Port of Portland Police Present Annual Awards
Port of Portland Police Present Annual Awards
4/23/2025
The Port of Portland Police Department recently held its annual awards ceremony to recognize exceptional performance and outstanding contributions to the department and community by both employees and citizens. Join us in congratulating the award recipients and celebrating their notable accomplishments.
What's New with PDX Next (Week of April 21)
What's New with PDX Next (Week of April 21)
4/21/2025
To help you plan for what’s ahead, we’re sharing weekly updates on construction impacts...plus something to smile about!
PDX People Weekly Update: April 21, 2025
PDX People Weekly Update: April 21, 2025
4/21/2025
News and resources for airport employees.
Celebrating PDX Volunteers During National Volunteer Week
Celebrating PDX Volunteers During National Volunteer Week
4/21/2025
We’re sharing our sincere appreciation for volunteer contributions to our airport and beyond.
PDX Next Takes Home Top Honor at 2024 Oregon Travel & Tourism Industry Achievement Awards
PDX Next Takes Home Top Honor at 2024 Oregon Travel & Tourism Industry Achievement Awards
4/16/2025
PDX People Spotlight: Shuttle Rides Get an Upgrade with Chris
PDX People Spotlight: Shuttle Rides Get an Upgrade with Chris
3/27/2025
Talk about a trip! Shuttle rides just got an upgrade thanks to Chris, our SP Plus shuttle driver and *official* PDX People Customer Service award winner.
Be Respectful: Get Sensory Inclusive Certified and Enter to Win $50
Be Respectful: Get Sensory Inclusive Certified and Enter to Win $50
3/24/2025
We encourage you enhance your inclusivity work – whether this is a refresher or your first time.
PDX People Spotlight: Cozette Knows 'Gouda' Customer Service
PDX People Spotlight: Cozette Knows 'Gouda' Customer Service
3/12/2025
Cozette at Tillamook PDX delivers the grate-est customer service—so much so that she won a PDX People Customer Service award!
Be Knowledgeable: Safe Practices in Bag Tunnel
Be Knowledgeable: Safe Practices in Bag Tunnel
2/27/2025
Be Knowledgeable: Lost & Found
Be Knowledgeable: Lost & Found
2/25/2025
You’re walking down Concourse B when you stumble across a pair of prescription glasses on the ground. Do you know what to do next? If you said, “Take them to Lost and Found,” you’d be right
PDX People: Stories of Extraordinary Customer Service
PDX People: Stories of Extraordinary Customer Service
2/3/2025
To recognize actions that truly stand out as extraordinary and support our PDX People core values – being friendly, knowledgeable and respectful – we host the PDX People customer service awards each quarter.
Be Knowledgeable: Concourse B Travelers
Be Knowledgeable: Concourse B Travelers
1/21/2025
We’re bringing the next 40% of PDX to life—complete with more local shops, restaurants, art, and room to relax in early 2026. But to get there, we need some construction magic to happen.
Be Knowledgeable: Concourse E Travelers
Be Knowledgeable: Concourse E Travelers
1/6/2025
We’re bringing the next 40% of PDX to life—complete with more local shops, restaurants, art, and room to relax in early 2026. But to get there, we need some construction magic to happen.
Be Knowledgeable: Blue Lightning Initiative
Be Knowledgeable: Blue Lightning Initiative
1/1/2025
PDX is partnering with the Blue Lightning Initiative (BLI) to help train PDX and Port employees to identify potential traffickers and human trafficking victims, and to report their suspicions to federal law enforcement.
PDX People: Stories of Extraordinary Customer Service
PDX People: Stories of Extraordinary Customer Service
11/4/2024
To recognize actions that truly stand out as extraordinary and support our PDX People core values – being friendly, knowledgeable and respectful – we host the PDX People customer service awards each quarter.
PDX Receives $3 Million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding
PDX Receives $3 Million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding
10/29/2024
Merkley, Wyden Announce $5.3 Million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding for PDX Projects & TriMet
Noah Juarez Honored with First Public Safety and Security Award of Excellence
Noah Juarez Honored with First Public Safety and Security Award of Excellence
10/18/2024
PDX Community Room: An Addition Just for You!
PDX Community Room: An Addition Just for You!
10/1/2024
The new PDX has a lot of great improvements for passengers...and now there's an addition that's just for you! The PDX Community Room is a break room for anyone who works at PDX.
