Amtrak on a Roll… Again
As part of its COVID-19 recovery efforts, Amtrak is moving at full bore into restoring daily service for 12 long distance routes following drastic pandemic-related schedule reductions in 2020. Providing customers significantly more departures for the upcoming summer travel season, the new schedule has been updated on all Amtrak reservation systems, including Amtrak.com and the Amtrak app. Due […]
Is it Safe to Travel Yet? It’s Complicated
Is it safe to travel yet? People like Stephanie Wolkin want to know. Safe for her means she can see her 97-year-old mother in New Jersey without infecting her with the deadly COVID-19 virus. Safe means she can find a way to make her annual trip to France this year, to make up for the […]
State of Travel: Are we There Yet?
Is travel coming back? Here’s what we know: 2020 was the worst year from travel since mass leisure travel actually became a thing. Expedia reported 57 percent drops in revenue while airlines offered numbers as high as 90 percent. And those numbers, while on an upward trajectory, have a long way to go before travel […]
CES 2021: The Big Show that Was … and Wasn’t
The big talk at the 2021 Consumer Electronics Show (#CES2021) was not smartphones or the next big camera or drone – although those products and innovations were in abundant supply. No, the big talk this year was survival – getting the world immunized and healed and making sure that big tech does not become the […]
Travel Deals and Hot Destinations
Gotta get away? Here are some cool travel deals to fan the warming thoughts for some desperately needed vacations. Travel deals abound right now as winter bears its wrath. However, like the weather, they won’t last long. Hello Hawaii For those seeking travel deals in a vacation in a tropical paradise, Four Seasons Resort Lanai provides peace of […]
Travel Booking Refunds? Not So Fast
By Christopher Elliott After JetBlue canceled Deborah Luiz’s flight from St. Maarten to Boston, her credit card promised to refund her points and airfare. The points arrive but the money is delayed. How did she solve the problem? (Spoiler alert, she did not use a travel agent to book her travel plans) Q: I need […]
Club Med Marks Travel Trends for 2021
While 2020 was challenging enough for the travel industry, it also provided valuable insight into travel trends for the years ahead. That made music for Club Med, pioneer of the all-inclusive resort concept, and allowed it to formulate insights that turned into predictions for travel trends in 2021. A recent industry study reported that beginning in September 2020, for the first time during the pandemic, more Americans planned […]
Dare to Pair the Office Chair
Covid-19 last year brought the world to its knees – or more appropriately, it’s backside. The pandemic sent some 72 percent of the workforce home to pursue business on a more round-the-clock scale that many actually find more workable than the stressful central office setup of yore. In fact, a new Pew Research Center survey […]
Private Jet Travel: Is it Time to Upgrade?
2020 was a banner year for private jet travel. And given the unabating proliferation of new virus outbreaks and mutations, it is likely that 2021 will not see those statistics moving backwards. While airlines see passenger counts off by more than half, private flights are running at 90 percent of normal – or what they […]
Airlines to Passengers: Curb Your Behavior
The FAA, in the wake of recent unruly behavior on aircraft and White House-sanctioned mob violence threatening cities all around the country, is ordering airlines to enforce stricter codes of demeanor to stave further public incidents. The FAA has seen a disturbing increase in incidents where airline passengers have disrupted flights with threatening or violent […]
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