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Fresh airport art from SFO, PHL, & Albany Int’l Airports

04/20/22

SFO Museum presents an exhibit about art from pineapple leaves At SFO: From Pineapple to Piña: A Philippine Textile Treasure The newest exhibit from the SFO Museum at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is about textiles made from pineapple leaves. “Unique to the Philippines, piña is an extraordinary textile made by weaving the fibers of →

SFO’s plastic water bottle ban.

08/15/19

The ban on the sale of single-use plastic water bottles at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) goes into effect on September 20th. The move requires all airport retailers, restaurants, airline lounges, and vending machines to sell or provide water in recyclable aluminum, glass or BPI-certified compostable bottles. The policy applies to purified water, mineral water, →

Food

Marking the 50th anniversary of Summer of Love

05/13/17

Where to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love - starting at SFO Airport. →

Events

Travel Tidbits: airports offer art, history & music

07/09/15

Milwaukee’s General Mitchell International Airport has a new piece of art – a kinetic work by Tim Prentice called Slalom in the baggage claim area. The piece includes a gently undulating ribbon of reflective kinetic elements that float overhead and weave through the building’s support columns and will create an “ever-changing sequence of varied and →

Airports adding – and rejecting – ride-shares

11/14/14

Airports across the country are grappling with how to deal with taxi-alternative services and Transportation Network Companies (TNCs) such as Uber and each week a few deals are being made. This week San Francisco International Airport (SFO) announced an agreement with Wingz, a company that connects citizen drivers with people needing airport rides. The pilot →

SFO makes deal with Sidecar

10/15/14

In a first for California, San Francisco International Airport (SFO) and Sidecar have come to an agreement that allows the Transportation Network Company (TNC) to operate legally at the Airport. The permit, which allows the company to drop off and pick up customers at SFO, represents the first airport TNC agreement in the state of →

Transportation

Yoga: now at Chicago’s Midway Int’l Airport

09/08/14

September is National Yoga Month, which makes it great timing for the Chicago Department of Aviation to open the promised yoga room at Midway International Airport. Located on Concourse C, Midway’s new yoga room has a sustainable bamboo wood floor, floor to ceiling mirrors on one wall, exercise mats and an area to store personal →

Sports

Detour for Sidecar & uberX at LAX & SFO

01/31/14

Detour for Sidecar & uberX at LAX & SFO →

ground transporation

Travel contests: because you can’t win if you don’t play

03/01/13

I’m a big believer in “you can’t win if you don’t play,” so here are a few contests to enter with great travel adventures as prizes: From now through March 8th, 2013 San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is celebrating Scandinavian Airlines’ (SAS) new non-stop service to Copenhagen with a Facebook sweepstakes (and a strange little →

Contests

Exhibition of souvenirs at San Francisco International Airport

01/10/13

Tokens of travel come in all forms: from photos and hotel keys to shells, rocks, postcards and handcrafted or mass-produced souvenirs. Keep that in mind as you enjoy the new SFO Museum exhibition at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) filled with mementos from the nineteenth century to the present, including sailors’ valentines, world’s fair souvenirs, →

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