Airline Travel Basics #1 - Part 1

Submitted by mauzenne on Fri, 07/31/2009 - 04:28.
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This cast makes some basic recommendations regarding airline travel for professionals.

Everyone talks all the time about the atomization of the workplace. Commuting is going away, thanks to telecommuting. Teams are virtual. Modern virtualization software and webcams and TelePresence and conference calls and a focus on the individual employee…all of this means that work is going to be much easier for everyone.

But what nobody says is that this means a good deal more AIR travel for some of us. And if we're going to be asked to get on a plane . . . and no one is going to teach us the ins and outs of air travel - then we're going to make a lot of mistakes. And depending upon the situation, air travel mistakes can affect our work performance. So that's why there's Career Tools.


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Submitted by ABQ_Andy on Wed, 08/12/2009 - 05:28.

Exactly What I Needed

My need to travel on my organization's behalf has been increasing and this was the perfect advice.  Everything I needed to know about picking a flight was summed up in the remark about flying home right next to the whining engine of an MD-80 then coming home to a frazzled spouse with a crying infant!

--Andy

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Submitted by caroayerbe on Thu, 08/27/2009 - 16:42.

About SeatGuru.com

Hey, Guys!

Tried to post this comment on the Airline Seats podcast page, but couldn't manage to do it, so here it is.

I learned about SeatGuru.com through a travel podcast and found it incredibly helpful! However, I'll be going to Paris from Houston soon, on Continental, and it turns out that the seat map that SeatGuru has is different than the one Continental has on their website.

The weird thing is I still trusted SeatGuru.com more than Continental's website!

I did change our seats because they'd given us seats next to the bathroom! And who wants those in a 10-hour flight, right?

Also, some airlines are not listed, so SeatGuru needs to update their database.

Great podcast!

Carolina.

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Submitted by vfiore on Wed, 09/23/2009 - 09:50.

questions

Hi, I really liked the casts on air travel, and hope more are coming. Sadly in Italy, where I live, there isn't much of an airline choice for domestic traffic as we are now back to an Alitalia-based, nearly monopolistic system.

My naive question: what about airlines that sell some or most of the 'best' seats or charge for securing them at reservation time ? (several carriers in Europe do so, especially low-costs, and as it happens even AA on transat flight - perhaps in some flights only, don't know) ? Should one buy or risk not finding 'good' seats at normal check-in or even on web the day before departure or so ?

Also I noticed that web check-in often gives access only to seats, say, row 10-15 and up. May be they keep them for themselves at manual check-in or because of aircraft balancing. I noticed that several times for relatively small planes like MD80 or 737.

Thanks and keep up your great work: it's useful advice and, for me, excellent english practice also ! 

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Submitted by abshandra on Tue, 12/01/2009 - 07:16.

Hey, this is what I really

Hey, this is what I really need to know. As a life coach, I always need to travel from one place to another places. To find out how to pick the right airlines is really handy for me. This podcast teaches us very detail about it. So, it's really a good advice and worth to hear. Regards, Shandra.