We’re in the heart of the summer travel season, so Gunnar and Kyle put together a Travel Survival Guide to help grease the wheels of your next trip.
The guys dig into the best ways to avoid delays and cancellations (including sharing their own worst delays), plus tell you all the apps, tools, and knowledge you should bring with you on your trip to make it go smoothly this summer or fall. They also cover TSA’s new (and drastically improved) shoe policy … and the insane thing CLEAR wants to charge you for now. Be sure to stick around for Gunnar’s bougiest travel take.
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Show Notes
- 00:00 – Finding something out: What’s your worst flight delay?
- 04:30 – Something Hot: TSA reverses course on shoes-off policy in all security lanes
- 08:25 – Something Cold: CLEAR wants to charge you for what, now?
- 11:55 – A word from our sponsor (us, & how you can sign up for our free flight deal alerts and book roundtrip flights to Ireland under $299!)
- 13:25 – The Extra Mile: All the best travel tips and tricks to avoid delays & cancellations and be a better traveler this summer
- 17:00 – Using Google Flight Price Alerts and rebooking your flights for a voucher
- 19:30 – You need to be using Aerolopa when you pick (or upgrade) your seats
- 21:40 – Why Kyle and Gunnar use TripIt to organize their reservations
- 28:20 – Gunnar gushes about his favorite app for dealing with disruptions: Flighty
- 32:10 – PreCheck saves you from 98% of things you hate about going through the airport
- 35:30 – Window or aisle?
- 41:30 – The travel debit card that every member of our team has: Charles Schwab
- 46:40 – Listener Question: Carry-on or checked bag with a 2-hour layover in Paris
- 50:45 – On the Spot: Gunnar’s snobbiest travel take
Produced by Gunnar Olson & Erica Kamrowski
Edited by David Strutt
Show music: “All That” by Benjamin Tissot
Episode #19 – Kyle, I feel ya big time RE: standing in line for security and people are not prepared or act surprised that they need to remove metal, liquids, etc. Hello… what have you been looking at for the last 20 minutes while waiting? Paying attention to your surroundings and taking social cues helps everyone. Phew, exits soapbox! (I think this can apply to the check-out line in the grocery store too! :-))
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https://westcoasttours.co.uk/tours/tour-mull-iona-and-staffa/
Fellow travel enthusiast from the Midwest here!
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Great podcast! Thanks for all the great information.
Hello Gunnar,
I am enjoying and appreciating all you travel savings information. Would you please help us finding an appropriate venue to get results form lost bag by United? In June last yWe re senior citizens 1K United. Last year in June we checked 6 bags from LAX to HNL. One of the bags never arrived and we filled a claim at HNL. There was lack or no communication from United including corporate. We provided photos and invoices for 4 pro racing high end OZONE kites $12,500.00. The bag never made it “downstairs” after being check at 1K counter at LAX. I wrote countless letters , got a lots of lying and contradicting run around or no responses. Now we found out someone is selling our stolen kites on E-Bay because they all have serial numbers and person who bought one of the kites very ‘cheap” called Ozone co. to ask why is someone selling a $4,000.OO kite for $1,500.00 and the company contacted us since they have record of us paying a full price. E-Bay is not taking any responsibility. Now United finally e-mailed us claiming they do not cover “sports equipment”. Our bags were handed to United employees and they should be responsible. Would you have any suggestions how can we recover our losses? I would appreciate any suggestion you could provide. I know its not what you are about but since you have lots of travel experience maybe you know something that can help us. Keep up the good work.