Holiday Travel Season: Best Booking Tips
The hectic holiday travel season is practically within spitting distance. For travelers looking to avoid the long lines and packed planes, here is one top tip: don’t travel the week before Thanksgiving. Concur, a travel and expense management firm that represents some 57 percent of the world’s business travel, analyzed historical data to find…
Traveling During the Time of Trump
U.S. travelers rarely head out to a foreign destination, legitimate visa in hand, concerned about what might happen to them at the airport when they land. But that is exactly what happened to this writer last week. I thought I was heading off to Istanbul on a long-ago scheduled press trip to meet executives at […]
Best, Worst North American Airports? The Hit List
The thought of boarding a plane sends most would-be passengers into dizzying dilemmas of anticipated discomfort as they gage personal tolerance tiers for pain and claustrophobia. Airports, however, are something else entirely. In fact U.S. airports these days are getting high marks from those who use them. Orlando, John Wayne Orange County, and Sacramento are getting […]
Fear of Flying: Dr. Oz Cures All on Recent TK Flight
Dr. Mehmet Oz made a surprise appearance aboard a Turkish Airlines flight bound for New York from Istanbul recently to tape a segment about a topic many of us know all too well: the vexing discomforts of long-haul flying. The famed cardiothoracic surgeon and Columbia University professor whose syndicated talk show, The Dr. Oz […]
Gate Getaways: Quick Trips for Airport Layovers
Enduring a long layover at an airport is never fun, but during summer the feeling of being cooped up on a beautiful day can be pure torture, especially if that day is spent at a boring U.S. airport. But there’s no reason to spend the whole day on the menace of travel. Many airports […]
Strategies for Managing the Airline Seat Wars
It is no secret that the competitive rigors of Wall Street and fierce battle for those top end bonuses are pitting tortured flyers against greedy airline companies in a conflict that seems to have no bottom in sight. Where tracking luggage, kinder/gentler reservations managers and on time performance numbers ruled policy until just a few […]
Latest Flight Ban: Toss the Tablet, Too?
The United States announced a new rule that bans bigger-than-a-smartphone electronics from the airline cabin on certain flights to the United States — including laptops, tablets and cameras. The rules apply to flights from 10 airports in Middle Eastern and North Africa. The government has attributed the new security measure to concerns about bombs. The […]
UAL: Newest Member of the Free-to-Fee Club
Take a good look at what you’re carrying next time you get on a United Airlines flight … and weep. Those freewheeling days of taking your carry-on bags aboard your flight are soon to hit a wall. United Airlines recently joined Frontier Airlines, Allegiant Air, and Spirit Airlines in their practice of charging for every […]
Terminal Insanity: Airports to Avoid this Holiday
With millions of Americans traveling over for the holidays, it is no surprise that the days leading up to and after the holidays are among the busiest of the year for airports. If you have to fly you have to fly but if you can avoid these airports during holiday travel, all the better.
Breezing Through International Airport Immigration
Been through airport immigration lately? Even if you are a US citizen you’re not immune from penetrating eyeballs, the fishing questions and the lengthy line treatment when coming into the country from abroad. It’s not supposed to be fun, but depending on the confluence of random factors, such as where you’ve been, what you […]
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