The service broadcast general news, weather, stock market updates, entertainment, and travel content to airports across the United States.

[4] CNN would pay local airport authorities for the exclusive rights to run its programming on monitors throughout their terminals.

[5] Its breakfast and early fringe schedule included news programming from CNN and HLN, broadcast on a 10-second delay.

[2] In 2018, Republican Iowa congressman Steve King accused CNN Airport of having a monopoly on partisan grounds, proposing an unsuccessful amendment to the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 to prohibit a single broadcaster from holding a monopoly over television programming screened at airport terminals.

[5] Most American international airports and larger train stations also have shops managed by Paradies Lagardère or other vendors which license the names of other cable networks such as CNBC and Fox News (along with CNN itself) to brand those shops, and likewise screen those channels on the televisions within their premises inexclusive of an airport's advertising and screen deals.