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More Holiday Fun from Airports & Airlines

December 9, 2021HolidaysChicago O'Hare Airport, Contest, Grand Hyatt SFO, San Francisco International Airport, Southwest Airlines, Wreathes

It is so encouraging to look airlines and airports having amusing celebrating the vacation season this year. Here is some other batch of actions and sports we noticed.

SFO Holiday Giveaway

San Francisco International Airport (SFO) and the award-winning Grand Hyatt at SFO are web hosting a excursion giveaway contest. Enter by means of December 21 for a hazard to win the Grand Prize: a night time at the inn and a cool SFO Travel Bag.

First Prize is as much as $2 hundred well worth of parking inside the airport storage + an SFO travel bag. And five additional winners will get BART tickets and swag and an SFO Bag.

🔔 #SFO Airport and the #GrandHyattAtSFO are decked out for the vacations and we're spreading the cheer with a #SFOHolidayGiveaway! 🎁 Enter to your hazard to win a one-night time live at the Grand Hyatt at SFO or different incredible prizes!
— San Francisco International Airport (SFO) ✈️😷 (@flySFO) December 7, 2021

Vote for the Best Holiday Wreath at O’Hare Airport

Concessionaires at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport have created themed wreaths for the holidays. Now the airport is inviting the general public to vote for his or her favorites in the Wreath Decorating Contest through December 25.

We just like the pretzel-embellished wreath from Auntie Anne’s and the popcorn canister encrusted wreath from Nuts on Clark. But we must admit to being keen on the shoe glad wreath with the boot-wearing elf made via the airport’s Shoe Hospital.

And Look: a Southwest Airlines-branded Zamboni

Southwest Airlines is the sponsor of the Downtown Denver Rinok, where ice-skating is complimentary via the season if you bring your very own skates. Skate leases are to be had ($nine/adults & $7/children), however in advance this week, throughout Colorado Gives Day, Southwest Airlines picked up all of the skate apartment charges and passed out vacation treats and surprises.

Our favorite part? Just the reality that there’s a Southwest Airlines-branded Zamboni!

“Witch” airports are decked out for Halloween?

October 21, 2020HolidaysChicago O'Hare Airport, Edinburg Airport, Halloween, Lincoln Airport, Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport

Halloween is coming up soon and airports are getting ready to have a good time – whether we’re within the terminals or now not.

We’ll keep including to this list, so please send us any airport Halloween decorations you see.

“Red Skeleton” returns to the Wichita Airport

Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower Airport (ICT) in Kansas can be retaining us up to date at the whereabouts of their pal, Red Skeleton, till the end of the month.

Bone-jour! Remember our pal Red Skeleton? He has risen from the useless and is excited to discover and meet new humans at ICT. Follow along to see wherein Red is each day till Halloween. 💀#RedSkeletonICT #AirportTwitter %.twitter.com/QtJ5Fnno8t
— Wichita Airport ICT (@FlyICT) October 21, 2020

Last 12 months Red truely got around. He even had TSA Precheck repute.

Hocus Pocus was a hit. Next?

In Nebraska, Lincoln Airport (LNK) has been having a lot amusing web hosting drive-in film nights – ultimate week it was ‘Hocus Pocus’ – that they’re looking for thoughts on what film to reveal next.

ET, maybe?

A few months ago we featured The Sandlot for LNK friends and family and this past week Hocus Pocus became a 2-night hit. Comment below your favorite movie for our next force in outside occasion. #FlyLNK #Community #MovieNight p.c.twitter.com/F6uX0WGmx5
— Lincoln Airport (@LNKairport) October 20, 2020

Carved Pumpkin contest at O’Hare

In Chicago, some of the concessions at O’Hare Airport (ORD) are having a pumpkin adorning contest. Check out all 28 entries and vote in your favourite before Halloween ends.

The stores of ORD have a special treat for you!

Visit https://t.co/UGAvvCPlFN to view and vote to your favorite #pumpkin🎃 adorned by way of concessions team contributors. p.c.twitter.com/cAkOqMdvzc
— O'Hare Intl. Airport (@fly2ohare) October 21, 2020

Here are some of our favorites

Halloween pressure-in movies #EdinburghDriveIn movies at Edinburgh Airport are returned for Halloween and you could win one among 20 loose tickets! Follow the hyperlink to enter our spook-tacular giveaway: https://t.co/EPTB9AxGUM. T&Cs follow.@edfilmfest @UniqueEventsLtd p.c.twitter.com/An5RnCQtBs
— Edinburgh Airport (@EDI_Airport) October 21, 2020

As in beyond years, we assume some (many?) airports will share pics in their therapy canine groups of their Halloween costumes.

We can’t wait.

