Tag: Southwest Airlines
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Podcast #165 — First Post Lockdown Flight; When Do We Travel For Business Again?
The hop taste isn’t coming through My first post-lockdown flight was a 90-minute Southwest non-stop from Chicago to Nashville. It wasn’t bad, but not as casually easy as my last pre-coronavirus flight in February. We talk about that experience as well as Hertz’s new cleaning program, my latest pair of Bose noise-cancelling headphones, and then Continue Reading →
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Podcast #158 — Travel Potpourri for $400, Alex
Good End to 2019 Skipping the Chicago winter with trips to Phoenix and Sedona, Arizona, and a Christmas morning flight to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Talk about those trips, my good and bad Hertz experiences, and then gather up odds-‘n’-ends from my travel notebooks to see off 2019 in this New Year’s Eve episode. All Continue Reading →
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Podcast #156 — Airport Satisfaction; eScooters; Smaller Luggage
This Won’t Help Your Flier Sat Score In this episode, we talk with Michael Taylor, author of JD Power’s 2019 Airport Satisfaction Survey, about what keeps fliers happy. I also talk about what I like about eScooters, shopping for a smaller bag for upcoming flights on a Euro budget airline, and how Hertz’s contract updates Continue Reading →
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Podcast #150 — Travel Interruptus
It’s been a tough month for travel. Not quite to Book of Job-level torment, but two of this month’s three trips spiraled into head-shaking metaphysical “What the hell is going on here” questioning of my decision to get out of bed that morning. I walk through the travel gods’ fun and games, as well as Continue Reading →
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Podcast #140 — Travel Tech Gets Physical; Pay Attention to the Safety Briefing
Physical travel technology rather than latest phone app; TSA K9 screening; dingy airport terminals, flight attendants’ safety demonstrations become strident. Continue Reading →
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Podcast #138 — Travel Turning Me Hipster; Every Delay Has a Story
February is a tough time to be in the Midwest, so when my travel took me south, to New Orleans and then to Florida, there was no bitch tweeting about the TSA lines or flight delays. In this episode, I walk through how each change in airport security has pushed me to be more hipster Continue Reading →
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Podcast #123 — How to Avoid Travel Delays
It’s been a tough travel month for a large portion of the traveling public. Between Delta and Southwest system outages and two straight Thursdays of thunderstorms in the east half of the US, dealing with travel delays has been a part of this month’s travel experience. In this episode, we think about ways to avoid Continue Reading →
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Podcast #117 — Random Thoughts About Eggs, Scotland & Car Rentals
Apologies in advance because this is pretty much a stream-of-consciousness episode, with semi-strung together thoughts about eggs, car rentals, seeing the Pope, travel food, and stuff from my September trip to Scotland. I talk about how handy I found the new Revolut service for spending and sending money in Europe; recent good and bad experiences with Hertz Continue Reading →