Category Archives for Europe.
Are you a well-seasoned traveler? Do you give yourself plenty of time to get to your gate after you clear security so you won’t miss your flight? If so, Brussels Airport has a message for you: we will defeat you by springing surprise passport checks on you just before you reach your gate. Also, they…
Mention Sweden to any boy that grew up in the ’80s and there’s a good chance that he’ll be thinking of the Swedish Bikini Team. Mention Sweden to any boy that grew up in the ’80s that’s now a suburban father and there’s a good chance that he’ll be thinking of IKEA. No matter what…
While it’s nice to celebrate the best airports in the world, it’s equally important to call attention to the terrible airports, too. Jalopnik, the transportation-obsessed brother of Gawker, just released their list of “Ten of the Most Garbage Airports in the World” and it’s pretty much guaranteed to remind you of the time you went…
Sweden, that magical land of conflict neutrality and bikini teams, has done it again. This time, they found out how to make charity completely awesome. Swedavia, the state-owed group that controls all of the airports in Sweden, has partnered with the Red Cross to come up with a novel way to get you to donate…
If you’ve arrived here looking for a write-up of free massages or in-lounge accountants doing your taxes for free or something, you’re about to be sorely disappointed. I was just in Madrid — oh, hey TONS OF MADRID STORIES — and found a new little friend in Iberia’s SaliDali Lounge at MAD. Judging by the…
Don’t sound so surprised, pal. Reindeer is a part of Finnish cuisine and of course there’s Finnish food at the airport — when it’s an airport in Finland. If you’re like me, though, you probably don’t know much about Finnish food. I’m a professional food writer and I couldn’t name the top dish in Finland…
One of the most successful Fly&Dine stories of all time was about a Chinese man who was able to game the system at his local airport to eat in the first class lounge for free by continually extending the outbound date on his refundable first class ticket. Well, it looks like somebody else tried to…
