Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Tips on the Unfriendly Skies

The reasons I’m redlining the summer are obvious: Record flight delays and cancellations. Record amounts of lost or misplaced luggage. Passengers held hostage for hours on runways on cramped, ill-provisioned flights. Business travelers diverted to small airports in tertiary cites and then abandoned as their aircraft flies away empty. Flights across the Atlantic on planes with malfunctioning toilets that spew sewage down the aisles.

I’m no wimp. Three decades of business travel has made me tough and cynical and stoic about the road. But I’m not stupid either. I can do the math: Flying this summer simply isn’t an efficient or cost-effective use of my time or my clients’ money.


But if you must fly this summer, I suggest that you do your best to avoid these guaranteed time-wasting, angst-inducing black holes.



Click here to read the rest of Joe Brancatelli's tips on which airlines and airports to avoid this summer.

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