Category Archives for Airports.
If you’re flying to Sydney, you get off the plane, and you see this sign you’re going to check your glasses – are you seeing correctly?
Lebanon’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation has banned passengers departing from Beirut from traveling with walkie talkies and pagers – either with them into the cabin, or in checked luggage. I fully expect calls to broaden the ban put in place by Lebanon – to electronics broadly, and even wifi, out of fear that a connected device could be ordered to detonate.
Surprising absolutely no readers of this website, the March 2025 REAL ID deadline isn’t going to happen. The first enforcement deadline, by the way, was in 2008.
Under a new proposed rule – that has not been finalized, even – full enforcement might not begin until May 2027. In the meantime, the plan is to hand a piece of paper to passengers whose IDs don’t meet the standards laid out in the 2005 Real ID Act telling them to get a new one.
Over the last year there have been numerous protests blocking access to airports including Chicago O’Hare, New York JFK, and Los Angeles. Supporters of Palestinians – and in some cases of Hamas – took over roads, making them impassible, and causing passengers to miss flights.
These blockades probably don’t gain protestors sympathy for their cause.
Twenty three years ago today I was sitting in my office in Arlington, Virginia.
The first news I heard about planes crashing into the World Trade Center came over email. It wasn’t on the newswires yet. I was on an airline industry list, and the subject line was “Terrorists are bombing us with airplanes.” I didn’t think it was real.
The airport security checkpoint is now the stage for a viral social media trend: the “airport tray aesthetic.” Passengers curate and photograph the contents of their TSA bins.
Meanwhile, all of Nav Canada facilities went electronic 15 years ago (and all control towers and TRACONs even earlier). Their solution is used in Australia, Italy, the U.K. and Dubai. We could license the Canadian solution, or other commercial ones, but instead the FAA has been working contracting for their own solution since three years before the Beastie Boys were fighting for your right to party.
Data from aviation analytics company Cirium shows the ‘most connected airports’ meaning the airports that serve the most destinations. Here are the top 10 U.S. airports, with Chicago O’Hare able to send passengers non-stop to more places than any other.
Trump campaign 737 mistakenly entered restricted airspace over the White House, banking right towards the Washington Monument after takeoff from National airport.
When two Delta Air Lines employees were tragically killed on Tuesday at an airport maintenance hangar following a tire explosion, the airport took to Twitter to express condolences using Delta’s corporate slogan “keep climbing.”
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 »
