Podcast: TravelCommons

Podcast #58 – Who Raves About Their Airline; Powering Up in Airports

October 24, 2007

Recorded in the Gaithersburg, MD Marriott outside Washington, DC at the end of an intense week of travel that had me flying from the East Coast to the West Coast… Listen to Episode →

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Tags: Airport power outlets, business travel, flight delays, JetBlue, JFK, Nokia, Reagan National Airport, travel, travel podcast, United Airlines, Virgin America
Podcast #57 – Making Time for Local Fare; What’s Standing in the Way of Fixing Our Airports

September 23, 2007

Recorded in the TravelCommons studio outside Chicago, I’ve been bi-coastal since the last episode, bouncing between New York and San Francisco. A side trip down to Philadelphia yields a great… Listen to Episode →

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Tags: bluetooth keyboard, business travel, FAA, FACT 2, flight delays, NIMBY, O’Hare, Philadelphia, podcast, scrapple, street food, travel, United Airlines
Podcast #56 – Lines Around the World; Shedding Some Electronic Weight

August 16, 2007

Recorded in the San Francisco Airport Marriott, a recent city-a-day business trip through Europe allowed me to do a first-hand comparison of the European air travel experience to the much… Listen to Episode →

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Tags: Apple iPhone, BlackBerry, business travel, European travel, flight delay, podcast, Schipol, ThinkPad laptop, travel, travel stories, Travel Technology
Podcast #55 – True Cost of Connecting; See More With The Family

July 10, 2007

Recorded in the Marriott Courtyard in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the current “blogstorm” about United Airlines’ poor customer service provides the data to calculate the true cost of connecting flights.… Listen to Episode →

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Tags: business travel, customer service, family travel, flight delay, Missed Connections, podcast, tap dancing, travel, travel stories, TSA, United Airlines
Podcast #54 – Traveling Injured; How Bad Is Travel Experience Really?

June 8, 2007

Recorded in the Grand Geneva Resort and Spa, the former Playboy Club, in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, I talk about the travails of “playing injured” — traveling while sick. A listener… Listen to Episode →

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Tags: business travel, customer service, food poisoning, Frontier Airlines, Northwest Airlines, podcast, travel, travel stories, Travel Technology, TSA, United Airlines
Podcast #53 – Wanting the Red Carpet; Family Travel Technology

May 10, 2007

Recorded in Marriott Courtyard in San Francisco‘s SoMa district, I confess to some base emotions — my inner child has been throwing tantrums now that American and United Airlines have… Listen to Episode →

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Tags: American Airlines, business travel, frequent flier programs, Northwest Airlines, podcast, South Africa, travel, travel stories, Travel Technology, United Airlines, Verizon
Podcast #52 – Flying Friendless Skies; Latest Speed for the Road

March 2, 2007

Recorded in the TravelCommons studios outside of Chicago, we talk through some of the problems that have made United Airlines‘ skies less friendly than their ads would like you to… Listen to Episode →

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Tags: 3G, business travel, Cheyenne Wyoming, Cingular, Hungarian language, JetBlue, podcast, Schiphol Airport, travel, travel stories, Travel Technology, United Airlines
Podcast #51 – Change Out Status; Upgrading Travel Technology

January 29, 2007

Recorded in the SFO Marriott at the start of a trans-continental travel week, we talk about the need to “re-balance” your frequent traveler elite status at the beginning of the… Listen to Episode →

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Tags: business travel, Canada, frequent flier programs, iPod, podcast, Samsung, travel, travel stories, Travel Technology, United Airlines

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