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What I learned about Dallas Love Field Airport

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The group that produces “Love Field Stories,” the respectable podcast of Dallas Love Field Airport (DAL), turned into kind sufficient to include me as a guest for 2 upcoming episodes.

The two-parter delves into the precise records of the airport and highlights a number of the fantastic artwork that can be noticed in and across the terminal.

The episodes might be stay-streamed on Tuesday, April 12, and on May 10 at 12:30 p.m. (Central) on Love Field’s Facebook and YouTube and could include pics of among the ancient occasions and artwork we discuss.

The podcast also can be heard on Apple Podcast, Spotify, iHeartRadio, and Pandora.

To produce the podcast, DAL teamed me up with Bruce Bleakley, who's an aviation historian and co-creator of The Love Evolution: A Centennial Celebration of Love Field Airport and Its Art.

We called it a communication. But without a doubt, it’s me attending to pick the brain of the airport’s historian. I asked Bleakley approximately how, in 1958, Dallas Love Field’s new terminal constructing got here to have the first shifting walkway at any airport inside the world. And why there was an ice-skating rink in the terminal. And approximately the function that Dallas Love Filed performed on that day in 1963 when President John F. Kennedy became assassinated in Dallas and Lyndon B. Johnson changed into sworn in as president at the DAL tarmac.

In this two-component podcast, we additionally examine the memories in the back of some of the first rate artwork that passengers stroll over and walk by using at DAL.

And I get Bleakley to inform us which metropolis’s call is spelled wrong inside the airport’s first commissioned piece of artwork. A detail he didn’t even proportion in his ebook.

I wish you’ll music in!

Courtesy Frontiers of Flight Museum, Dallas

Celebrating the history of airports

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The history branch here at StuckatTheAirport.com is a massive fan of anything having to do with the history of airports.

Airport libraries? We’ve examine up that.

Moving walkways at airports? We’ve researched that too.

And we’re usually glad to research extra approximately airport history over at the AirportHistory.org web page.

The crew there recently posted their top five illustrated airport records tales from 2021, beginning with #five: a image feature celebrating Vancouver International Airport on its 90th anniversary. You can see that function right here.

#4 on their listing is a awesome tale approximately the records of Montréal–Mirabel Airport. #three is a story approximately Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in the 1960s (see that tale right here).

And #2 on their list is a roundup of the world’s 10 busiest airports at the dawn of the Jet Age in 1961. See that tale here.

And we are not surprised to look that their #1 tale for 2021 is a piece providing some great photographs celebrating the fortieth anniversary of Singapore’s Changi Airport, one among our favorites. See that tale here.

At the Airport: News from GSP, FLL & Alaska Airlines

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GSP Airport Debuts a History Museum

South Carolina’s Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport (GSP) celebrated its Dedication Day on November 4, 1962.

Fifty-9 years later, the airport unveiled its History Museum, detailing decades of serving the community.

The 350 rectangular foot History Museum is near the Escape Lounge in GSP’s Grand Hall and is on the market to departing and arriving passengers 24 hours a day.

The museum offers traffic a detailed take a look at GSP from the founders’ vision in the Forties thru the current and on to future plans. Exhibits consist of pix, videos, and first-hand money owed of the airport’s effect on the area. A special phase is dedicated to the Flatwood Peaches baseball team that performed on fields where the airport is located.

Airport Employees Share Their Art at FLL

In Florida, Broward County’s Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL) is hosting the 6th installment of its employee art work exhibition titled I Bet You Didn’t Know. This 12 months, the showcase showcases forty six artworks through 28 FLL personnel and is on view through March 17, 2022, in the walkway connecting Terminals 3 and 4.

The paintings consists of art work, drawings, collages and acrylic pours, through artists whose airport jobs encompass security personnel, supplier operators, flight attendants, and different professions.

You can see all the works in the FLL exhibition on line here.

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Alaska Airlines Now Serves Boxed Water

Next time you’re served a cup of water on Alaska Airlines, you’ll observe it being poured out of a field, no longer a plastic bottle into a paper, now not a plastic cup.

