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5 WAYS TO MAXIMIZE YOUR FLY TIME

Whether you’re a seasoned road warrior or an occasional business traveler, you know the nagging...

FLYING NEXT TO FIDO: HOW BUSINESS TRAVELERS COPE

Business travelers are experienced frequent flyers and can typically handle any travel curveball...

The REAL ID Act and What It Means For You

As business travelers, we know you travel a lot. And if you travel a lot, you’ve definitely seen...

How Business Travelers Can Handle The Busiest Travel Seasons

Let’s face it — business trips don’t always align with slow travel seasons. While every business...

15-Inch MacBook Pro Laptop Ban: What You Need to Know Before You Fly

When traveling for business, chances are you have a laptop or tablet in tow. For business travelers...

Traveling During Hurricane Season? Here’s What You Need to Know

The 2019 hurricane season is in full swing. Storms are already wreaking havoc with Hurricane Dorian...

How to Maximize Productivity During Summer Business Travel

Ahh, summertime. It really can be a double-edged sword. For business travelers used to living in...

Balancing Business Travel and Family During Summer

When summertime hits, balancing business travel and family can become a bit more complicated. After...

Understanding Travel Documents: What are eTAs, Who Needs Them, and for Which Countries?

In November of 2016, Canada began enforcing a new program that has caught many travelers off guard,...

How Airport Lounges Profoundly Impact Productivity

If you’ve ever sat by the gate awaiting your flight, wishing your portable charger hadn’t run out...

Rental Car Insurance: To Buy or Not to Buy? What You Need to Know

It is nearly impossible these days to purchase anything without some form of extended warranty or...

The Business Travel Glass Ceiling: How Female Travelers Are Impacting Air, Hotel and Car Companies

Of the 488 million business trips taken yearly, women business travelers comprise 46% of them. How...

The “Smart” Luggage Ban: How to Plan For It

Smart luggage is officially dumb. At this writing, in a rare act of solidarity, all of the major...

The Business Traveler’s New Year’s Resolutions: 2018 Edition

In 2018, our wish for you is that your business travel life becomes less frenetic and more kinetic....

Vegan Business Travelers: Your Guide to Eating In Flight

If there was ever a good time to be vegan, it’s now. Food options–even in New Orleans over...

Dealing with Serious Hurricane Situations While Running a Nationwide Sales Business

Guest post by our own Dewey Warner – Director, Business Development

In early September, a mere...

The 5 Haunted Hotel Destinations You’ll Want to Seek Out This Halloween

Although most of us would shudder at the thought of encountering a real, live ghostly apparition,...

The AmTrav 2017 List: Top 15 Business Travel Apps

The clever apps your fellow road warriors are chatting up make business travel easier than ever...

Travel Anxiety in the Age of Global Terrorism

The news out of Manchester and London over the last few weeks has refocused the media spotlight on...

Biometrics – The New Frontier in Airline Security

What do JetBlue, Delta, and Air France’s KLM have in common? Besides the obvious, these are all...

United Takes a New Approach to Lure Travelers Back to the “Friendly Skies”

United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz emerged from the rubble that resulted from an intense social media...

Making the Most of Your Downtime: What’s a Business Traveler To Do?

So, you’re going on a business trip. You know as well as we do that business travel absolutely does...