Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics

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Airports in Reno, Toronto and Dusseldorf pay tribute to Winter Olympics

02/09/10
(Eddie ‘The Eagle’ Edwards at the world’s largest ski jump inside an airport) Airports around the world are marking this year’s Winter Olympics in Vancouver with special exhibits. Yesterday, the Reno Tahoe International Airport (RNO) opened an Olympics museum inside the terminal. This past weekend, Düsseldorf  International Airport trucked in tons of snow to make →

Get ready to “Apolo-ize” yourself at SEA and PDX

02/02/10
Are you getting excited about the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver? The folks at Alaska Airlines are. Today (Tuesday, February 2, 2010), airline representatives will be at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) and Portland International Airport (PDX) asking passengers to help cheer on speed skater and Pacific Northwest native Apolo Ohno by “Apolo-izing” themselves with free →

Vancouver Int’l Airport gets ready for the 2010 Winter Olympics

01/28/10
The opening ceremonies for the 2010 Winter Olympics are just around the corner, and final details are hurriedly being worked out and set in place in downtown Vancouver, up at Whistler and at various venues and attractions throughout the region. It’s particularly exciting out at the airport. Vancouver International Airport will be the first stop →

Tidbits for travelers: YVR’s Olympic rings & Air New Zealand’s Skycouches

01/26/10
The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics kick off in just a few weeks and Vancouver International Airport (YVR) is getting ready to welcome more than 230,000 athletes and Olympics-bound visitors. Actually, the airport has been sprucing up for quite a while. In addition to its swanky new Observation Gallery, the airport has had these giant Olympic →

Tidbits for travelers: Free Wi-Fi, Olympic travel tips, and in-flight body-mass tax

01/20/10
We want Wi-Fi Slowly but surely airports large and small are getting with the program and making free wireless Internet access available in the terminals. The latest major airport to join the party: Boston Logan International Airport (BOS). Hooray! Packing tips from Olympic athletes Curious about what some Olympic athletes do when they’re traveling – →

Happy Souvenir Sunday from: Vancouver International Airport

01/17/10
In February, Vancouver, B.C. will host the 2010 Winter Olympics Games and, as you might expect, everyone up there is pretty gosh darn excited. That includes the folks at Vancouver International Airport (YVR). During the course of the winter games, the airport expects to host about 230,000 Olympics-bound passengers. On March 1, the day after →

Souvenir Sunday: Olympics souvenirs at Seattle-Tacoma Int’l Airport (SEA)

12/20/09
Happy Souvenir Sunday! Each Sunday here at StuckatTheAirport.com we take a look at some of the fun things you can buy at airports for under $10. This week we picked up a few souvenirs from the upcoming Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics that will be taking place in February. Olympics souvenirs will be sold at the →