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SFO Airport remembers Virgin America. Do you?

12/17/23

Remember Virgin America? The carrier began operating in 2007 and became a passenger favorite thanks to leather seats, cool cabin mood lighting, premium entertainment systems, a super-catchy award-winning safety video (see below), and its high-energy flight and ground crews dressed in hip, casual uniforms. Virgin America’s planes had cool names, such as Jefferson Airplane, Legally […]

DEN’s new Capital One Lounge +SFO’s newest exhibit

11/05/23

Traveling to or through Denver International Airport (DEN) soon? Certain Capital One cardholders and anyone willing to buy a $ 65 single visit pass can now spend their airport dwell time in the comfy Plaza Premium Lounge on Concourse A, on the mezzanine level near Gate A34. Amenities include local artwork, plenty of comfy seating […]

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Travel Tidbits: Fresh Art at SFO

08/17/23

(Dancing figure by Gabriel Bien-Aimé, Courtesy SFO Museum) A new exhibition from the SFO Museum at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) celebrates the Haitian art form of cut-metal sculpture. The exhibit, titled The Enduring Spirit of Haitian Metal Sculpture, is located pre-security in the International Departures Hall at SFO. Here’s some background on this art form, […]

Museum Monday at LAX and SFO airports

07/23/23

Say “Hi, Barbie!” at Flight Path Museum at LAX A visit to the Flight Path Museum and Learning Center at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is an avgeek delight anytime. Located on LAX property, a short drive or taxi ride from the terminals, the museum includes one of the largest airline uniform collections, as well […]

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The latest from the SFO Museum

05/18/23

If you miss your flight at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) blame it on the curators of the SFO Museum. At any one time, there are perhaps 20 top-notch exhibitions on view throughout the terminals, spanning everything from vintage radios and Victorian wallpaper to all manner of aviation history. And each exhibit will make you […]

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From the SFO Museum: Matchbooks & Air Sickness Bags

05/03/23

The SFO Museum at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) has more than 150,000 objects related to the history of commercial aviation and to the airline industry. As part of its 52 Objects series this year, they’ve pulled out this matchbook showing the route map for Continental Airlines. Squeezing as much as possible onto a promotional […]

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Some of SFO Museum’s #52 Objects

03/01/23

As far as we know, San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is one of just two airports in the country that has an onsite museum program accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. (Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport is the other one.) Pretty much everything the SFO Museum displays in the terminals from its own collection […]

Airline playing cards on National Playing Card Collection Day

10/16/22

October 17 is National Playing Card Collection Day and we know that many travelers have fond memories of the free decks of playing cards some airlines would hand out to passengers. We found these images of some of those decks in the marvelous, searchable online collection of the SFO Museum at San Fransisco International Airport […]

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Airline aprons. The kind you wear.

07/20/22

We’re big fans of the treasures in the collection of the SFO Museum at San Francisco International Airport (SFO). And of the museum’s searchable online database. This tweet, about the museum’s collection of more than 100 flight attendant smocks and aprons sent the Stuck at the Airport fashion reporter down a very deep rabbit hole […]

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