Airports

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Sleep Boxes: Coming To An Airport Near You?

Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 11.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Air Travel, Airports, Sleep Box, Travel, Napping, Naps, Sleep, Yelo, Metronaps, Living News

A Moscow-based company has just released its concept "Sleep Box"--a capsule mini-hotel that you can rent for 15 minutes or longer. Perfect for sneaking in a rejuvenating nap.

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Yes, I Found Everything I !@#!$# Wanted!

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Business Life, Pet Peeves, Airport Stores, Airports, Business Travel, Airline Travel, Peeves, Business News

China is growing triple digits, Sarah Palin is topping the charts, winter is coming and my 401K is still under water. And none of these things bother me as much as the guys who run the stores at the airport.

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Google Gives Free Airport WiFi To Inspire Holiday Cheer, Generosity

Huffington Post | Victoria Fine | Posted 11.10.2009 | Impact

Read More: One Economoy Corporation, Google, Airports, Climate-Savers-Computing-Initiative, Engineers Without Borders, Free Wifi, Virgin America, Impact News

Deck the halls with free wiFi! Google's spreading holiday cheer this year is by equipping 47 airports across the U.S. with free wireless Internet, the...

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Crush It! Author Gary Vaynerchuk Hits 6 Airports In 24 Hours For Book Tour (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.30.2009 | Books

Read More: Vaynerchuk, Twitter, Books, Airport Tour, Advice Books, Airports, Gary Vaynerchuk, Personal Branding, New Books, Crush It, Professional Branding, Facebook, Gary Vaynerchuk Crush It, Branding, Wine Library TV, Books News

It's a book! It's a Vook! It's Crush It! And now it's a bird and plane too. Gary Vaynerchuk is hitting 6 airport Hudson Bookseller stores in 24 hours,...

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Spotted Reading Publicly

Amy Hertz | Posted 10.27.2009 | Books

We all have different ways of discovering books, and spotting them being read in public is just one. At Huffington Post, we are very interested in what people are reading around the country.

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Biofuels For Commercial Flights By 2010

Yahoo! News | Posted 10.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon Emissions, Biofuels, Biofuel, Fossil Fuels, Green Technology, Airplanes, Airports, Iata, Pollution, Airlines, International Air Transport Association, Global Warming, Carbon Footprint, Green News

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) said Friday it would approve biofuels for commercial flights by 2010 in a bid to drastically reduce...

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Airport Carbon Offset Kiosks Coming To A City Near You?

treehugger.com | Posted 11.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Airports, Reducing Carbon Emissions, Gavin Newsom, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Offsets, Air Travel, San Francisco, San Francisco-California, Green News

Personally, while carbon offsets may not be an ideal solution in the long-term, nor a substitute for developing ways to avoid the carbon emissions bei...

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Airlines To Begin Asking Passengers For More Information

washingtonpost.com | Spencer S. Hsu | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: FBI Watch List, Department of Homeland Security, Air Travel, Airports, Fbi, Airport Security, Airlines, Avaiation Security, Politics News

U.S. airlines on Saturday will begin asking travelers to provide their birth date and sex for the first time under a new aviation security requirement...

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Iran's "Flying Coffins"

Ali Delforoush | Posted 09.05.2009 | World

Read More: Airplanes, Airports, Us-Sanctions-Iran, Iran, Air Travel, Airlines, Iranian Airlines, World News

Until politicians in Washington take a closer look at the unintended consequences of our Iran policy, it is the people of Iran who will suffer the most.

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I'm Tired of... Flying!

Carrie Pollare | Posted 08.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Airports, Airport Security, Flying, Living News

I'm tired of flying. from beginning to end! What's next... coin operated airplane bathrooms?

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The Best And Worst Airports To Sleep In

Reuters | Posted 08.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Charles De Gualle, Guide to Sleeping in Airports, Airports, Best Airports to Sleep In, Business News

SINGAPORE (Reuters) -- On a shoe-string, stuck or just need some shut-eye? Avoid Paris' Charles de Gaulle at all costs, but embrace Singapore's Changi...

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The Monster Trip of 2009

Chris Guillebeau | Posted 08.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Aonc, South America, Travel, Chris Guillebeau, Round-the-World, Hotels, Hostels, Airports, Flying, International Travel, Living News

The nice thing about travel is that the more you wander, the more experienced you become. These days, it doesn't take me long to settle in anywhere.

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A Call for Curtains Up on "NextGen" Air Traffic Control Technology

Kathryn Wylde | Posted 08.01.2009 | New York

Read More: Airports, Technology, Air Traffic Control, Airport Delays, Nextgen, New York News

The technology provides uninterrupted, real-time information to air traffic controllers and pilots with exceptional accuracy. Using NextGen, planes can follow pre-determined flight patterns with a deviation no greater than the wingspan of the airplane.

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A Travel Writer in Defense of the CLEAR Card

Teresa Rodriguez Williamson | Posted 07.31.2009 | Living

Read More: Air Travel, CLEAR Card, Airports, Jim Moroney, Entrepreneurs, David Castelveter, Traveling, Teresa Rodriguez Williamson, Living News

It sucks. I am bummed that I have to get back in line with the screaming kids, bitching seniors, and rowdy teenagers. But then again, I could always just stay at home.

