February 9, 2012

Travel Tip: Hold Your Mail

mail boxes in snow

This is one of the travel tips that’s worth repeating with some regularity.  Especially, perhaps, during the holiday season when so many people are traveling away from home.  And there are folks among us, more unscrupulous than most of us, who are watching closely to see just which ones of us are away and leaving [...]

20 Tips for a Safe Hotel Stay

hotel key

With so many heightened travel alerts in effect, it seems like a good time to review some basic personal security precautions.  It’s very easy to think that once you’re at your hotel that you’re safe.  And you generally are.  However, it’s still wise to take precautions at your hotel — being proactive decreases the likelihood [...]

Inflight Safety Demonstration

I’m hearing that people are paying a little more attention to inflight safety demonstrations these days.  Maybe it was watching the water ditching of US Air Flight Flight 1540.  Maybe it was listening to how and why all the passengers survived.  Maybe it’s a little bit of fear. Regardless, it is a good thing to [...]

Carrying Less Fuel: Efficient or Dangerously Compromising?

Take a look at this breaking news, and tell me who you believe.   Are the pilots concerned with safety or do they have a hidden agenda?  Are they making a mountain out of a molehill? Is the company going too far in cutting costs?  Are they making efficiency cuts that impact passenger safety? Are [...]