Airport Restaurant Week at O’Hare & Midway Airports

February 3, 2020FoodAirport food, Airport Restaurant Week, Chicago Midway Airport, Chicago O'Hare Airport, Chicago Restaurant Week

The 17-day Chicago Restaurant Week festival is underway within the Windy City and the Chicago Department of Aviation doesn’t need air travelers to overlook out.

So, through February nine, both Chicago O’Hare International Airport (ORD) and Chicago Midway International Airport (MDW) are website hosting Airport Restaurant Week events to coincide with the food fest activities on the town.

At O’Hare, the Airport Restaurant Week offers encompass free in-save samplings, combination meal deals and menu specials which include the Cucumber Crush Cocktail being served at multiple venues.

O’Hare is likewise supplying a free tote bag deal as a part of Airport Restaurant Week.

Traveling in the course of Airport Restaurant Week? Receive a complimentary ORD mini tote bag with the purchase of an ARW Combo Meal/Deal purchase. https://t.co/xw90T2Xo6E #ARW2020 %.twitter.com/H4GnAQby2X
— O'Hare Intl. Airport (@fly2ohare) February 1, 2020

The Airport Restaurant Week offers at Midway Airport include a loose lunch tote (with buy) in addition to loose tastings and unique menu and beverage pairings.

Traveling in the course of Airport Restaurant Week? Receive a complimentary MDW mini tote bag with the acquisition of an ARW signature dish. https://t.co/QrxY3G8j7z #ARW2020 p.c.twitter.com/fRTn4S0hBK
— Midway Intl. Airport (@fly2midway) February 1, 2020

You can partake of these Airport Restaurant Week offers if you’re touring thru O’Hare or Midway Airport among now and February 9.

O’Hare Airport cook dinner-off crowns 2019 winner

March 27, 2019Food, UncategorizedAiriport cooking contest, airport eating places, Chicago O'Hare Airport, consuming in airports, HMSHost

On Tuesday morning Terminal 2 at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport started out to scent.

But in a terrific manner.

The source of the odor: aromas from the fifth annual Channel Your Inner Chef culinary competition hosted through airport restaurateur HMSHost and the Chicago Department of Aviation.

During the 30-minute in-terminal cook-off 4 finalists from across the us of a created an authentic recipe using any of the components available to them from a shared pantry found out on the start of the occasion.

At least one of the substances needed to be some thing picked that day from O’Hare’s hydroponic Urban Garden.

The contest befell in the front of an target audience of invited guests and vacationers on their way to or from their flights.

Each contestant had a cooking station to paintings at that covered a knife tied to the table, a reminder that the event was taking area on the secure side of the terminal.

I turned into inside the target market for this yr’s competition and was thrilled to look winners from beyond years (all women) paired up as mentors to this yr’s contestant cooks and on level to assist out for the duration of the first little while of the contest.

Then each finalist went to paintings on their personal, whipping up dishes that included a pasta, a unique take on shrimp and grits and a Brie Schnitzel.

A panel of nearby judges evaluated the contestants on their recipe, presentation, showmanship and, of course, the taste of their dish and topped Greeley, Colorado resident DeAndre Smith because the winner.

His triumphing dish: a pan-seared chook breast with a brown sugar glaze observed with the aid of pickled rainbow carrots with Fresno peppers, sparkling lemongrass, ginger and rice wine vinegar, along side a yam purée with cumin and almonds and flash fried kale.

“I notion about what my dish might be earlier than I got here to the competition and become just hoping the substances I needed would be here,” Smith told me, “I needed to make some changes, however it worked out.”

Smith’s prize is roundtrip airfare for two, in addition to a VIP enjoy for 2 to the James Beard Awards Gala in Chicago.

Even higher: Smith’s dish will soon be featured at the menu of an HMSHost-operated eating place at O’Hare.

Celebrate International Beer Day – on the airport

August 3, 2018Airports, Food, HolidaysBeer, Chicago O'Hare Airport, International Beer Day, Mitchell Airport, MSP airport

You don’t want a vacation to have a motive to order a lager the airport.

Heading out on a experience is generally cause sufficient.

But International Beer Day – celebrated every yr on the primary Friday in August – is underway nowadays, so this would be a brilliant day to test out the beers on tap in airport brewpubs throughout the US.

There are manner too many to list, however a few places to check out encompass Leinenkugel’s Leinie Pub at Milwaukee’s Mitchell Airport, which has self-carrier taps. Cask & Larder at Orlando International Airport, Flying Dog Tap House at Baltimore/Washington International Airport, Goose Island Bar at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, Stone Arch at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport and a number of the others I list in this column about the history of airport brewpubs I wrote some time lower back for my ‘At the Airport’ column on USA Today.

There are oodles of others – so please add your faves inside the remarks section under and I’ll start creating a list Statista" href="https://www.statista.com/chart/13741/american-cities-by-number-of-microbreweries-and-brew-pubs/"> Infographic: Where is America's Craft Beer Capital find more infographics at <a href= Statista