Monthly Archives for August 2014.
How do you prove you are who you say you are, say, when you want to book a room on Airbnb? Among the ways Airbnb is trying to solve this problem is by saying, essentially, ‘if you participate in a bunch of social media channels and they all look legit, you probably are who you say you are’.
Why can an airline be only a legacy carrier or a low-cost carrier? Can there be no middle ground in this conflict?
Frontier Airlines recently announced it was getting rid of its current EarlyReturns elite levels and replacing them with one elite level with very limited benefits. They didn’t say it quite like that. But they didn’t gloss it up too much either.
Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok has reserved an entire floor of one of its parking garages for women who travel alone or who are traveling with a child under 12. This begs the question, how many women and children are being attacked in the airport’s parking lot that a need was felt to reserve a separate section for this?
Are you able to discern a real badge from a fake badge? Now, let’s say you are in the security line at the airport and someone dressed in what appears to be a TSA uniform pulls you aside and says you have been randomly selected for enhanced screening. Do you know how to identify a real TSA agent?
The three most popular posts/thread on ThreadTripping last week, as well as a list of all of the travelers and travel communities that were featured over the course of the week.
In the early 1900’s, Ivan Pavlov found that dogs could be conditioned to salivate on demand. And now, over 100 years later, airline and hotel program marketing executives continue to test Pavlov’s theories, and have proven that otherwise rational human beings can be made to feel deep pangs of dread when hearing or reading ostensibly positive words and phrases.
Planning a trip with the possibility of a long layover between connections. Give the airline a call – they might just set you up with a free hotel room.
The use of the word “decision” in the title is actually a bit mis-leading. You see, scoopie – the soon-to-be-husband – doesn’t have a travel decision to make at all. What he has is a life lesson that needs to be learned.
If I had to guess, I would guess that most travelers have booked a trip to a location specifically to attend an event of some sort. Whether that be a convention in Las Vegas, an award ceremony in New York City, a music festival in Austin, or what have you. What I would have never guessed is that some people won’t travel to a place where there is no event of some sort going on.
