You’re shopping around for flights and have a choice of flights at 6:15am or 7:01pm. The 6:15am one is cheaper but you’d have to wake up at way-too-early o’clock and …
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Update: The Time It Now Takes To Get A U.S. Passport Or Global Entry
by SharonKurhegby SharonKurhegLast July, I wrote a piece about how the government has just quietly tripled how long it would take to get a passport. About six months have passed and although …
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Tragic: Body Of “Child Stowaway” Found In Air France Plane Undercarriage
by SharonKurhegby SharonKurhegWhen people travel, it’s usually for business or pleasure, or at least something productive. Unfortunately, when the mode of travel is used the wrong way, it can turn into a …
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Why You Shouldn’t Try To Fly These Airlines To Get Back Home To The U.S. Or U.K./Europe
by SharonKurhegby SharonKurhegSince the last half of the last century, it really has become a small world. With few exceptions, it’s relatively easy to fly to just about any other country in …
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We’ve had Global Entry for around seven years but don’t use the service all that often because we only travel outside the U.S. once or twice a year, if even …
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Restaurant Review: Cask & Larder, Orlando Int’l Airport
by SharonKurhegby SharonKurhegI’ve written about the lounges available at Orlando Airport. However, the one section that doesn’t have a lounge nearby are gates 100-129, which services Southwest and Alaska Airlines. All hope …
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We arrived at JFK Terminal 4 via the AirTrain after picking up our luggage from the TWA Hotel. After checking in for our flight with Singapore Airlines, we headed through …
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Have Global Entry? Well, There’s Some Good News And Some Bad News
by SharonKurhegby SharonKurhegFor the past several years, citizens of the United States and nearly a dozen other countries have been able to use Global Entry, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) …
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I originally wrote about this back in the summer of 2018 and, on a whim, I decided to revisit it to see how the product is doing, if the company …
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Here’s Why it’s Taken Berlin Brandenburg Airport NINE YEARS To Finally Have An Opening Date
by SharonKurhegby SharonKurhegIf you’re a regular reader of Boarding Area, you probably saw a lot of bloggers write in the past week or so that, at long last, Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) …