Tools for travelers: Inc.com’s Quick Hits blog

Inc.com has a new blog –  Quick Hits – filled with tips, discounts and freebies for business-related tools, services, and products. Looks like travel tips are on the agenda as well:  this week’s blog entries include a review of the pricey Visa Black Card (it includes concierge service) and a link to my recent MSNBC.com […]

Glimmers of hope?

Two items caught my eye today that seem like encouraging steps in the right direction. From the Airline Biz blog, – a note about Continental Airlines saying they’d make it a policy to let passengers deplane if they’d been stuck on an airplane for more than three hours. And from the Chicago Tribune: an article […]

Tips for travel tightwads: book the “flagpole” room

One summer, when my travel budget was really tight, I took my mother with me on my work-related road trips. Not because she was great company, but because with her in tow I could get a senior discount on motel rooms. As you can imagine, there were some serious downsides to that scheme, but at […]