This week Alaska Airlines did a terrific issue for the environment by swapping out single-use plastic water bottles and plastic cups for Boxed Water Is Better emblem cartons and recyclable paper cups in the major cabin on all its flights.

The service made the switch within the First Class cabin a while returned, so now Alaska is laying declare to the title of the primary within the enterprise to move completely away from plastic for its water carrier.

That’s a big deal due to the fact this could remove about 32 million plastic water bottles and 22 million plastics cups per year from Alaska flights. The 1.8 million kilos of unmarried use plastics in keeping with year prevented is equivalent to 18 Boeing 737s. You can study greater about the program and the Boxed Water is Better Brand corporation inside the tale we wrote for The Points Guy.

LGB: 5 Things We Love About Long Beach Airport

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The “5 Things We Love About…” collection on StuckatTheAirport.com celebrates capabilities and services at airports across the us of a and the arena.

Today we’re landing at California’s Long Beach Airport.  Founded in 1923 it's far the oldest municipally owned airport in California.

Keep in mind that some facilities we list right here may not currently be to be had due to health issues. We are confident they’ll be returned.

five Thing We Love About Long Beach Airport

1. The out of doors atrium at LGB 

The open-air atrium at Long Beach Airport has palm trees and a drought-tolerant garden. It is a unprecedented treat to have an outside area an airport and this one even has a wine and beer bar (4th Street Vine) with a hearth pit.

2. Outdoor boarding at LGB

LGB’s boarding experience harkens lower back to the golden age of flying; the outside boarding takes advantage of the year-round Southern California sunshine.  

three. Art and History at Long Beach Airport

The LGB terminal turned into constructed in 1941 in the Streamline Moderne style, with smooth partitions, flat roofs, railings and porthole windows that make it appearance more like a deliver than an airport terminal.

The airport additionally boasts ground mosaics and wall murals designed as a part of the Works Project Administration (WPA) in the Nineteen Forties

Newer pieces consist of the sculpture under, via Aaron De La Cruz. Before being bought by LGB, the untitled work was a brief installation on the Moscone Center in San Francisco. There it become displayed vertically.

To accommodate LGB’s format and maintain sight lighting fixtures to the airfield open, the artist’s team reconfigured the piece so it would hang from the ceiling.

“The sculpture is now in the form of an arc to symbolize the motion of flights commencing and landing,” says the airport.

4. Local eating options at LGB

All the dining venues at LGB are neighborhood, that is pretty unusual for an airport.

Options consist of Long Beach Burger Bar, Polly’s Coffee, Sweet Jill’s Bakery, George’s Greek Café, Boathouse at the Bay, and the 4th Street Vine Wine & Beer Bar referred to above.

5. Shopping at LGB 

Some airports promote snow globes in the gift shops. But at Long Beach Airport travelers can pick up sand globes.

Bonus: two cool videos from Long Beach Airport

Here are two fun movies from the Long Beach Airport internet site.

This first one functions Earl S. Daugherty, who changed into a pioneer aviator, an suggest for the introduction of the Long Beach Airport, and one of the earliest aviation photographers. He changed into acknowledged locally because the “King of Aviation” and is the man or woman for whom the airfield is named for.

This video indicates the barnstorming legend flying over Long Beach inside the Nineteen Twenties.

The expertly edited movie underneath indicates a day at Long Beach squeezed into and a 1/2 mins.

Did we pass over your preferred function of Long Beach Airport? Let us regarded within the feedback phase below.

And make certain to test out the alternative airports in our “5 Things We Love About…” collection.

BWI & LAX airports mark anniversaries

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Two airports celebrate willpower anniversaries this week: Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) and Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).

70 years ago, on June 24, 1950, President Harry S. Truman officially committed Friendship International Airport, that is now called Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.

11 years later, then-Vice President Lynden B. Johnson was available on June 25, 1961 for the dedication of the Jet Age terminals at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).

A few years later, in 1964, Lucille Ball became at LAX to inaugurate the first “Astroway” – or transferring walkway – at LAX .