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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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Slot machines at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport???

07/18/08

Last week I wrote in Portfolio.com about the unusual ways some airports have found to earn income – such as growing and selling hay planted on airport acreage to signing contracts to allow outside companies to drill for oil and gas underneath airport ground. That article also noted that, for some time now, Reno-Tahoe International →

Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport

How to avoid getting booted off an airplane

07/17/08

Earlier this month, Wendy Slaughter, her four young kids and her pregnant sister were scheduled to fly on Southwest Airlines from Detroit to Seattle via Phoenix. They got as far as Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. That’s where airport police met the flight and informed Slaughter that Southwest had deemed her family’s onboard behavior too →

Heads up! Volleyball Tournament at Munich Airport

07/17/08

750 tons of sand will soon be trucked into the Munich Airport Center forum for a volleyball tournament. From August 1 through the 17th, the Munich Airport Center Forum will host “Rio on Tour,” which will feature professionals and amateurs “digging, volleying and smashing on three courts.” (Photo courtesy Munich Airport) For the first three →

Munich Airport

Looks what’s popped up at Chicago O’Hare International Airport

07/16/08

Garrett Popcorn Shops, well-known and much loved around Chicago for more than 50 years now, has opened its first airport location at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. This first branch is in Terminal 3, near Gate H1. Another branch should pop up soon in Terminal 1, between Gates B9 and B10. In addition to the cheese-flavored →

Chicago O'Hare International Airport

Want your name on an airport?

07/15/08

In an effort to replace the revenue they used to get from airlines, some airports have found they can earn cash from slot machines, t-shirts, oil rigs and acres of hay. In my article about this for Portfolio.com, I also found two airports where the naming rights are up for sale. →

Rock out at Germany’s Munich Airport

07/14/08

You may still be recovering from last weekend, but the folks at Germany’s Munich Airport are already planning next weekend’s activities. On July 19th and 20th, the covered, open-air Munich Airport Center Forum is hosting openairport, “the first rock and pop festival ever to be staged at a major European airport.” Admission will be free →