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

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Walk on the beach at Miami International Airport

06/26/08

OK, maybe you can’t get to the beach just yet, but Miami International Airport is bringing a bit of the beach to you. An exhibition of 25 large-scale luminous photographs of sea-shells by Iran Issa-Khan is on display along the moving skywalk on the 3rd level between concourses D-F. Coming this fall: an exhibition of →

Miami International Airport

Fear of flying …objects

06/25/08

Former Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart has a message for us: Duck! Next Monday (June 30th) is the 100th anniversary of the Tunguska Event. On that day in 1908 an asteroid or maybe a comet – nobody really knows what – fell from the sky and devastated about 800 square miles of Siberian forest. You →

Money for airports

06/24/08

While airlines are having well-publicized financial woes, many airports are doing quite well. One reason: travelers spend money when they’re stuck at the airport. Another: both general aviation and commercial airports figured out long ago that they need to diversify their income. Leases for farming, hotels, and golf courses on airport-owned land are popular. But →

Think your plane flight is too long?

06/23/08

The folks at AASHTO, the American Assoc. of State Highway and Transportation Officials, remind us that on June 23, 1931, aviation pioneer Wiley Post and navigator Harold Gatty set out on a record-breaking flight. Traveling in Post’s single-engine monoplane, nicknamed Winnie Mae in honor of Post’s daughter, the daring duo left Roosevelt Field in New →

Flying this summer? Take notes.

06/22/08

Now that summer travel is in full swing, I bet Gregg Rottler will be getting lots of e-mail. Rottler gathers tales of air travel woe and posts them, neatly and without editorial comment, on his Web site: Flights from Hell.com. He does it partly to give frustrated travelers someplace to share some truly outrageous stories, →

Philadelphia Int’l Airport offers relief for pets and their people

06/20/08

Good news for pets and their people traveling to or through Philadelphia International Airport (PHL): there are now seven Pet Port “relief areas” at the airport. According to a PHL release, each fenced Pet Port is between 250 and 600 square feet and is landscaped with a 4-inch deep mulch surface, a bench, a fake →