Souvenir Sunday: best airport souvenirs of 2010
Airports everywhere are scratching about for new sources of revenue, but few have gone the route of marketing a line of airport-specific souvenirs. And who can blame them? Most people just wouldn’t pay good money for a memento to remind them of time spent stuck at the airport. But for several years now the Sioux […]
For a long time, the folks at Iowa’s Sioux Gateway Airport weren’t so happy about their airport code, which is SUX. The town tried trading the code for something better. But then someone figured out that, given the sorry state of air travel these days, being called SUX doesn’t really have to suck; especially if […]
It’s my second week as guest contributor for the Airport Check-In column over at USA TODAY. This week’s topics include new registered traveler lanes at the D.C. airports, new self-select “diamond lanes” at security checkpoints in Boston, Orlando and Spokane, Washington, and the free local and toll-free phone service offered at Iowa’s Sioux Gateway Airport. […]
Airports everywhere are scratching about for new sources of revenue, but few have gone the route of marketing a line of airport-specific souvenirs. And who can blame them? Most people just wouldn’t pay good money for a memento to remind them of time spent stuck at the airport. But for several years now the Sioux […]
For a long time, the folks at Iowa’s Sioux Gateway Airport weren’t so happy about their airport code, which is SUX. The town tried trading the code for something better. But then someone figured out that, given the sorry state of air travel these days, being called SUX doesn’t really have to suck; especially if […]
It’s my second week as guest contributor for the Airport Check-In column over at USA TODAY. This week’s topics include new registered traveler lanes at the D.C. airports, new self-select “diamond lanes” at security checkpoints in Boston, Orlando and Spokane, Washington, and the free local and toll-free phone service offered at Iowa’s Sioux Gateway Airport. […]