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If Pigs Could Fly: Traveling in a Time of Swine Flu

Sandip Roy | Posted 07.12.2009 | World

Read More: Singapore, Nepal, Swine Flu Pandemic, Swine Flu, Mexico, Airports, Travel, Usa, Health, Kathmandu, Air Travel, Swine Flu Mexico, World News

All US-bound passengers were handed a little gift bag. I thought it had the usual toothbrush, toothpaste and socks. Instead we got 1 disposable thermometer, 2 surgical masks and 3 wipes.

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A Note to Married Fliers

Terry Gardner | Posted 07.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Airplanes, Airports, Travel, Air Travel, Living News

Last Thursday on a night flight back from Maui to Los Angeles, it happened again. This must have been the sixth or seventh time a married woman reque...

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7 Tips For Hassle-Free Summer Travel

Karen Leland | Posted 06.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Summer Travel, Summer, Service, Airports, Airplanes, Travel, Vacation, Living News

If you feel like you're still recovering from last year's summer travel season - made memorable by incredibly long lines at the airport, long delays ...

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Fix the Airlines Instead of Bailing Out Wall Street

Don McNay | Posted 05.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Indianapolis, Wall Street Bailout, Small Business, Sales, Ronald Reagan, Img, Faa, Business Travelers, Bailouts, Cincinnati, Travel, Airport Security, Business, Southwest Airlines, Air-Traffic-Control, Airport Delays, Memphis, Dayton, Louisville, Marketing, Kentucky, Lexington KY, Delta Airlines, Northwest Airlines, Bill Clinton, Air Traffic Control, Mark McCormick, United Airlines, Washington DC, Airports, Don McNay, Harvard Business School, American Airlines, Air Travel, Airline Industry, Los Angeles, Knoxville, Bermuda, Business Travel, Deregulation, Jimmy Carter, Entrepreneurship, Airlines, Productivity, Chris Rock, Business News

I used to schedule an out of town trip then meetings the next day. Now I can't. I am not sure if I will get back or if I will get home exhausted and stressed.

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"Flying While Arab" Continues to Soar

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arab World, White House, War on Terrorism, Airport Security, Profiling, Airports, George W. Bush, Abu Dhabi, Immigration, Obama Administration, World, Flying While Muslim, World News, Arabs, Middle East, Airlines, President Bush, African Americans, Politics, Arab Discrimination, Blacks, Tsa, J.C. Watts, Barack Obama, Muslim World, Arab Americans, Driving While Black, Racial Profiling, Arab, Terrorism, Shoe Bomber, Flying While Arab, Vice President Cheney, Politics News

"Miss!" A large man with a crew cut pointed at me and exclaimed, "You have a bomb in your shoe!" This dude was talking to me. I was shocked.

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Fix the Roads to Fix the Economy

James P. Hoffa | Posted 01.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Infrastructure, Teachers, Taxes, Jobs, President Obama, Amtrak, Airports, Communities, Transit, Obama, Congress, Teamsters, Bailout, Stimulus Bill, Economy, Politics News

President-elect Barack Obama wants to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to rebuild this country's neglected infrastructure. He's right. It's really a no-brainer.

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America's Most Stressful Airports

forbes.com | Lauren Sherman | Posted 12.27.2008 | Living

Read More: Holiday Travel, Airports, Stressful Airports, Travel, Travel Delays, Travel Stress, Living News

If you're one of the 4.54 million people planning to board a plane during the Thanksgiving holiday, rest well knowing that--in terms of flight delays-...

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Airlines Questioning O'Hare Expansion

Chicago Tribune | Jon Hilkevitch and Julie Johnsson | Posted 12.21.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Delta Airlines O'Hare, Airlines O'hare Expansion, United Airlines O'Hare, New O'ahre Runway, American Airlines O'Hare, Airports, O'Hare, O'Hare Runway, O'Hare Expansion, Chicago News

As the first new runway in Chicago in 37 years is set to open Thursday, major airlines serving O'Hare International Airport have unanimously called f...

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Economy Hurting Regional Airports

Chicago Public Radio | Adriene Hill | Posted 12.13.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Small Airports, Regional Airports, Airports, Regional Airports Economy, Chicago Airports, Dubuque Iowa Airport, Chicago-Rockford International Airport, Economic Crisis, Chicago News

Airlines have had a tough go of it recently. Fuel prices and tepid travel demand have forced them to cut flights and capacity. That means trouble for ...

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You Have the Right to Airport Harassment

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Illegal Search and Seizure, Airports, Airport Security, Aclu, Muslim, Constitution, Civil Rights, Tsa, Nyclu, Politics News

If TSA made the theft of a passnger's property an official policy, it would be considered illegal. However, it appears that many TSA employees are making this an unofficial perk of their job.

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Chicago Could Need New Airport: FAA Chief

AP | Posted 10.19.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Airports, Chicago Airport Capacity, Airports, O'Hare, Robert Sturgell, O'Hare Expansion Project, Midway, NextGen, Chicago News

A new Chicago airport or a vast expansion of one of the city's existing airports will be necessary to keep pace with booming demand for air travel in ...

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