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Air Travel Etiquette: Do You Have to Switch Seats if Someone Asks?
A travel etiquette question for you. You did the research, you did all sorts of pre-flight work to get your ideal seat. You checked-in and boarded properly. Your carry-on is safely stowed and you’re buckled in, ready for take-off. Suddenly, there’s a tap on your...
TSA Scanning Tech Will Let You Keep Your Laptop in Your Bag
A recent article from Entrepreneur magazine offers encouraging news for laptop carriers. What is currently considered a time consuming, annoying task — removing your laptop from your carry-on luggage during TSA scanning security checks — may be a thing of the past....
How to Get the Best Airplane Seat
Everyone wants the best airplane seat possible, whether it's the exit row, the window seat in the bulkhead row, or any aisle seat in Economy Plus. But there are only a limited number of those kinds of seats, and you have to be pretty on the ball to get them. The...
Business Travel
Five Myths about Private Jets
If money were no object, you'd probably travel via a private jet, right? It's a dream of many weary business travelers — no lines, nobody leaning their seat back, better choice of reading materials. While private jet travel may not be an option for many of us, a March...
Avoid Paying Unnecessary Fees When You Travel
Traveling is expensive; there's no way around it. But that doesn't mean you have to fall prey to the hidden costs and extra surprise charges. There are ways to avoid unnecessary fees that can come along while you're traveling, so here are a few ways you can avoid the...
GM and Lyft Working to Make Self-Driving Cars a Reality
The transportation you use once you arrive at your destination, whether traveling from the airport to your hotel or from the commuter train to your business meeting, can be a big part of your overall travel experience. Besides impacting your overall feeling about the...
Family Travel
Important Travel Documents For Traveling With Kids
Traveling with your children isn't like running down to the grocery store with them. Just like you need your own passport and other travel documents, you need to have certain documents with you when you travel with your kids. The Huffington Post has an extensive and...
Worth It or a Waste? The Real Deal on Five Common Travel Upgrades
A recent article on Lifehacker got us chatting about which travel upgrades seem worth it to us, and which were a waste of money. There were differing opinions on the Travelpro team about whether shelling out for extra space is worth the additional cost. Those of us...
The Case of the Disappearing Amenities
Most people take home a tiny bar of soap and some lotion when they leave a hotel. They may also have tiny bottles of shampoo and conditioner tucked away in their luggage as they glide through the lobby and out the front doors. Perhaps a shower cap to boot. Not a big...
Road Warrior
The Future of Airplane Seating? Let’s Hope So
Imagine this: you pay for economy seating on a long flight. You don’t want to sit in coach, but who does? Then, to your surprise, you get a free upgrade to first class. You don’t have to fight the other passengers for a nearby spot for your carry on. You get to spend...
Packing for 60 Days in a Rollaboard
What if we told you that you could pack for eight weeks in just one carry-on bag? Sounds crazy, right? We thought that idea was crazy too, until we saw the video below created by John Holloway, owner of a travel outfitters store and manager of PackingLight.com. In the...
Going Direct to Airline Websites May Give You the Better Deal
When you’re searching for a deal on air travel, hotels, or anything else related to an upcoming trip, how do you conduct your search? Do you have fifteen browser tabs open while you hop from site to site? Or, do you use a travel booking engine like Expedia, Hotwire,...
Travel Tips
Four Ways to Bootstrap Your Travel Budget
Video conferencing, data sharing, cloud computing, and mobile connectivity have been touted as the way to do business in the 21st century. Turns out, it's hard to beat being in the room to conduct business. Face-to-face meetings facilitate better, clearer, and faster...
Business Travelers Can Continue to Carry Laptops in their Carry-On Luggage
The United States Department of Homeland Security has ended a four month ban on laptops in carry-on luggage on U.S. bound flights from the Middle East and North Africa. The ban was originally enacted because terrorism experts were concerned that explosives could be...
TSA May Require Additional Screening for Additional Items at Airport
As if we weren’t already in the throes of the busiest season for traveling, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has announced that it might require more items to be removed from your carry-on luggage during screening. For the past 18 months, TSA has been...
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