Combining Business Travel with Leisure Travel
Have you ever been on a business trip and wished you could see more than just the inside of a plane, rental car, hotel room, conference room, etc.? Well, here is your solution, at least if your business travel takes you to the beautiful state of Utah. Did you know that Utah has 7 national [...]
United Now Offers Mobile Check-In
United has installed mobile check-in at its four hub cities – Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington Dulles – plus Las Vegas, Dallas-Fort Worth and LaGuardia Airport in New York. Thirty more locations will be offering mobile check-in by summer Denver joins 43 other U.S. airports, plus Frankfurt, Germany in offering this service. In [...]
What is your Travel GPA?
How do you stack up in the travel market place? As a company did you meet your travel goals and expectations for 2009? Did you uitilize your hotel and car rental contracts to the fullest? How do you compare to companies of similar travel spend and patterns? What about compliance? Are your travelers adhering to [...]
2010 Travel Forecast…Doom and gloom or back on the fast track!
Christopherson Andavo Business Travel is a member of the National Business Travel Association. The below article is one of the many we have received from them with regards to travel forecasts in 2010. The National Business Travel Association (NBTA) — the leading global business travel organization — has provided its members with the 2010 U.S. [...]
Do I have to sit here?
Many of us as frequent fliers and are always looking for that desirable seat, you know, the one that has the most leg room, the one that reclines and even the one that includes … you guessed it an empty seat next to it. Even though I don’t mind visiting with people I like to take the [...]
Considerations when making changes to your travel policies for 2010
4Q09 is here and budgets will soon be reviewed again for 2010. If you are like most companies, you have cut your travel budget considerably this year and intend to stay as lean and mean as possible with most forecasts indicating increased airfares of 1% to 6%; hotels decreasing more; and rental cars increasing around [...]
And the fee is?
The other day when a friend of mine was getting ready to leave on a trip and was flying on three different carriers, he asked me what the baggage fee was going to be for each airline. Now for the most part, one can remember the cost of a candy bar, a can of soda [...]
Need Miles? Here some ideas
With summer vacations fast approaching and wallets seemingly thinner than they should be, more people are turning to their frequent flyer programs to help lower the expense of their vacation. Some folks are discovering that their miles have been devalued over the last year or two and suddenly need a few more miles in order [...]
TSA Secure Flight
What the TSA is going to require starting May 1st, 2009, is as follows: 1. The name on the ticket MUST match the name on the valid government issued photo ID presented at check in and at the TSA security checkpoints. This means that if the ID reads “John Q. Smith”, then the ticket must [...]