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Ivan Glickman

Work/Life: Say It Ain't So, Shoeless Joe

"Shoeless" Joe Jackson got that nickname for taking off his shoes once in the second game of a doubleheader in 1908.One hundred and one years later, TSA is still making Shoeless Joes of us all with the apparently immutable requirement ...READ»

Ivan Glickman

Work/Life: What Are Your Chances of Getting Bumped From Your Next Flight?

Bumping is the nemesis of the business traveler. Leisure travelers often have a certain amount of latitude as to when they need to arrive at a destination. Not so with the road warrior, who is a clockwork captive. While it is highly ...READ»

Ivan Glickman

Work/Life: What Are the Chances for a Passenger Bill of Rights?

When the founding fathers endowed us with certain inalienable rights I would have hoped they had the foresight to assume these truths would have been self-evident even when sitting on an airplane.Unfortunately, it seems like the ...READ»

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Work/Life: The Bus Also Rises

Anne Marie Chaker of The Wall Street Journal wrote an excellent review recently of the new bus services that have come onto the scene to cater to business travelers. Her story includes a charming video of her trip to Baltimore on ...READ»

Ivan Glickman

Work/Life: Is the Cutback on Business Travel Cutting Into Business?

 Business travel is the oil that lubricates the wheels of business. I've always felt that companies that cut back on travel for business are cutting back on their business's prospects. Now several surveys say that while ...READ»

Ivan Glickman

Work/Life: Take My Breathe Away

I'm sure it comes as no news that spending time in a sealed, pressurized aluminum tube at high altitude is probably not the most healthful thing you can do to your body. For that reason, one would think that fliers might have ...READ»

Ivan Glickman

Work/Life: Let's Make Fixing the Air Traffic Control System a Priority

It gets pretty cloudy in Juneau, Alaska. Constant overcast, plus the fact that the airport there is surrounded by mountains, has caused many flight delays and cancellations. Fifteen years ago Alaska Airlines (AA) came up with a ...READ»

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Work/Life: Carriers Need Wings. And Credibility, Too.

Enough is enough. On July 17, I blogged about Ryanair's announcement that it was mulling the idea of requiring passengers to pay to for potty privileges. Ryanair has now topped itself. It now is floating the trial balloon ...READ»

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Work/Life: Back Up There

Okay, I have a confession. For the past several months I have been a "virtual" road warrior. Like many of you I, too, have been affected by corporate travel restrictions. As a result, today I crossed the jetway threshold for the first ...READ»

Ivan Glickman

Work/Life: All A-Twitter About Airborne Pay Potties

Most travel experts think Ryanair's announcement that it is considering charging for bathroom access on the plane was purely a PR ploy. But I think it was more in the nature of a trial balloon. Yes, Ryanair is justly regarded ...READ»

Ivan Glickman

Work/Life: Carriers Continue to Cut Capacity

With no sign of a recovery in airline travel, and with aviation gas costs ramping up, the major carriers are continuing to cut capacity, led by Delta Air Lines and American Airlines. What this indicates is that we are not out of ...READ»

Ivan Glickman

Work/Life: Just Plane Kids

Before you criticize someone you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes. Yes, it's an old joke but I'm reminded of it when I fly with kids - whether the kids ...READ»

Ivan Glickman

Work/Life: Whole-Body Scanners Aren't a Peep Show

Whole-body scanners will replace metal detectors, in a little-noticed policy shift at the TSA (Transportation Security Administration). This means that instead of walking through the familiar security portals that stand next to the ...READ»

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Work/Life: "Secure Flight" Takes to the Air in August

Travelers will see an added layer of security when the TSA finishes implementing "Secure Flight" officially on August 15, 2009. Travelers will also see an added security hurdle because Secure Flight requires that all ...READ»

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Work/Life: If You're a Hotel, the "AIG Effect" Is Real

Reflecting concern at the thought of a road warrior indulging in luxury, corporate travel departments have cancelled an estimated $1 billion worth of industry conferences in the first two months of 2009. Called the "AIG ...READ»

Ivan Glickman

Work/Life: Fleets Are Shrinking As Planes Are Mothballed

The downturn in air traffic is leading to a major makeover in air carriers' fleets. Flight capacity demand among cargo and passenger carriers has deteriorated faster than expected, according to the IATA (International Air Transport ...READ»

Ivan Glickman

Work/Life: Business Travel and Social Media

Do you really want people to know when you're not home? Or where you are going to be? You need to consider that if you are using online tools which circulate that level of detail to a social network. I'm sure a lot of ...READ»

Ivan Glickman

Work/Life: NextGen Would Boost the Economy

With all the talk about using taxpayer funds to stimulate economic growth, you'd have to think that someone in Washington would have remembered how important air travel is to a healthy economy. Right now corporate America is ...READ»

Ivan Glickman

Work/Life: Swing of the Pendulum

January was just about the worst month for hotel occupancy ever. Business travelers find themselves in the uncommon situation of holding a strong hand. With occupancy levels as low as they are, road warriors are learning all over ...READ»

Ivan Glickman

Work/Life: No More Downtime

The actual in-flight experience has had little to recommend to it since it stopped being a luxury characterized by attentive service and turned into a bus in the sky. Yes, that was sometime in the last century. Frankly, even ...READ»

Ivan Glickman

Work/Life: As If Your Life Depended On It

How frequently do you think about what you put on the line every time you travel? Probably not often, because doing anything as remarkable as zipping 30,000 feet into the stratosphere inside a metal tube with wings over and over ...READ»

Ivan Glickman

Work/Life: It's All About ROT (Return on Travel)

Room sharing on the road? Employees bunking together on business trips is just one of the more controversial notions being embraced by companies to cut travel costs. Companies are focusing on the cost of business travel ...READ»

Ivan Glickman

Work/Life: Do I Get a Refund If They Lose My Bags?

If airlines have now moved to a pay-for-what-you-use business model, do I get a refund if I pay but don't get the services promised? How about lost luggage? My ticket entitles me and my luggage to get to my destination together, that ...READ»

Ivan Glickman

Work/Life: Will Minimum Stays Stay?

Once upon a time the airlines had this rule called the Saturday night stay, and business travelers hated it because it was aimed at them. Earlier this year, when high fuel prices pressured the airlines to find new ways to raise ...READ»

Ivan Glickman

Work/Life: Fuel Saving Imperiling Safety?

You may have read that Air Canada's regional airline Jazz has removed life vests from all of its aircraft to save weight and thus get better fuel mileage.  I've read that the reason Jazz can do this is that Canadian regulations ...READ»

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