Category Archives for Airports.
An airport’s purpose is to help you get somewhere. So the best airports are the ones which do that most efficiently.
They are easy to get to, they are easy to get through, and they are easy for planes to get in and out of quickly.
When you’re at the airport you’re in a separate dimension. You aren’t in one place, you’re between places. Time zones lose meaning. So the idea that there’s a span of time where it’s acceptable to drink a beer? “It’s five o’clock somewhere” is literally true.
United’s hub at Washington Dulles has long held a precarious position. It’s been on the potential chopping block many times over the past 25 years. As a result, it’s a place that’s seen little investment – until now.
There’s a growing elite consensus that the TSA has been fixed and is no longer a problem. I think that the narrative is misleading. TSA pays screeners more, so it doesn’t have a problem hiring screeners. That’s made a difference in security lines at some airports. But that’s the only dimension along which they’ve seemed to improve. It’s also the one most visible to travelers, so they’re getting too much credit.
The Justice Department has halted the DEA’s airport searches after a report revealed over $3.2 billion in cash was seized from passengers without charges over a decade, citing abuses, improper targeting, and likely constitutional rights violations.
Ben Schlappig, ‘Lucky’ at One Mile at a Time, has gone viral in Egypt for his criticisms of the Cairo airport – and has elicited a public attacks and threats from that government’s minister in charge of the airport.
CLEAR is a paid program that’s supposed to solve this but the more successful CLEAR becomes, the less useful it is. CLEAR has long lines, too!
So here’s a little trick that can get you through security much faster at some airports, and make CLEAR useful again.
One airport vending machine offers food that’s better than first class. Eating well can be difficult during travel, especially on planes and in airports.
You don’t get much in coach. Domestic first class meals are quite bad. Every airport restaurant except Tortas Frontera is bad by design.
A crypto businessman, Antônio Vinícius Lopes Gritzbach, was assassinated mid-afternoon at São Paulo’s Guarulhos International Airport yesterday. The shooting, which injured three bystanders, occurred outside domestic Terminal 2, in an attack attributed to criminal gang First Capital Command (PCC) which controls significant drug trafficking routes and tentacles across South American and European crime networks.
Americans don’t know geography, and can’t find Oakland on a map. So Oakland airport and San Francisco airport are locked in a legal battle over whether the Oakland airport can call itself “San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport.”
Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel -- a topic he has covered since 2002.
Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »
