Flying from different airports around the world provides a wide range of new and innovative ideas to make traveling easier. Common sense sometimes provides simple yet substantial time savings, and rarely are these ideas implemented in the US. In Copenhagen, for example, the jetways divide for the three classes of passengers so that you enter […]
My hometown paper, well sort of, published a story today about the new airline servicing a local airforce base in Chicopee MA. The Republican of Springfield reports that on July 16, the start-up and famously cheap new airline will inaugurate service between the base and Florida, California and Ohio. “We’re really excited about this,” said […]
I’ve never thought about bike parking at the airport. But leave it to the folks in Portland to think about it and actually do something. Pretty cool! PDX Airport will be getting a new multi-use path so that walkers, bikers and others can make their way to the plane in a green way. Here is […]
You can bring passengers to a bus, but I guess you can’t make them board it. Officials in Westchester county are finding few takers for their new airport parking bus. While the 22-minute ride on a comfortable shuttle bus was pleasant and smooth, few airline passengers tried it. The AirLink bus departs hourly from the […]
Living and traveling out of the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts is a pleasure. That’s because we can usually fly from Hartford/Springfield’s Bradley International Airport. Today the Associated Press reports that this relatively small airport is making a big pitch to capture more business in the wealthy enclave of Fairfield county, Connecticut. “On July 1, Northwest […]
In Phoenix, planners are developing ideas to build a ‘people mover’ train instead of finishing a state highway expansion. The concept makes sense: eliminate the traffic that comes with pick-ups and drop-offs by moving the airport parking farther away from the terminals and providing free trains to take just the people into the terminals. One […]
Chip Ainsworth writes a sports column for the Recorder in Greenfield, MA. He still manages to avoid the high price of parking at the now-very cool Fenway Park. “Parking without paying at a Red Sox game is always an adventure. In the ’70s, my favorite spot was along a narrow dirt road wedged between several […]
In Santa Fe, NM, things are looking up as the airport there gears up to expand to accept regional jets. In the past travelers had to fly to Albuquerque and drive an hour, according to Jim Montman, the airport director there. The capital city of New Mexico is in the market for expanded commercial airline […]
