Saying goodbye (for now) to the summer interns

September is here again, and another group of summer interns at San Diego International Airport has come and gone. In early August the interns had lunch with Airport Authority President and CEO Thella F. Bowens, who shared career advice and professional insights.
Back row, from left:

Austin (Training & Organization Development – Brigham Young University)
Nathan (Aviation Security [...]

All about air cargo

Have you ever sent an overnight delivery of See’s Candy to your mother in Tampa? (Just FYI—my favorites are nuts and chews). How do you think it gets there? If you shipped via FedEx, it likely went through Memphis during the middle of the night. At the FedEx World Hub in Memphis, packages from all [...]

Laverne & Shirley at Lindbergh Field

Laverne & Shirley — those happy-go-lucky ladies from Milwaukee, Wisconsin who entertained generations of Americans on TV in the 1970s and 1980s — were recently spotted at San Diego International Airport! Well, sort of.  The video above is a madcap spoof of the opening sequence of the original Laverne [...]

Dancers have baggage, too

And I thought that I have baggage!  Boy, was I mistaken … I just had the pleasure of watching the San Diego Dance Theater’s performance of Rolling Luggage in Terminal 2 West here at the airport.  The dance piece starred eight “passengers” with luggage.  It was improvisational, and they interacted with our real passengers, concessionaires [...]

Sweet dreams

Tick tock … tick tock … tick tock. How often do you lay awake in the middle of the night? Counting sheep? Counting airplanes (what?!)?
Well at least one person working at San Diego International Airport has visions of 737’s at night: Garret in the airport’s Airport Noise Mitigation Department:

RYAN:  What time of the [...]