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Travel Budgeting: How to Budget for Your Trip

Traveling doesn’t have to be expensive, stressful, or unpredictable. With the right planning, you can enjoy your dream destination while staying comfortably within your budget. In this comprehensive guide, you’ll learn how to create a smart travel budget, estimate your costs correctly, save money, and make the most of deals on flights, hotels, car rentals, and last-minute flight bookings.Whether you're planning an international adventure or a weekend getaway, mastering travel budgeting allows…

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Getting the best possible airfare deals from the USA with Google Flights

If you’ve ever gone down the rabbit hole of searching for flights, you know how overwhelming it can get. Prices jump around, deals disappear, and it’s easy to spend hours refreshing tabs. That’s where Google Flights comes in—it’s one of the most powerful (and free) tools for finding cheap airfares. Here are a few strategies travelers swear by: read post

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Flying smarter: 10 money-saving tips for budget travelers

Airfares in 2024 have been a something of a mixed bag - generally down to/from/within Europe and the United States, but pricier when it comes to Africa and parts of Asia, as well as the Middle East and South America. Regardless, to make the most of your travel budget and leave you more for enjoying destinations once you get there, here are a handful of proven strategies read post

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Avgeek alert: the various stages of flight

You get on the plane and, while you listen to music, read a book or rest, there are messages that are heard through the loudspeaker. Often these messages have to do with each phase of the flight of the plane that takes you from your holiday or work destination to home (or vice versa). Today we are going to learn about each of these phases a little more in depth and also about which professionals contribute to each one.Read post

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Charlie Leocha October 30, 2010 at 5:18pm

I haven't used it yet, but TSA has an app that according to them tells you wait times at airports. http://apps.usa.gov/tsa-app/
Northeast News October 30, 2010 at 4:56pm

My niece is flying from JFK to the UK on Monday. Does anyone have any idea how backed up the security gate will be?
Ed Wetschler October 24, 2010 at 6:55pm

A story with a happy ending -- really. I posted a rave of the movie Cairo Time, which stars two humans and the city of Cairo, on another Tripatini group. A Tripatini member then said that she'd paid to see the movie on a Delta flight to Las Vegas, but the movie went on the fritz, so she never got to see the movie and she was out the money she'd spent to see it. Here's the happy postscript: "Hi Ed... I got an email from Delta. They're emailing me a $12 refund check and have credited my account with 3500 miles for the inconvenience."
Sam Scribe October 23, 2010 at 8:06pm

Biofuels: Are you sure this is a great idea? Boeing moved its head office from Seattle to Chicago four or five years ago, but here on the West Coast we're still peppered with news about Big Bo. This morning Boeing is applauding a government initiative on biofuels, saying they're all for it. But should we be all for it?
Ed Wetschler October 22, 2010 at 10:32pm

I just found out about this deal of up to 50% off from Air Berlin: "For three days only, starting October 25 at 6pm (EST) and ending October 28 at 6pm (EST) airberlin is offering up to 50% off its already low fares from Florida to Europe. In addition, passengers can take advantage of additional discounts on airberlin’s extensive European network. Destinations include London, Helsinki, Palma de Mallorca from its Dusseldorf hub and via airberlin’s hub in Berlin passengers can easily connect to Frankfurt/Main, Moscow, Oslo, Stockholm and Gothenberg."
Ed Wetschler October 22, 2010 at 8:38pm

Sam, I'll confess to feeling less warm & fuzzy about Slater than I did at the time. On another subject, says here that Air France will resume flights to Phnom Penh for the first time since c.1970.
Sam Scribe October 19, 2010 at 7:36pm

I saw this, too. Everyone, including me, lionized Slater for his mad-as-hell-and-I'm-not-going-to-take-it-anymore attitude at the time, but I've since reconsidered my reaction. How do other people feel about him now?
David Paul Appell October 19, 2010 at 7:15pm

AP news item that caught my eye this morning:

JetBlue Attendant Pleads Guilty, Gets No Jail Time

"The former flight attendant whose meltdown landed him in court in New York City has pleaded guilty to attempted criminal mischief and will undergo counseling.

Steven Slater appeared in court Tuesday. He will undergo at least a year of counseling and substance-abuse treatment.

He will get no jail time and a year of probation if he completes the program to the judge's satisfaction. If he does not, he will get one to three years in jail."

Substance abuse, eh?
Tripatini October 16, 2010 at 4:49pm

New on the Tripatini blog, one member looks at U.S. DOT and government action on airline's "hidden fees" and unbundling. Click here to read.
David Lawrence October 15, 2010 at 3:29pm

Report on the radio says the new Boeing 787 is greener and is supposed to make flying more comfortable. But I see a big problem. It has a lot more room for baggage, uses less fuel, has larger windows, better air pressure, cleaner air, better lights, and other stuff. But none of these things are what's most important to me to be comfortible. Know what it is? And what about you?