Archive for the ‘Travel Files.’ Category
2009 Best Travel Awards
The 2009 Conde Nast Treveler Readers’ Choice Awards have been unveiled, and many of the results are not surprising. The winners are comprised largely of winners from past years. Highlights from this year’s list are below. Best US City San Francisco, CA Best US Hotel 21C Museum Hotel, Louisville Best Car Rental Company Hertz Best [...]
Best Rolling Luggage: Eagle Creek Tarmac 22
The Eagle Creek Tarmac line of luggage has received rave reviews from travel writers everywhere, but the stand-out piece in the set is the 22 inch roller. Many outlets have named the Eagle Creek Tarmac 22 as the Best Rolling Luggage on the market. The Eagle Creek Tarmac 22 or any other luggage, check out [...]
Travel Insurance and Swine Flu
Many people have never heard of travel insurance, but with the increasing concern over swine flu, or H1N1, you may want to consider it. A typical travel insurance policy costs between 4% and 8% of the vacation’s total cost and cover trip cancellation or interruption refunds, as well as medical treatment. The typical policy does [...]
How to Prepare Your iPhone for International Travel
Everyone knows that if you take your cellular phone out of the country you are setting yourself up for a gargantuan phone bill the following month. Bills can easily climb to hundreds of even thousands of dollars if you are not careful, and that is just on a normal phone that only makes calls. The [...]
Airlines Making A ‘Killing’ Off Of Fees
Even though the number of people flying is down, the revenue of U.S. airlines is going up. During the first six months of 2009, the U.S. airlines have collected $3.8 billion (with a ‘B’) for fees and surcharges such as, pet carrying fees, cancellation fees, baggage check fees, etc. Checked baggage fees are doing especially [...]
Airlines Add Holiday Surcharge
If you are looking to travel on some of the busiest travel days of the season, be prepared for another surcharge on your ticket. United Airlines and Americans Airlines each added a $10 surcharge on most of their tickets for the following busy travel days: November 29th (Sunday after Thanksgiving), January 2nd, and January 3rd. [...]
In-Flight Internet Access is Quickly Expanding
For busy business travelers, time spent in the air can be a waste. Stuck 30,000 feet above ground in a communication blackout is not ideal considering the old adage “time is money”. That may be changing soon however, since most airlines in the continental United States are testing and rolling out in-flight internet access. Many [...]
What Happens to Confiscated Items at Airports?
When you are going through the security checkpoint at the airport and they take your favorite pocket knife and your excess shampoo and toothpaste, do you know where your items are going? Well, it depends on the item. As for your shampoo and toothpaste (in quantities greater than 3 ounces), they are immediately disposed of. [...]
Passenger Bill of Rights to Limit Time on Tarmac
New legislation being debated in the US Senate seeks to limit the amount of time that passengers are forced to wait in cramped planes on a tramac waiting to take off. The bill is being referred to as a “passenger’s bill of rights,” and one provision in the bill would allow passengers to have the [...]
Unruly Passengers Face Harsher Punishment
Next time you fly, you can feel safer knowing that the punishment for unruly passengers is becoming more and more severe. The FAA reports an average of 80 unruly passenger aircraft incidents annually, with a total of over 900 over the past five years. These number don’t even reflect the all of the incidents, only [...]
