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Stuck at the Airport goes to London

07/31/22

The Stuck at the Airport team is in London this week on a trip organized by our friends at Gatwick Airport (LGW). The assignment? Find out if it’s easy to land at Gatwick Airport on a flight from the U.S. See if it’s easy to take public transit to and from the airport to London, →

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Off to Gatwick. But first, bumper car rides at JFK

07/29/22

Stuck at the Airport is heading to London today for a week-long adventure organized by airport mascot Gary Gatwick and his friends at Gatwick Airport (LGW), who suspect that not that many Americans don’t know the airport is just half an hour from downtown London by express train. Or that gin is distilled at the →

Hotels

Roller skating is back at JFK’s TWA Hotel

03/18/22

Fans of roller skating, fun at-the-airport activities, and the landmark TWA Hotel at JFK Airport (i.e.: everyone) will be looking forward to the return of the hotel’s retro-style roller skating rink. The Roll-A-Rama at the Runway Rink opens for the season on April 15. The checkered rink is located by the hotel’s 1958 Lockheed Constellation “Connie” →

Roller skating at JFK Airport? Yup, at the TWA Hotel

05/26/21

Air travel is back on, but what about fun activities at airports? That’s back on too. At least at New York’s JFK Airport, where the TWA Hotel adjacent to Terminal 5 is operating a summer roller rink next to the hotel’s 1958 Lockheed Constellation “Connie” airplane. A 50-minute skating session costs $20 per adult and →

“Runway Chalet” now at JFK’s TWA Hotel

01/09/20

The 512-room TWA Hotel across the street from the JetBlue terminal at JFK Airport tempts travelers with a retro lobby complete with clacking flight board and the Sunken Lounge lobby bar. Through February, the hotel has an ice-skating rink set up out back, right next to the 1958 Lockheed Constellation Connie airport-turned-cocktail lounge. (Skating fee: →

Hotels

3 airports where you can go ice-skating this winter

11/14/19

What’s better than an airport with an ice-skating rink? Three airports with ice-skating rinks, of course! Denver International Airport (DEN) is bringing back its free outdoor skating rink for the fourth season. Starting November 22, DEN’s ice-skating rink will be in the pre-security area on the DEN Plaza, which is between the airport terminal and →

Holidays

Airports going off the grid

11/03/19

Should airports go off the grid? Pittsburgh Int’l Airport – and others – think so. Remember that 11-hour power outage at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in December 2017? The blackout canceled hundreds of flights, stranded thousands of passengers and cost Delta Airlines alone an estimated $50 million in lost business? Since then power outages linked →

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