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San Diego Int’l Airport expands visitor pass program

11/20/25

San Diego International Airport (SAN), which recently opened a brand new Terminal 1, is expanding its visitor pass program allowing non-ticketed guests to visit the terminals. Until now, visitors could only apply for a SAN Pass to enter Terminal 2, but now the program has been expanded to cover both Terminals 1 and 2. “If →

How to best test an airport terminal

09/21/25

You’d think that after hiring the best architects and builders and spending billions of dollars, a new airport terminal would be ready to spring into action when the work is done. But before flights begin to come and go from a new terminal, airports usually run a dress rehearsal day with volunteers pretending to be →

Snaps from San Diego Int’l Airport’s lovely new Terminal 1

09/18/25

San Diego International Airport’s existing Terminal 1, built in 1967, closes on Tuesday, September 23, and the swanky new light-and-art-filled $3.8 billion Terminal 1 officially opens. (A few flights will arrive at new T1 on the evening of September 22). Designed by the Gensler architecture firm in partnership with Turner-Flatiron, the new terminal boasts five →

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Airport amenity of the week

09/12/25

The Stuck at the Airport team spent a long day touring San Diego International Airport’s lovely new Terminal 1 facility, which is scheduled to begin hosting flights on September 22, 2025. We’ll be back with more images and information, but because it’s Friday, we’re declaring one of the SAN’s new restroom features Airport Amenity of →

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Turn travel into poetry at San Diego Int’l Airport

03/31/25

Passengers traveling through San Diego International Airport (SAN) may have their travel tales turned into poetry. Now through April 29, the airport’s Spring 2025 Performing Arts Resident, Poets Underground, will be onsite in the terminals at their luggage-inspired stage called The Great Poetic Baggage Exchange. The artists will be inviting and enticing travelers to engage in conversations and mural paintings around →

Fresh art at San Diego Int’l Airport

03/18/25

(Artist: Guillermo Arias) Mirror, Mirror exhibition at San Diego Int’l Airport Mirror Mirror, the newest temporary exhibition on display at San Diego International Airport (SAN), features more than 100 works by 16 contemporary artists from the region, all exploring the fascinating interplay between light, color, and space. (Artist: Sophia Allison) SAN’s Mirror, Mirror exhibition draws on the →

Places to go. Things to do.

01/26/25

Here are some travel tidbits to get the week started Things are looking up in Tucson You’ve likely heard of Donut Trails, Cocktail Trails, Pie Trails and Barbecue Trails. They are all good ways to explore a city or a region. Now there’s an Astro Trail in Tucson, Arizona that highlights night sky viewing options. →

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“A Necessary Departure” at San Diego Int’l Airport

07/20/23

(“Blue Corona: Sunset Dances”/Artist: Lori Hepner/Location:Terminal 2 West, Post-Security, Stone Brewery Wall) San Diego International Airport (SAN) is featuring a new temporary exhibition, titled A Necessary Departure, throughout Terminal 2 pre-and-post security. A Necessary Departure is a collection of works from 17 local artists and organizations that examines personal transformations and how the community has remade itself →

Would You Drink Beer Made With Water Dripped from Airport Air Conditioners?

12/13/22

Back in 2019 San Diego International Airport (SAN) partnered with local brewery Ballast Point and an industrial water purification company to create a special beer called SAN Test Pilot. The beer was a sellout. Even though (or perhaps because) the water for the beer came from condensate that was dripping from the bottom of air →

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Fresh Art at San Diego Int’l Airport

09/23/21

Are you sick of staying at home? Or maybe still trying to get home after being stuck somewhere due to the pandemic? Perhaps some art will help. In a new temporary exhibition at San Diego International Airport (SAN), 16 artists explore the concept of home. From the exhibit notes: “Home is a lens through which →

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