From USA TODAY reporter Roger Yu’s Airport Check-in column: Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta, the world’s busiest airport, will seek bids from companies to run the government’s Registered Traveler program there. The program provides speedy security clearance through a separate line for prescreened…
From USA TODAY reporter Roger Yu’s Airport Check-in column: Starting Sunday, New Jersey Transit began adding more than 200 bus trips a week between Newark Penn Station and Newark Liberty International Airport. It added 26 trips per day on weekdays,…
From USA TODAY reporter Roger Yu’s Airport Check-in column: Travelers at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle International have a new diversion: free video games. Starting Wednesday, Sony will place 14 PlayStation 3 consoles at the airport’s new departure lounge, which is…
From USA TODAY reporter Roger Yu’s Airport Check-in column: Reno-Tahoe International formally unveiled its Registered Traveler lanes last week. Registered Traveler programs provide speedy security clearance through a separate line for pre-screened subscribers who pay about $100 a year. Called…
From USA TODAY reporter Roger Yu’s Airport Check-in column: Bangor International has banned volunteer greeters from passing out homemade cookies, pie and brownies to troops en route to or from the Middle East. Rebecca Hupp, airport director, says it’s a…
From USA TODAY reporter Roger Yu’s Airport Check-in column: Airport Garages, a Colorado-based company that sells high-priced indoor parking spaces at or near airports, is expanding. The company is breaking ground this month on a 325-unit parking complex near Salt…
From USA TODAY reporter Roger Yu’s Airport Check-in column: A walk-in medical clinic just opened at Hartsfield-Jackson International. Located in the pre-security area above the main terminal, the clinic, operated by Atlanta-based company AeroClinic, provides treatment for illnesses such as…
From USA TODAY reporter Roger Yu’s Airport Check-in column: Dallas/Fort Worth International will begin testing a retail concept familiar to Europeans and Asians but almost unknown in the USA: a mega vending machine with something for every kind of traveler….
From USA TODAY reporter Roger Yu’s Airport Check-in column: Broward County commissioners in South Florida voted last week to lengthen a runway on the south side of fast-growing Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International, a proposal debated since the 1980s. The airport has…
From USA TODAY’s Airport Check-in column: Later this year, travelers at San Francisco International will be able take naps more comfortably — for a fee. Airport officials have approved a new retailer that plans to sell time slots in its…