We continue celebrating features and amenities at airports around the country and the world with our series “5 Things We Love About …”
Today we’re visiting Reno Tahoe International Airport (RNO).
Keep in mind that some of the amenities we love may be temporarily unavailable due to health concerns. We are confident they will be back.
If we miss an amenity you love at RNO, please let us know in the comments section below.
And feel free to nominate another airport to be featured in the 5 Things We Love About… series.
5 Things We Love About Reno Tahoe International Airport (RNO)
1. RNO’s Kindness Take Flight Team
Passengers traveling through RNO often encounter members of the airport’s Kindness Takes Flight team marking a holiday or just doing something fun and, yes, kind.
On National Compliments Day they handed out free compliments.
On National Chocolate Cake Day, it was complimentary chocolate cupcakes and on National Popcorn Day (which we celebrate every day), the team distributed popcorn. And on National Dog Day, traveling pups received milk bones.
Sometimes, the teams gets a little far out. Like when they went to a galaxy far, far away for inspiration for their May the 4th Be With You celebration.
2. RNO’s Paws 4 Passengers team
Like an increasing number of airports around the country, RNO has a pet therapy program to help passengers destress while in the airport.
Before the program was put on pause (you thought I was going to say ‘paws,’ didn’t you) due to health concerns, RNO’s Paws 4 Passengers pups were “sanitized for your protection.”
3. RNO and Burning Man
Each year – except this year – about 20,000 of the 70,000 attendees at the extravaganza in the Black Rock desert known as Burning Man arrive and depart Nevada through Reno-Tahoe International Airport.
RNO goes all out to welcome and send-off the Burners from around the world. The airport rolls out everything from art and entertainment in the Connector Collections Gallery and elsewhere in the airport to staffed information booths for those who need to figure out how to get to the Burning Man site.
For tired and dusty revelers on their way home, the airport makes sure to have giant containers for the trash that must be taken off the festival site and plastic bags to wrap the luggage covered in Black Rock sand.
There is even a place where bikes purchased for transportation on the Burning Man site can be donated to local community groups instead of being thrown away.
4. Shopping at RNO
Here at StuckatTheAirport.com, we are big fans of shopping for offbeat and locally-themed items in airport shops.
RNO does not disappoint.
5. Bonus amenities at RNO
In addition to free local calls, bicycle parking and the common-use Escape Lounge, Reno-Tahoe International Airport (RNO) has real gaming machines on both concourses, in the Taphouse bartops and in the lobby of the terminal.
Did we miss any of the features and amenities you love at Reno-Tahoe International Airport?
If so, please leave a note in the comments section below. And let us know which airport you would like to see featured in our “5 Things We Love About…” series next.