Archive for the 'Airports' Category
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
Ever thought about taking your sex toys with you on an airplane? The San Francisco Chronicle put together this excellent guide about handling sex toys and air travel and luggage. Here’s a sample:
If you’re one of the 500,000 (half a million!) people traveling to San Francisco for this year’s Pride Parade, before you [...]
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Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
The New York Times has this one:
A terminal at Kennedy International Airport was evacuated on Saturday afternoon after a man apparently used a restricted doorway, a breach that delayed dozens of flights and threw the airport into disarray as hundreds of people were rescreened, the authorities said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/nyregion/17JFK.html
Via @ChrisLevinson
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Now, with the internet, there will soon be an information-niche for everything. The Guide to Sleeping in Airports has their territory staked out loud and clear. No need to guess what you’re going to get from them, no. Cheap? Homeless? Can’t afford a hotel? Check out their tips and lists of airports to sleep in [...]
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Okay, so last weekend I was at the airport in Denver, waiting for my plane, taking advantage of the free wifi. Only, nothing’s free, and DIA pays for some of the cost of providing free wifi by displaying ads with every page you load. I did my American duty and clicked on some of the [...]
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
DelayCast is a new flight data aggregator that goes one step beyond crunching numbers. It predicts the likelihood that the flight you book will find itself delayed.
From their site:
Use our on-time prediction engine to help you book your flights. We’ve built mathematical models of the U.S. air transportation system to predict delays and [...]
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
United States Airport Code information from the U.S. Department of Transportation:
Albany, New York, Albany International (ALB)
Albuquerque, New Mexico, Albuquerque International Sunport (ABQ)
Allentown, Pennsylvannia, Lehigh Valley International (ABE)
Amarillo/Borger, Texas, Amarillo International (AMA)
Anchorage, Alaska, Ted Stevens Anchorage International (ANC)
Atlanta, Georgia, Hartsfield Atlanta International (ATL)
Atlantic City, New Jersey, Atlantic City International (ACY)
Austin, Texas, Austin-Bergstrom International (AUS)
Baltimore, Maryland, Baltimore/Washington [...]
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Friday, November 2nd, 2007
Now who knows how many airplane pilots take naps in the cockpit. It’s joked about sure, so when it lands in the realm of printed fact it’s easy to get excited. The Rocky Mountain News published the article Pilots asleep on DIA approach today. It’s about what seems to be Frontier airlines pilots on a [...]
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
USA Today has news on the latest from the TSA and the airport security process in the article New scanners help ease carry-on hassles:
The hassle of removing laptops from cases and of taking shampoo, toothpaste and liquids out of carry-on bags is ending for some travelers at a handful of airports that are testing the [...]
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Monday, September 17th, 2007
MSNBC put together a list of the ten easiest airports in the U.S. to get to. Here’s how it breaks down:
Boston Logan
Washington Reagan National
San Francisco International
New York John F. Kennedy
Minneapolis-St.Paul International
Chicago O’Hare
Philadelphia International
Portland International
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International
Baltimore/Washington International
(via BikeDenver)
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Saturday, June 30th, 2007
NPR breaks down a bunch of modern air travel myths. Seems that today’s airplane passenger has a few too many rusty ideas about the way things oughta work. These are a few of my favorites:
Nothing is more thrilling and glamorous than modern jet flight.
When you purchase a ticket, you expect to travel to the city [...]
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