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Stuck at the airport – with music

12/26/08
On Christmas day, travelers were met with antlered flight attendants on airplanes and gate agents dressed like elves at airports. All quite fun and festive, but most airports had shut down the official live holiday entertainment for the day. (Courtesy: Golden Gate Bell Ringers) Scheduled music and theatrical performances should start back up this weekend →

Airport art: definitely worth a look

12/10/08
Next time you’re at the airport, take a moment to look around. Not just at all the shops, restaurants and harried holiday travelers, but at all the really great art. (Photo: From Inside Track exhibit; courtesy San Francisco International Airport) In addition to some truly wonderful – and valuable – collections of permanent and site-specific →

Love the layover: vintage toy trains at San Francisco International Airport

11/11/08
A new exhibition at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is all about trains. (New York Central Railroad with alphabet blocks (push toy) 1885-95; Collection of Rod Cornell) Inside Track presents more than 200 vintage toy trains and accessories-including two miniature train layouts. In addition to realistic-looking trains, there are specialty items such as Mickey Mouse →

A musical summer close-out at SFO

08/28/08
Fridays have been very festive at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) this summer, thanks to the airport’s “You are Hear” concert series. But now that the summer is ending; so is the music. The last concert takes place this Friday (August 29) between 11 am and 3 pm on three stages throughout the airport (two →

Forbes confirms: We’ll all be stuck at the airport

06/04/08
In her Forbes article titled “America’s Most Time Draining Airports,” Rebecca Ruiz reports on the Forbes analysis of 2007 Bureau of Transportation statistics for 100 of the largest airports. (The full table of delay statistics is here.) No surprise – Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport (ORD) tops the list as “the nation’s worst airport for delays.” →
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