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 […]
Category Archives: Travel Tech
Podcast #160 — Disappearing Seatback Screens; Shrinking Difference Between Ride-Share and Taxis
Posted by mark on February 29, 2020
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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 […]
Podcast #131 — Twitter Concierge Customer Service; London Tube Story
Posted by mark on July 30, 2017
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This past week in Atlanta Hartsfield Airport, when I traveled across four terminals to find a restaurant serving a nice selection of local Atlanta beers, I finally had to admit that I have a craft beer problem. In addition to this confession, I talk about about taking the London Underground back from the big Adele […]
[Finished] NordVPN 1-Year Subscription Giveaway
Posted by mark on February 20, 2017
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Thanks to the folks at NordVPN, we’re giving away a 1-year VPN subscription so that one lucky TravelCommons listener can work/play safer on the Internet. We’re using Rafflecopter to run the giveaway: You only have do one of the types of entry listed below, not all of them. Each entry type (follows, blog posts, etc) […]