Logan Airport

Scotsman gets free introduction to American jurisprudence in East Boston

adamg — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:28:29 -0500

John Murray of Glasgow is scheduled for arraignment in East Boston District Court this morning on charges of "interfering with the flight crew" on a flight from Philadelphia to London overnight. The Suffolk County District Attorney's office says he refused to stop blocking the aisle on the US Airways flight and became belligerent and disruptive enough to force the flight crew to land the plane at Logan to get him off.

Innocent, etc.

Free WiFi at Logan - but only for the holidays

adamg — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:48:57 -0500

Looky here - Google is sponsoring free wireless at Logan and a bunch of other airports now through Jan. 15.

Via Steve Garfield, who has been banging the free-WiFi-at-Logan drum for longer than anybody.

A thousand bottles of mosquito spray and hand sanitizer

adamg — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:57:49 -0500

UPDATE: TSA responds.

Hokay: FORCV.com has updated its story on the Cape Verdeans blocked from taking stuff on a flight to their homeland. It wasn't Tylenol and Vitamin C that TSA blocked them from taking onboard, but "large quantities of mosquito repellent spray cans and alcohol-based hand sanitizer bottles in suitcases." And the reason TSA agents stopped people from bringing all these cans and bottles with them is because "TSA checkpoint personnel were alarmed by the large amount of those flammable products in several suitcases since they fall under the category of dangerous goods."

TSA stops Cape Verdeans from taking Tylenol, Vitamin C back to homeland for viral epidemic

adamg — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:34:12 -0500

UPDATE: FORCV.com has updated its story and so are we: It was large quantities of pressurized cans, not Tylenol.

FORCV.com, which covers the Cape Verdean community in Boston, reports TSA agents today blocked Cape Verdeans from boarding a plane to their homeland with large quantities of a variety of medical items to help victims of a dengue-fever epidemic there:

... TSA officials, unaware of the breakout of dengue Epidemic in Cape Verde this week, delayed the flight and did an extensive search of the luggage. By the end of the process, passengers were allowed to take only small amount of medical supplies. ...

Dengue, also known as breakbone fever because of the intense pain it causes, is spread by mosquitoes. On Thursday, the Cape Verdean government declared a national emergency because of the outbreak.

In addition to the painkillers and vitamins, Cape Verdeans also tried boarding a TACV flight with rubbing alcohol, mosquito repellents and hand sanitizers, FORCV.com reports.

FAA says proposed harbor towers too tall; developer says don't worry

adamg — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:07:45 -0400

The Boston Business Journal reports on a preliminary ruling by the FAA that proposed 40- and 59-story towers on what is now the aquarium parking garage are way too tall too close to Logan. Developer Don Chiofaro basically said "meh" and that the ruling just means closer scrutiny of the project.

Hey, remember when Massport said it had to build a new runway to reduce delays at Logan?

adamg — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:05:35 -0400

Would it surprise you to learn it hasn't?

Shards of glass

adamg — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:59:23 -0400

Richard Beaubien spent time this summer at the 9/11 memorial at Logan Airport (he has more photos here).

Earlier: The flag at Gate 32.

Copyright Richard Beaubien. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

Flying out of Gate 32 at Terminal B

adamg — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:27:16 -0400

Any number of times, DSG's gotten on a flight at Gate 32, but ever since 9/11, it's felt different, because that's the gate boarded by passengers of American Airlines Flight 11, flown into the World Trade Center:

... The next time you're in that end of Terminal B, walk to the right side past Starbucks. Look out the window near Gate 32. The flag's there, paying tribute to everyone who was killed on a gorgeous late summer morning. If you're like me, you might say a small prayer in memory of all who went to an airport or to work that day, and never returned home.

Logan-Kennedy International Airport?

adamg — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:23:18 -0400

State Rep. Lori Ehrlich of Marblehead is proposing adding Kennedy's name to the airport, the Globe reports, in a story that also answers the question: Just who was Logan, anyway?

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Train not going anywhere at Airport stop

adamg — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:07:19 -0400

The MBTA reports a disabled Blue Line train at Airport inbound.