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TUL Opens Children’s Play Area
Tulsa International Airport (TUL) has partnered with the local children’s museum, Discovery Lab, on a state-of-the-art exhibit and play area within the airport terminal. The Discovery Lab play area features innovative play structures that are versions of Discovery Lab...
LAS Adds TSA Self-Screening
Las Vegas International Airport (LAS) and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) are testing a new self-screening security system that lets travelers go through the checkpoint at their own pace. Initially intended for TSA Pre-Check passengers, the new system...
Pattison Outdoor Wins YVR Contract
Pattison Outdoor, a leading out-of-home advertising company in Canada, has signed exclusive advertising partnership with Vancouver International Airport (YVR). With the addition of YVR, Pattison is the primary advertising provider to 17 Canadian airports. In the...
Paradies Lagardère Opens New BOS Restaurant
Paradies Lagardère has teamed up with chef Karen Akunowicz to bring her take on the cuisine of Modena, Italy, and the welcoming energy of her popular South Boston enoteca Fox & the Knife to Boston Logan International Airport (BOS). The airport restaurateur has...
XpresCheck Expands CDC Pathogen Screening
XWELL’s XpresCheck division has expanded its partnership with Ginkgo Bioworks to provide the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and its traveler-based Genomic Surveillance (TGS) program with onsite pathogen screening to Miami International (MIA)...
DEN Exceeds ACDBE Goals
Denver International Airport (DEN) announced that its Airport Concessions Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (ACDBE) revenue goals were exceeded for Fiscal Year 2023, as the airport’s ACDBE Rental Car achievement was 7.87 percent, or 6.17 percent above the goal, while...
PHX Opens CONRAC-based Café
Phoenix Magazine has partnered with local hospitality firm TMG Hospitality USA to open a branded café and market at the Consolidated Rental Car Center at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX). Phoenix Magazine Café & Market will serve a variety of coffee...
SYR Expanding With $20M State Investment
Construction has begun on a project designed to enhance the passenger experience at Syracuse Hancock International Airport (SYR).  The project will expand the airport’s North Concourse to provide additional seating and concession areas while also improving passenger...
TPA Names New EVP, Planning & Development
As Tampa International Airport prepares to break ground on its first new airside terminal in over 20 years, the Hillsborough County Aviation Authority has named Smitha Radhakrishnan to the position of executive vice president of planning & development and...
MSP Concourse Renovation Enters Phase 2
The largest ever interior renovation of concourses and passenger gate areas at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport’s (MSP) Terminal 1 is moving into the second phase of the construction program.  Construction crews have begun work in Concourse C as part of the...
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