Portland LEGO artist Erik Mattson is on display at Oregon’s Portland International Airport (PDX). Mattson’s scale replica of Portland’s St. John’s Bridge is made with about 120,000 LEGO pieces and is 4-feet-tall, 2-feet-wide, and 32-feet-long. It is built to scale with one LEGO “Stud” equaling 1 foot. The only part that […]
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