Airports

by Jamie Rhein (RSS feed) (1 day ago)
If you've ever seen a lava flow, you know that once the stuff cools and hardens, it's hard to move. In the Congo, this has created a big problem at the airport in Goma. Back in 2002, when the Nyiragongo Volcano erupted, lava flowed onto the runway, thus shortening it. A ...

by Tom Johansmeyer (RSS feed) (2 days ago)
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Tipping's a tough nut to crack. Should you tip a housekeeper? Back in the day, the rule was leaving some cash only if your stay was 30 days or ...

by Heather Poole (RSS feed) (3 days ago)
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With Thanksgiving fast approaching and Hanukkah, Christmas, and New Year's following right behind it, more people than ever ...

by Scott Carmichael (RSS feed) (9 days ago)
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It was only a matter of time, but H1N1 fear has finally spread to the airlines.
Yesterday, United Airlines passenger ...

by Jamie Rhein (RSS feed) (9 days ago)
Jason Barger already knew a fair amount about people before he headed off his 7-day, 7-airport travel spree to do nothing but watch them interact. He'd spent many a spring break leading adolescents and adults on house-building ventures in Mexico, a trip that took him through ...

by Jamie Rhein (RSS feed) (9 days ago)
It wasn't a wolf's huffing and puffing that led to the demise of a pig on the runway at the Harare International Airport in Zimbabwe last Tuesday. Nope, it was a MA60 60-seater attempting to take off. The wild bush pig may or may not have seen the Air Zimbabwe plane coming. ...

by Scott Carmichael (RSS feed) (10 days ago)
A United Airlines pilot was pulled from his plane yesterday on charges that he was about to fly to Chicago while drunk.
After he failed a breathalyzer test, he was arrested and subsequently released on bond. United did not release the name of the pilot, but did confirm an ...

by Jamie Rhein (RSS feed) (10 days ago)
Back in April, Gadling reviewed Step Back from the Baggage Claim, a book Jason Barger wrote about human behavior based on a seven- day trip he took to seven airports without leaving any of them.
For the entire week he observed how people conduct themselves in airports and ...

by Scott Carmichael (RSS feed) (10 days ago)
Starting November 10, 2009 , and ending January 15, 2010, Google is giving holiday travelers free WiFi access at 45 airports.
The list includes major airports like Las Vegas, Seattle, Boston and Orlando, but sadly does not include some of the largest in the country, like ...

by Catherine Bodry (RSS feed) (10 days ago)
I'm schooled in squirming and shifting, shoving my toes in-between the seats in front of me, and generally attempting insane yoga positions in order to get some shut-eye on an overseas flight. As such, I've discovered two techniques that have helped ease my international ...

by Tom Johansmeyer (RSS feed) (10 days ago)
The holidays are coming, and if your plans involve travel, expect to lose large chunks of your youth to the painful ritual of waiting in line. Aside from the occasional ascetic masochist, nobody digs the ol' "hurry up and wait" game. Yet, you'll be doing plenty of standing ...

by Scott Carmichael (RSS feed) (12 days ago)
It may appear that we tend to pick on the TSA a lot here on Gadling, but the agency is just a never ending source of stuff for us to write about. The latest incident involving the people that run airport security comes from Northwest Florida Regional Airport.
Several ...

by Scott Carmichael (RSS feed) (13 days ago)
Screening airline passengers in a wheelchair has often been a bit of a hot topic. For some reason, people get wound up when they see the TSA searching every corner of a wheelchair, as if disabled people should automatically be trusted and allowed to pass through without a ...

by Jamie Rhein (RSS feed) (13 days ago)
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by Scott Carmichael (RSS feed) (14 days ago)
Airport security took a bit of blow this week when Britney Spears passed through LAX security carrying... a Big Gulp! I'm not a big fan of paparazzi (or Britney Spears for that matter), but the underlying story is interesting enough to deserve a closer look.
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by Heather Poole (RSS feed) (14 days ago)
Heather,
Yesterday the flight attendants got terrible news at US Airways. THREE base closures. Mine included. In all these years, I've never commuted. And now, gone early next year: BOS, LGA and LAS. We got the news in the crew room. Some of the senior girls started ...

by Tom Johansmeyer (RSS feed) (14 days ago)
It sounds counterintuitive, right? Normally, customers expect that extra effort, and we complain constantly that we don't get it enough. What we sometimes don't understand, though, is that the extra effort is at the root of many of the customer service problems we encounter. ...

by Tom Johansmeyer (RSS feed) (15 days ago)
If you were to steal 1,000 pieces of luggage, where would you keep it all? Wherever they shoved the bags, Keith Wilson King and Stacy Lynne Legg-King saw the police pull them out of their house one-by-one and stack them in the yard. The duo had been pinching luggage from the ...

by Catherine Bodry (RSS feed) (15 days ago)
This long layover is my third at Incheon International Airport, and I couldn't be happier about it. On my first trip, I emerged bleary-eyed after a 10-hour flight, desperate for a bathroom and bottle of water. Wandering through the sleek white halls, I spotted a sign with an ...

by Katie Hammel (RSS feed) (16 days ago)
I hate airports. I hate sitting around and waiting, and I hate being unable to escape the thought that soon my plane will be the one zooming down the runway and lifting off into the sky. So rather than arrive early to the airport and allow myself time to get anxious about ...
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