PDX Employee Appreciation Week 2024
PDX Employee Appreciation Week 2024
9/24/2024
PDX People make extraordinary service part of their daily routine. To show our appreciation for their time and energy, we dedicate a week to celebrating and uplifting what makes PDX one of America’s Best Airports: the people! #PDXPeople
Celebrating YOU with PDX People Appreciation Week
Celebrating YOU with PDX People Appreciation Week
8/26/2024
Our annual PDX People employee appreciation celebration is Monday, Sept. 16, through Friday, Sept. 20, and – no matter where you work at the airport – there’s sure to be an event happening near you.
 Behavioral Health Unit Begins PDX Partnership
Behavioral Health Unit Begins PDX Partnership
8/12/2024
PDX People: Stories of Extraordinary Customer Service
PDX People: Stories of Extraordinary Customer Service
7/29/2024
To recognize actions that truly stand out as extraordinary and support our PDX People core values – being friendly, knowledgeable and respectful – we host the PDX People customer service awards each quarter.
PDX People Open Houses: Celebrate in the new main terminal!
PDX People Open Houses: Celebrate in the new main terminal!
6/24/2024
Come celebrate alongside your fellow PDX People who, along with thousands of locals, made PDX the local-est airport yet.
Your Help Needed: PDX Dress Rehearsals
Your Help Needed: PDX Dress Rehearsals
6/17/2024
Hey, PDX fans! Want to check out the new main terminal before it opens to the public?
How Four Northwest Tribes Helped Build the New PDX
How Four Northwest Tribes Helped Build the New PDX
6/6/2024
When PDX built the nine-acre roof for our main terminal out of local Douglas fir, we wanted every square inch to represent the people and places of the Pacific Northwest.
Be Knowledgeable: Stay Safe at Work in Hot Weater
Be Knowledgeable: Stay Safe at Work in Hot Weater
5/31/2024
PDX People: Stories of Extraordinary Customer Service
PDX People: Stories of Extraordinary Customer Service
5/6/2024
To recognize actions that truly stand out as extraordinary and support our PDX People core values – being friendly, knowledgeable and respectful – we host the PDX People customer service awards each quarter.
Celebrating PDX Volunteers During National Volunteer Week
Celebrating PDX Volunteers During National Volunteer Week
4/22/2024
We’re sharing our sincere appreciation for volunteer contributions to our airport and beyond.
5 Ways to Celebrate Earth Day 2024
5 Ways to Celebrate Earth Day 2024
4/19/2024
Meet the Mezzanine
Meet the Mezzanine
4/15/2024
Now that you've met the ticket hall, it's time to step up to greet the mezzanine.
Urban Gleaners PDX Partnership Helps Feed the Hungry
Urban Gleaners PDX Partnership Helps Feed the Hungry
4/5/2024
Not wanting to see perfectly good food go uneaten, PDX restaurants donate unsold, ready-to-eat food to folks in need, in partnership with local nonprofit Urban Gleaners.
Update on Opening the New Main Terminal: The New PDX Starts Opening in August! Here’s What to Expect.
Update on Opening the New Main Terminal: The New PDX Starts Opening in August! Here’s What to Expect.
4/4/2024
Soon you’ll be able to wander amid the trees and admire the clouds through the skylights in the Douglas fir roof. We’re adding even more local shops and restaurants to the airport and bringing back some favorite PDX features — like the iconic carpet and the passageway between all four concourses.
Register Now: PDX Bring Your Child to Work Day
Register Now: PDX Bring Your Child to Work Day
4/1/2024
We invite you and your child/children to PDX Bring Your Child to Work Day. Join us for an airfield tour filled with inspiration and excitement!
Get Sensory Inclusive Certified
Get Sensory Inclusive Certified
4/1/2024
We encourage you enhance your inclusivity work – whether this is a refresher or your first time.
Meet the Ticket Hall
Meet the Ticket Hall
3/15/2024
Meet the ticket hall and get acquainted with the new entrance to your favorite airport.
Get Ready for ORAT
Get Ready for ORAT
3/5/2024
Supported by a dedicated team of Port of Portland employees, the PDX Operation Readiness, Activation and Transition (ORAT) team is focused on the transition from PDX Next construction to new main terminal operations.
Badgeholders Keep PDX Safe & Secure
Badgeholders Keep PDX Safe & Secure
3/4/2024
What’s the key to keeping PDX safe and secure as a badgeholder? Being a secuirty HAWK!
Be Knowledgeable: Learn Airport AED Locations
Be Knowledgeable: Learn Airport AED Locations
2/19/2024
Imagine for a moment that a traveler had a medical emergency nearby. Would you know how to help? 
PDX People: Stories of Extraordinary Customer Service
PDX People: Stories of Extraordinary Customer Service
2/5/2024
To recognize actions that truly stand out as extraordinary and support our PDX People core values – being friendly, knowledgeable and respectful – we host the PDX People customer service awards each quarter.
