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This LaGuardia Airport Restroom Cleaner’s Pride In His Work Is Everything

Apr 13 2023

Restrooms are often the most important place in an airport for passengers. They’re the first place many people visit when they’re departing on a trip, and even more often the last place they stop before departing the airport when they land. But they’re often run down and dirty. Nowhere has that been more the case than airports managed by the Port Authority of New York New Jersey. Yet LaGuardia has had a massive facelift.

And in a real turnaround, prior to the pandemic a restroom in New York LaGuardia’s terminal B was called the best public restroom in America. Now that Delta’s terminal C is open, it has the advantage of being both a little bit newer – and of employing this man who takes pride in his work keeping it clean and sharing his confidence in cleanliness with passengers.

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The Secret Story How Washington National Airport Got Ronald Reagan’s Name

Apr 09 2023

I lived in the Washington, D.C. area for 18 years and it remains my most frequent travel destination for work. And one of the most unintentionally controversial things that I write – triggering many readers – is referring to my preferred airport as “National” rather than “Reagan National.” It’s an interesting story how the airport’s name was changed.

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Airline Forgets To Send Arriving Passengers To Customs, Now They Have To Return To JFK Airport

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Apr 06 2023

A passenger off of a transatlantic flight to New York has shared what happened when they were accidentally directed straight out of JFK airport – instead of being directed to immigration.

They were sent a note by the airline that they had to return to New York JFK airport the next day and given a specific time to do so in order to present themselves to the U.S. government.

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20 Years Ago The Chicago Political Machine Broke Federal Law And Shut Down An Airport

Mar 31 2023

In the early morning of March 31, 2003, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley ordered city bulldozers to gouge the surface of the single runway at Meigs Field airport adjacent to downtown Chicago with large X’s in the surface. He had announced his intention to close the airport 9 years earlier and finally decided to just destroy it, since he couldn’t close it.

The next day he announced that he was just trying to create a smooth process, and save the city money. There was no longer a reason to spend money litigating the issue in court, since there was no more airport to save.

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ANALogic Machines Slow Down Airport Security, Have Worst Name Ever

Mar 28 2023

The hope is that by using these machines to allow passengers to leave liquids and electronics in their carry on bags the time per passenger in the regular (non-PreCheck) line will be reduced. Clearly somebody had to make a ton of money restoring our rights to where they were pre-August 2006, but did it really have to be Analogic considering the invasive nature of the TSA to begin with?

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“You Have My Shirt On!” Man Confronts Luggage Thief In Atlanta Airport

Mar 28 2023

Jameel Reid flew from Los Angeles to Atlanta and waited for his luggage at baggage claim. Atlanta residents aren’t used to waiting half an hour for bags – Delta offers a 20 minute guarantee – so after 30 minutes he pulled out this phone and tracked the location of the missing bag which he’d left an Apple Airtag in. The bag was already outside the airport.

Two days later he saw his bag’s airtag location returned to the airport, so he went back himself and contacted airport police.

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