You know how it is. Your flight has been delayed, but you’ve finally landed at your destination and you’re anxious to get off the plane. Impatiently, you wait for the seats ahead of you to clear. Once it’s your turn, you grab your suitcase out of the overhead bin and dash for the door. But…
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Travel etiquette tip: Don’t get between a mom and her baby
Yesterday I flew to Utah, which took approximately ten hours of travel time. That’s no small amount for a domestic trip! I flew on Southwest, and overall my flights were good–in fact, on my final flight I had the exit row all to myself. That never happens! The summer travel season must be starting early. I…
Travel etiquette tip: Don’t talk on your phone in a public restroom
Happy Monday! Hope everyone had a lovely weekend. To start your week off right, let’s talk about something that we’ve all experienced….the bathroom phone conversation. Reader N writes, I have begun traveling for my job in the last month and I am horrified at the number of women that answer phone calls in the bathroom…
Travel etiquette tip: Don’t count on flight attendant to put your bag up
We’ve all seen it happen. A passenger lumbers down the aisle with enormous carry-on in tow. When they get to their seat (or where there is overhead space) they pause, grab the handle, and heave the bag to get it up into the bin. Maybe it gets part of the way in, and if they…
Top 5 Travel Etiquette Tips
One of the hardest things for me to get a grasp on when I first started traveling often was the etiquette. I promise, it’s not that I’m a rude person–there are just scenarios that new travelers aren’t even aware of, and it can take a lot of travel to finally figure it all out. So…
Travel etiquette tip: Please, please, please don’t wear fragrance on planes.
This week I flew Delta for the first time in like fifteen years. (It was weird yet fine, but that will be a post for a different day.) As I was walking down the jetbridge, wondering what the flight would be like, I heard something tinkling in front of me. It took me a moment,…
Two travel etiquette reminders
Oh boy. Yesterday was an insane travel day. Even though day trips are always long, I should have known how rough it would be when my alarm was set for 430am, but my baby woke up at 4am. “Please, Mini Warrior!” I said. “Please can I have my extra 30 minutes!” He declined. At DFW,…
Travel Etiquette Tip: Put your suitcase above your seat!
I know I have talked about this a lot (including during my pet peeves rant recently) but I’ve seen it happen so often lately that I want to give it its own post. Yes, we are all stressed about finding room for our suitcases. But by purposefully putting your bag far away from your seat,…
Travel Etiquette Tip: Don’t overshare. Please, please. Don’t overshare.
So I’m sitting in the Admiral’s Club in Tokyo, trying to figure out what to write for my blog post today. I don’t have a lot of time, so I’ve been scanning my topic ideas, while kind of listening to the conversation next to me. (Do you ever do that? Listen to the conversation of…
Travel Etiquette Tip: Getting to the middle seat
It has become clear to me that a lot of travelers are not clear on how to get to a non-aisle seat politely. I’ve covered it before, but after a recent flight I figure a rehash is in order. On this particular flight a few weeks ago I had the aisle seat, and when I…