Be Knowledgeable: Blue Lightning Initiative
Be Knowledgeable: Blue Lightning Initiative
1/8/2024
PDX is partnering with the Blue Lightning Initiative (BLI) to help train PDX and Port employees to identify potential traffickers and human trafficking victims, and to report their suspicions to federal law enforcement.
Meet PDX's Next Pop-Up: Missionary Chocolates
Meet PDX's Next Pop-Up: Missionary Chocolates
12/20/2023
Artist Whitney Lowe Finds Context in Clay at PDX
Artist Whitney Lowe Finds Context in Clay at PDX
11/21/2023
Now on view post-security within Concourse D (through September 2024) is an exquisite temporary exhibition of fourteen (14) captivating ceramics produced exclusively by Portland, Oregon-based artist Whitney Lowe.
PDX People: Stories of Extraordinary Customer Service
PDX People: Stories of Extraordinary Customer Service
10/30/2023
To recognize actions that truly stand out as extraordinary and support our PDX People core values – being friendly, knowledgeable and respectful – we host the PDX People customer service awards each quarter.
Watch: PDX Employee Appreciation Week 2023
Watch: PDX Employee Appreciation Week 2023
10/9/2023
PDX People make extraordinary service part of their daily routine. To show our appreciation for their time and energy, we dedicate a week to celebrating and uplifting what makes PDX one of America’s Best Airports: the people!
Celebrating Extraordinary PDX People
Celebrating Extraordinary PDX People
9/25/2023
PDX People make extraordinary service part of their daily routine. To show our appreciation for these efforts, we dedicate a week to celebrating and uplifting what makes PDX one of America’s Best Airports: YOU!
Celebrating YOU with PDX People Appreciation Week
Celebrating YOU with PDX People Appreciation Week
8/21/2023
Our annual PDX People employee appreciation celebration is Tuesday, Sept. 12, through Saturday, Sept. 16, and – no matter where you work at the airport – there’s sure to be an event happening near you.
PDX People: Stories of Extraordinary Customer Service
PDX People: Stories of Extraordinary Customer Service
7/31/2023
To recognize actions that truly stand out as extraordinary and support our PDX People core values – being friendly, knowledgeable and respectful – we host the PDX People customer service awards each quarter.
Port of Portland Police Present Annual Awards
Port of Portland Police Present Annual Awards
5/19/2023
The Port of Portland Police Department recently held its annual awards ceremony to recognize exceptional performance and outstanding contributions to the department and community by both employees and citizens. Join us in congratulating the award recipients and celebrating their notable accomplishments.
Food Donation Program Returns to PDX
Food Donation Program Returns to PDX
5/15/2023
If you work at an airport restaurant or shop that offers prepackaged food, you can join the effort to help feed the Portland area. 
PDX People: Stories of Extraordinary Customer Service
PDX People: Stories of Extraordinary Customer Service
5/1/2023
To recognize actions that truly stand out as extraordinary and support our PDX People core values – being friendly, knowledgeable and respectful – we host the PDX People customer service awards each quarter.
Celebrating PDX Volunteers During National Volunteer Week
Celebrating PDX Volunteers During National Volunteer Week
4/17/2023
We’re sharing our sincere appreciation for volunteer contributions to our airport and beyond.
Coming Soon: 22 New Places to Eat, Shop and Drink at PDX
Coming Soon: 22 New Places to Eat, Shop and Drink at PDX
4/12/2023
We’ve just announced the 22 new shops and restaurants opening at PDX—and every one of them is a local brand.
Get Sensory Inclusive Certified and Enter to Win $100!
Get Sensory Inclusive Certified and Enter to Win $100!
4/6/2023
We encourage you enhance your inclusivity work – whether this is a refresher or your first time.
Building Representation and Access Through Art at PDX
Building Representation and Access Through Art at PDX
4/4/2023
With its globally diverse community, from the people traveling through PDX to the people who make it run 24 hours a day, PDX is unlike most other spaces for public art.
Wood is Personal: Q&A with Karolyn and Kevin Kaster
Wood is Personal: Q&A with Karolyn and Kevin Kaster
3/30/2023
The Port of Portland partnered with Kasters Kustom Cutting to supply local, sustainably sourced Douglas fir for the new ceiling of the main terminal.
Kimberly Cantu Holds the Keys to Great Service
Kimberly Cantu Holds the Keys to Great Service
3/20/2023
PDX Receives $6 Million for Major Energy Efficiency Upgrades
PDX Receives $6 Million for Major Energy Efficiency Upgrades
2/27/2023
PDX Next in 2023: Previewing this Year at the Airport
PDX Next in 2023: Previewing this Year at the Airport
2/15/2023
With the roof in place, we have a whole new set of resolutions for 2023 in order to get the main terminal ready for the public in mid-2024.
