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 […]
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