America’s air travel system is in crisis. Could it be that “the system of air travel&# is being re-engineered before our eyes and all the current problems are part of the process? How Big Is The Air Travel Network? Air travel represents billions of dollars flowing through the network. Air travel used to be a social experience. Yet air travel has become necessary evil for both leisure and business purposes. adults reported traveling by air for leisure trips.  The percentage of air travelers increases to 48 percent among U.S. MORE >>

Commercial airlines continue to astonish the traveling public with an ever-increasing array of new ways to charge extra fees.  Obviously, there must be some net average cost for a seat, per mile traveled with all services restored, so why can’t we save the drama and loss of productivity and use the average price? Seeking game designers to build the next generation of air travel. The newest scheme is to charge 5 dollars to have a customer service agent print your boarding pass.  Your schedule or theirs? What, they don’t accept their own currency…?!?! What’s the end game? MORE >>

Many things have changes over this period – I’m older, have travelled a lot more and am now more likely to stay in hotels than camp rough – but the biggest change is the way that social media is helping me do things I could never do back then. So what does this mean for the travel industry? Social media is changing the way we travel. The way we plan, the way we book, the way we act when we are travelling and the way we report on it (in real-time and after the event). Image via Wikipedia. It’s almost 15 years since I last made a similar trip. MORE >>

Why are Business Travelers not flying as much? No one wants a bad deal and that includes the business traveler. What is “value” in this equation of business travel? If that is the case then why are business travelers flying less? believe there are two reasons: •  Time: Airline Travel kills time. Point A to Point B travel in the airline experience is usually not in a straight line. This is most often the case when you are going distances of less than 500 miles, especially when the travel is between two points that are not major metropolitan areas.  MORE >>

Most of us can agree that when traveling for work or when taking a vacation, it is definitely not about the journey and all about the destination. They work with more than a thousand sites, from flights, rail, cruise, rental cars, events, restaurants, and hotels, to help make your travels a less stressful experience. They also make it extremely easy for your travel plans to be sent to your friends, family members, and co-workers, so they too know when you will be away. Simply put, it’s more like having a personal assistant with you while you travel. MORE >>