More Lived Experiences Celebrated in Port and PDX Art Collections
More Lived Experiences Celebrated in Port and PDX Art Collections
2/14/2023
Over the past five years, the Port of Portland has taken steps to ensure that the permanent and temporary art collections at PDX and the Port’s Headquarters reflect the diversity and vibrancy of the Pacific Northwest.
PDX Gets a Taqueria: Q&A With Cha Cha Cha’s Javier Hurtado
PDX Gets a Taqueria: Q&A With Cha Cha Cha’s Javier Hurtado
2/9/2023
On January 6, Javier opened Cha Cha Cha’s newest location at PDX’s Concourse D.
PDX People: Stories of Extraordinary Customer Service
PDX People: Stories of Extraordinary Customer Service
1/30/2023
Quarterly Customer Service Award winners, January 2023
Sunflower Lanyard Program: Making the Invisible Visible
Sunflower Lanyard Program: Making the Invisible Visible
1/1/2023
Transformative Fiber Art Portraits by Jo Hamilton Wow PDX Travelers
Transformative Fiber Art Portraits by Jo Hamilton Wow PDX Travelers
12/15/2022
When Your Favorite PDX Features Are Returning
When Your Favorite PDX Features Are Returning
11/22/2022
When Your Favorite PDX Features Are Returning
New Food Trucks Spice Up the Roadway
New Food Trucks Spice Up the Roadway
11/7/2022
Celebrating Extraordinary PDX People
Celebrating Extraordinary PDX People
10/3/2022
PDX People: Four Stories of Extraordinary Customer Service
PDX People: Four Stories of Extraordinary Customer Service
8/19/2022
“Land of Ports” Historical Display Unveiled in PDX’s South Tunnel
“Land of Ports” Historical Display Unveiled in PDX’s South Tunnel
8/18/2022
Be Respectful: Sorting Out the Waste Areas
Be Respectful: Sorting Out the Waste Areas
8/8/2022
Being respectful is a PDX People core value, and that includes your actions toward travelers, other airport workers and even shared spaces
Be Knowledgeable: Safety in Employee Parking Lots
Be Knowledgeable: Safety in Employee Parking Lots
8/1/2022
Lani Hill Honored with 2022 Golden Sparky Award
Lani Hill Honored with 2022 Golden Sparky Award
7/1/2022
We’ll Keep You Posted Campaign Springs Up Around the Terminal
We’ll Keep You Posted Campaign Springs Up Around the Terminal
5/20/2022
Taqueria La Merced Brings Burritos, Tortas, Tacos and More to PDX Roadway
Taqueria La Merced Brings Burritos, Tortas, Tacos and More to PDX Roadway
5/12/2022
Mask Requirement Ends on Airport Property
Mask Requirement Ends on Airport Property
4/19/2022
PDX People: Four Stories of Extraordinary Customer Service
PDX People: Four Stories of Extraordinary Customer Service
10/27/2021
Keep PDX Safe & Secure: Badgeholders Should Be AWARE
Keep PDX Safe & Secure: Badgeholders Should Be AWARE
10/18/2021
Swag, Sweets and Smiles: Celebrating PDX People
Swag, Sweets and Smiles: Celebrating PDX People
9/24/2021
Security Badging, Port Police Move to the Rental Car Center
Security Badging, Port Police Move to the Rental Car Center
7/22/2021
Security Badging, Port Police Move to the Rental Car Center
Security Badging, Port Police Move to the Rental Car Center
7/22/2021
Calling the Comm Center? Be Ready for More Questions
Calling the Comm Center? Be Ready for More Questions
5/7/2021
We’ll Keep You Posted Campaign Springs Up Around the Terminal
We’ll Keep You Posted Campaign Springs Up Around the Terminal
4/29/2021
Stay Knowledgeable for Heart Month: Learn Airport AED Locations
Stay Knowledgeable for Heart Month: Learn Airport AED Locations
2/19/2021
Be Knowledgeable: Left Behind Items and Lost & Found
Be Knowledgeable: Left Behind Items and Lost & Found
2/3/2021
Be Knowledgeable: Left Behind Items and Lost & Found
Be Knowledgeable: Left Behind Items and Lost & Found
2/3/2021
Stay Knowledgeable for Heart Month: Learn Airport AED Locations
Stay Knowledgeable for Heart Month: Learn Airport AED Locations
1/2/2021
Stay Safe, Stay Smart: Airport Rules Get Update
Stay Safe, Stay Smart: Airport Rules Get Update
10/29/2020