Airports

Years ago, before smartphones, taking a picture meant having a camera and film with you. You also needed adequate lighting, or if that wasn’t available, some sort of flashbulb to …

If you’ve ever been sitting or standing near an airport gate before a flight, there’s a chance that you’ve heard a printer that’s spewing out seemingly infinite amounts of paper. …

When we think about airports, we typically figure they’re always doing SOMETHING, 24 hours per day, 7 days a week, 365 days per year. And for the most part, that’s …

For the past couple of years, Orlando International Airport (MCO) flirted with a big, familiar airport idea: build a single, consolidated rental car facility that would serve Terminals A, B, …

In just about any airport in the world, you’re going to come across it. You’re rolling your luggage across the airport floor with no issue, and suddenly, BOOM! You have …

Most airports have relatively mundane reasons for why they’re named what they are. They’re named after the city or county they’re in. They’re named after a person. And sometimes they’re …

You undoubtedly know the story about Miracle on the Hudson. On January 15, 2009, US Airways Flight 1549 made an emergency landing in the Hudson River shortly after takeoff due …

Whether you’ve been flying for 45 minutes or 4.5 hours, it invariably happens: the plane lands and at least one person claps. What’s up with that? I mean, can the …

When they’re put in charge of a few hundred passengers, flight attendants wind up getting a lot of questions. And because their “audience” is different from flight to flight, they …

Toilets (a.k.a. “lavatories,” or “lavs” for short) on planes are nothing like toilets on land. Well, except for why they’re there (cuz when you gotta go, you gotta go) and …