Travel Issues

3 tips for dealing with loneliness during business travel

You’re feeling like a boss—managing meetings, customer requests, and traveling away from home. Then you get to your hotel room and realize you’re alone, without your family, friends, pets, or any of your stuff. Sometimes it’s great to have some time away! Other times the loneliness can really take a toll. Here are my top…

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Elderly lady steals…boarding pass?

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File this story under the “people at the airport are really strange” file. A friend was traveling last week on Southwest. He was standing near the boarding stanchions, checking his email on his phone and generally minding his own business. His Business Select boarding pass was in his hand, with his low boarding number visible.…

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Protecting yourself from airline shadiness

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A few weeks ago I read that the Department of Justice is subpoenaing some of the major airlines (Southwest, Delta, American, and United) for manipulating capacity which in turn keeps ticket prices high.  Now the Department of Transportation is investigating five major airlines (Southwest, Delta, American, United, & JetBlue) about the possibility that they price…

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