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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

Airports

The Newsletter

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Airport and Airline Resources

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Alaska Airlines’ big, bold Boeing plane order

Planes to fly, places to go & cool things to see

Holiday videos from Icelandair and Austrian Airlines

Despite headwinds, global airlines expect a profitable 2026

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

Shutdown fallout: FAA will reduce air traffic by 10%. Starting Friday

Wee Delft Blue house marks KLM’s 106 birthday

Travel tidbits from airlines, airports & the U.S. governnment shutdown

News from Air Canada + Korean Air + More

Airports mark Star Wars Day – May the 4th

05/04/25

Star Wars fans celebrated the unofficial holiday of Star Wars Day on May 4th and airports worldwide got into the spirit with fun in-terminal events and online posts. Here’s a round-up of some of the posts we spotted, including one from the National Air & Space Museum reminding us that one of the 400 mailboxes →

How to save time, money – and sanity – at the airport

05/02/25

Spending time at an airport can be fun, romantic, educational, acceptable or downright frustrating. And perhaps, like us, you’ve been frustrated or even reduced to tears by an airport experience once or twice. But there are ways to make your airport experience more enjoyable – or at least less exasperating. This site, Stuck at the Airport, →

Travel tips

This rap video is a love song to the PDX wooden roof

05/01/25

We already know the ZGF-designed expansion of the main terminal at Portland International Airport (PDX) made a very cool airport even cooler. Now the amenities and features in the new terminal space, most notably the 9-acre mass timber roof, have inspired a fun rap video. “‘PDX (Wooden Roof),” described in a press release as “the →

Tiny tour of Pittsburgh International Airport’s new terminal

04/29/25

Pretty much everyone who flies to or from Pittsburgh, PA is looking forward to the opening of the new landside terminal at Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT). This $1.5 billion project is about 80% complete and will wrap up later this year with an opening date set for fall. The Stuck at the Airport team stopped →

Alaska Airlines trading cards + Where we’d go

04/28/25

How to get Alaska Airlines’ new pilot trading cards Airports have them. Delta Air Lines has new ones. Even the therapy animals that roam airport concourses have them. Now Alaska Airlines has issued a new set of trading cards that you can collect too. On World Pilot’s Day (April 26) the carrier debuted a new →

Whimsical Wonders at Pittsburgh’s Heinz History Center

04/25/25

Our first stop in any new city is often the local history museum. It’s a good way to get our bearings, learn what’s important to locals and discover the events that have shaped the place we’ve come to explore. In Pittsburgh, the sprawling 6-floor Heinz History Center fills that role. It’s Pennsylvania’s largest history museum →