Tag Archives: Frequent Flyer Status

Podcast #169 — Pandemic Holiday Gift Guide; Year-End Status Offers

Posted by mark on November 12, 2020 3 comments

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 […]

Podcast #162 — Post-Corona Trip Planning; Keeping a Travel Journal

Posted by mark on April 11, 2020 1 comment

Early attempts at travel journaling Kinda tough to do a podcast that’s more about the journey than the destination if I’m not “journeying,” but I give it a go. We talk about cyberattacks on frequent flyer accounts now that we don’t have a reason to check them, planning for my first post-pandemic trips, and how […]

Podcast #137 — New Year’s Travel Status Tips; How to Shop for a Suitcase

Posted by mark on January 25, 2018 2 comments

So we’re four weeks into the new year and 30-50% of us have already ditched our New Year’s resolutions, but we still have time to get our 2018 travel status lined up. Over the holiday break, I bought a non-smart carry-on to replace my now-banned Bluesmart; I walk through my shopping criteria. All this and […]

Podcast #84 – End of Year Status Calculus; TSA Porn

Posted by mark on October 30, 2010 2 comments

Walking into the TravelCommons studios for this episode felt like walking into a confessional — “Bless me Father for I have sinned; it’s been 6 months since my last podcast…”  I talk about the new TravelCommons web site and the new Facebook fan page. I talk about some recent WiFi experiences — at 35,000 ft […]