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20 airports you can visit without a plane ticket

01/05/26

Airport guest pass programs allow non-ticketed guests to go through the security checkpoint and access the secure side of a terminal to dine, shop, see the art and spend more time with family and friends. Currently, about 20 airports offer this service. And each airport has its own set of rules for how many guests →

Harriet Baskas

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Holiday videos from Icelandair and Austrian Airlines

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Updated airline policies for change/fee waivers due to flight reduction mandate

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Wee Delft Blue house marks KLM’s 106 birthday

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News from Air Canada + Korean Air + More

Reno-Tahoe Int’l Airport ready for Burning Man

08/24/25

Thousands of the 70,000 to 80,000 people attending the Burning Man 2025 festival in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert will arrive and depart via Reno-Tahoe International Airport (RNO). And, as it has in the past, the airport is ready for the Burning Man visitors. The airport partners with Air Playa Info to host a welcome table in →

Relax in cool rocking chairs at Bradly Int’l Airport

08/20/25

Bradley International Airport (BDL) now has 9 new painted rocking chairs in the terminal, thanks to some creative high school students from Connecticut and Western Massachusetts. In the spring, the airport gave nine participating schools unfinished wooden rocking chairs with an invitation to paint the chairs with a design that represents their town or state. →

Celebrating National Aviation Day

08/19/25

A quick round-up of some fun and educational items for National Aviation Day, celebrated each year on August 19 – Orville Wright’s birthday. Here’s a fun throwback from Pee-wee’s Playhouse. From the SFO Museum archives This popped up when we clicked “random object” on the SFO Museum’s Aviation Collection website. Give it a try and →

Travel tidbits: SAS deals + SFO’s audio walkway

08/18/25

The summer sale at Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) runs through Tuesday, August 26 with some very inviting discounted routes from John F. Kennedy (JFK), Boston Logan International Airport (BOS), Miami International Airport (MIA), Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) and Toronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ) to destinations in Scandinavia and Europe. Discounted travel can be made now for →

News from Air Canada + Korean Air + More

08/17/25

Air Canada flights on, then off On Sunday afternoon, Air Canada said it was suspending its plan to resume limited flying by Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge after striking flight attendants represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) defied the government’s back-to-work order. Instead, the airline says it now plans to resume →

Air Canada braces for a strike

08/14/25

Your options if you have an Air Canada ticket Air Canada’s negotiations with CUPE, the union representing 10,000 flight attendants on Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge, aren’t going well. And if no agreements can be made, a strike is expected to begin Saturday, August 16 at 01:00 ET. In preparation, the carrier began a →