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Travel Tidbits from IAD, ORD and Midway Airports

05/02/13

Dulles International Airport is marking Asian-Pacific Heritage Month with a series of musical performances and educational events, including girl groups from South Korea, traditional Japanese Taiko drums; Gangnam Style dancing and other traditional Filipino, Afghan and Indian performances. The full schedule is listed here. May is also Military Appreciation Month at Chicago’s O’Hare and Midway →

Long flight? How to sleep, have fun and get work done

05/01/13

The folks at Air New Zealand have run the numbers, tallied the comments and somehow interpreted the pie charts and pictures from the in-flight focus group about jet-lag (and more) that I participated in on an ANZ flight from Los Angeles to London. Here’s a handy infographic of our group’s advice on packing, dressing and →

Surprising best-sellers at airports

03/20/13

Although it’s been 20 years since the debut of the romantic comedy film Sleepless in Seattle, gray and pink nightshirts sporting the movie’s title are still among the bestsellers at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA), with 9,000 of the shirts sold last year. “Some of us scratch our heads about its appeal,” said Randi Sibonga, who →

Travel Tidbits: Symphony at IND + “Creeper” at BNA

03/07/13

Art and music in an airport is always a great idea. Here are two fresh offerings: To help ease passengers into Spring Break travel, Indianapolis International Airport (IND) will be hosting a performance by a quintet from the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra on Monday afternoon, March 11 from 5:3o to 6:30 pm. The quintent will perform →

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More stuff spotted at the Travel Goods Show in Las Vegas

02/28/13

I spent two full days this week walking up and down the aisles of the giant Travel Goods Show in Las Vegas. A few of the fun items soon to be in stores and gift shops – including 3-D rolling bags featuring SpongeBob Squarepants and friends – were posted yesterday here on StuckatTheAirport.com. Here are →

Airports & airlines work hard to return lost items

11/03/12

As a recent NerdWallet study points out, the amount of luggage lost by airlines spikes during the holiday travel season. But passengers do their fair share of losing things on airplanes and in airports year-round. In 2011, for example, the lost-and-found department at Portland International Airport (PDX) logged nearly 16,000 misplaced objects. So far this year, passengers have →

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TSA finds are frightening

10/01/12

I’m just now getting around to taking a good look at the TSA Week in Review from last week Inert hand grenades, inert training detonators, knives hidden inside the lining of someone’s carry-on… it’s all getting to be so strangely familiar. The same goes for last week’s tally of loaded (25) and unloaded (4) guns. →

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The future of in-flight entertainment? Sort of up in the air…

09/27/12

While a short promotional movie called Howdy Chicago was shown to passengers on an plane that flew over the Chicago World’s Fair in 1921, there were no regular in-flight movies until 1961, when Trans World Airlines (TWA) began offering that novel perk to its first-class customers. Video games (1975), seat-back video (1991) and live in-flight →

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Museum Monday: Louise Nevelson sculptures at airports

09/24/12

For years, this work by Louise Nevelson titled “Night Flight 1” has been on display at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The work used to be in a very public part of the terminal but, while still accessible, is now located in the lobby area of the airport’s conference center on the south mezzanine. Now another airport →

Lufthansa rolls out the dirndls and lederhosen for Oktoberfest

09/22/12

Oktoberfest season is getting underway and that means many passengers on international Lufthansa flights from Munich to New York, Charlotte, Hong Kong and other destinations will have a chance to be served by crew members dressed in special Oktoberfest costumes. It’s a tradition that’s been going on for the past 50 years. Lufthansa reports that →

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