Airports
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by Scott Carmichael (RSS feed) (18 hours 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) (21 hours 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) (21 hours 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) (1 day 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) (1 day 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) (2 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 ...

by Aaron Hotfelder (RSS feed) (3 days ago)
People love to complain about the dismal state of air travel these days. Whether it's the stomach-churning airline food (and there's so little of it!), the complete lack of leg room, or the fact that your luggage was for some reason routed through Honolulu, we've come to ...
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by Tom Johansmeyer (RSS feed) (6 days ago)
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Breakups are tough, but we always seem to get through them. Whether it's strip clubs or buckets of ice cream, there are plenty of coping mechanisms. The latest is to move into an airport. I ...

by Alison Brick (RSS feed) (7 days ago)
Is it just me or is it a little early for a winter snowstorm? The Denver International Airport (DIA) had to cancel flights yesterday due to blizzard conditions. It was just too difficult to keep runways and taxiways clear, so United canceled about 200 of its 400 flights ...

by Brenda Yun (RSS feed) (9 days ago)
Here's a travel tidbit for you guys: Did you know that it was 95 years ago that the first rapid transit subway, the IRT, opened in New York City?
We have certainly come a long way in a century, and 95 years from now we'll be just as astound at how travel times have ...

by Grant Martin (RSS feed) (11 days ago)
Airline nostalgia is a hobby of many hobbyists out in the travel world. I know that I've got an unwrapped deck of NWA playing cards from a 747 flight before the airline merged with Delta, and others I've met have collected things ranging from silverware to barf bags to life ...
![Relive 1960's air travel with Plane Talk]()
by Grant Martin (RSS feed) (11 days ago)
It's fun looking back at the way that air travel used to be in the 60's. We all love to reminisce about the good old days of "space" in first class, three course meals, pianos and smoking lounges, but things as simple as the airline paint schemes, styles and strategies are ...
![How do <em>you</em> prepare for your flight?]()
by Grant Martin (RSS feed) (12 days ago)
Everyone has their own pre-flight ritual to make the upcoming torture bearable. I personally wander over to the lounge, check my email and try to make sure that I'm top of all of my active projects. Others have a more, well, active ritual. This guy at LAX was drawing such a ...

by Scott Carmichael (RSS feed) (13 days ago)
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A Priority Pass survey of frequent business travelers has revealed what many of us knew all along - London Heathrow is the worst ...

by Jamie Rhein (RSS feed) (14 days ago)
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There's one lucky newborn baby and mom living in Malaysia. The mother, a 31-year-old Malaysian woman, added excitement and drama to an ...

by Jamie Rhein (RSS feed) (14 days ago)
Missing a highway exit, thus driving well past it and needing to turn around may be common, particularly if a driver is feeling spaced out and road hashed. Missing an airport, thus flying past it, is unusual. Even so, it happened this past Wednesday. A Northwest Airlines ...

by Sean McLachlan (RSS feed) (14 days ago)
This week's announcement by the British Airports Authority that it will sell London's Gatwick Airport has everyone wondering about the future of the city's second busiest hub.
The BAA, owned by the Spanish group Ferrovial, sold Gatwick for £1.5 billion ($2.49 billion) ...

by Aaron Hotfelder (RSS feed) (15 days ago)
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I think this cartoon from the creative folks at xkcd.com brilliantly illustrates the often-ridiculous "Security Theater" practiced by the ...
![Mileage runs, Flyertalk and obsessive compulsive flying: a film project]()
by Grant Martin (RSS feed) (15 days ago)
Those who are remotely close to airline world have probably heard the term "mileage running" or have listened to a brief tirade about upgrades or lounge access at some point -- and many of you have probably tuned it out. For those of you genuinely curious about the industry ...

by Scott Carmichael (RSS feed) (16 days ago)
Celebrity chef Masaharu Morimoto has partnered with a restaurant operator to bring a new Asian inspired food concept to US airports. The concept is called Skewers, and it will feature a variety of meat and vegetables on...skewers, of course. The meals will be served with ...
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