No travel since the last episode, so I had some time to think back through my post-lockdown travel and come up with my top 10 gift ideas for your pandemic travelers. We look at the start of the year-end efforts by airlines, hotels, and credit card companies to keep their grounded travelers, unpack the work-from-hotel […]
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Podcast #169 — Pandemic Holiday Gift Guide; Year-End Status Offers
Posted by mark on November 12, 2020
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10 Best Travel Gift Ideas for These Unprecedented Times
Posted by mark on November 4, 2020
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With public health officials saying things like “it will be easily by the end of 2021 and perhaps into the next year before we start having some semblance of normality,” I figured this year’s travel gift guide would need to be a bit different. Here are my top shopping ideas for your pandemic traveler. Comfortable […]
Podcast #160 — Disappearing Seatback Screens; Shrinking Difference Between Ride-Share and Taxis
Posted by mark on February 29, 2020
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Is this the IMAX seatback screen? Trying to watch the Super Bowl while flying from Durango, CO to Chicago via Denver got me thinking about the fading away of seatback entertainment. We also talk about the continuing evolution of ride sharing. Uber and Lyft are looking more and more like the taxi companies they fought […]
Best Gift Ideas for a New Traveler
Posted by mark on December 11, 2019
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Coming into the heart of the Christmas shopping season, when people are getting desperate for gift ideas, I thought I’d offer up 10 suggestions for gifts that a new frequent traveler will actually use. While many gift lists are pushing Away luggage, Huzi infinity pillows, and Aesop travel kits (these companies must’ve splashed a lot […]
Top 10 Holiday Travel Tips
Posted by mark on December 7, 2018
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It seems that the snow and cold temperatures settled into the northern part of the Northern Hemisphere a bit earlier than last year. With the crush of Christmas/New Years travel starting in a few weeks, here are the TravelCommons’ top holiday travel tips to get you started early on your travel prep… Fly Non-Stop — It’s […]
Podcast #140 — Travel Tech Gets Physical; Pay Attention to the Safety Briefing
Posted by mark on April 30, 2018
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Broke out the mobile unit to record this episode in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta; much warmer than getting caught in a spring snow storm in Milwaukee. When much of the travel tech news is about the latest phone apps, we talk about physical travel technology that we can touch and carry. And when flying during […]
Podcast #132 — Travel Apps on My Phone
Posted by mark on August 27, 2017
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It’s a listener request podcast. A fellow Peacock, this one named Jack, asked “What travel apps do you have on your iPhone?” Paging back through the TravelCommons archives, I’ve covered different categories of travel apps, — in the most recent iteration of my Top 10 Travel Tips I recommended some flight tracking apps and way […]