Some airports are making plans to participate in Earth Hour – one hour on March 28th when perhaps a billion people around the world will be turning off lights and unplugging whatever they can.
Toronto Pearson International Airport got involved last year and will do so again this year. In fact, an airport spokesperson told The Star that there were some lights that got turned off last year that never got turned back on – and no one noticed.
I’m going to try that in my house!
It’s easy to get distracted at the airport. But here’s a reminder from the Vancouver Sun about why it’s especially important to make sure your wallet is safely tucked away:
Visitors to [Toronto’s] Pearson International Airport are being targeted by an organization of South American pickpockets, who stole as much as $500,000 last year, authorities said Tuesday. Peel Regional Police believe the group is responsible for as many as 175 thefts in the past year. Over the past year, more than 17 suspected members have been arrested, most recently three Colombians on Dec. 20.
Greetings from Toronto, where travelers heading to Montreal, Newark, Chicago – and soon several other U.S. cities – are discovering they can skip the trek out to Toronto Pearson International Airport. Instead, an increasing number of folks are taking the short (really short; three minutes max) free ferry ride to Toronto City Centre Airport (TCCA), located on an island just off downtown Toronto.
TCCA is served by regional carrier Porter Airlines, which offers travelers a free downtown shuttle to the terminal dock, free ferry rides to the terminal, and a bevy of complimentary amenities inside the terminal, including a lounge stocked with free wireless internet access, complimentary coffee/tea/soft drinks, and a business center with multiple workstations.
Passengers are allowed to check two bags for free and in-flight service on the 70-seat turboprop airplanes includes complimentary drinks (including beer and wine), small meals and/or snacks.
In addition to a variety of Canadian destinations, Porter serves Newark Liberty International Airport and, as of this past Wednesday (Nov 12) Chicago’s Midway International Airport. They have plans to expand to other U.S. cities, so stay tuned.
It’s all very put together. Right down to the pillbox hats worn by the female flight attendants, whose uniforms were designed by Pink Tartan, a well-known Toronto and New York based fashion brand.
(Photo courtesy: Porter Airlines)
The folks in the Origami Society of Toronto are a talented bunch. Check out these creations they’ve carefully folded and placed on display at the Toronto Pearson International Airport.
(Photos by Ross Reynolds; Origami by the members of the Origami Society of Toronto)
Last summer, these two dinosaurs from the Royal Ontario Museum took up residence in the Terminal 1 International Arrivals area of Toronto’s Pearson International Airport.
The display features an “action” scene of a large Allosaurus bearing down on an Othnielia that has tripped to the ground. But it doesn’t include the ‘given names’ of these two creatures.
So the airport has been running a ‘Name the Dinosaurs’ contest.
I’ve suggested Bert & Ernie or Thelma and Louise.
Think you can come up with better names? Hurry and send them in. The contest deadline is October 31.
You can get more details and enter the contest here.
And don’t forget: there are also dinosaurs on display in at least two other airports in North America:
A giant replica of a Brachiosaurus skeleton towers over the Field Museum store in Terminal One at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport and, at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, there’s a replica of a 33-foot-long dinosaur in the airport atrium. The Yangchuanosaurus skeleton is on loan from Atlanta’s Fernbank Museum of Natural History.
