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    When Flights Go Sideways: How to Take Control of Your Travel Day

    by joeheg September 21, 2025
    by joeheg September 21, 2025

    Flights don’t always go as planned. A single storm, crew delay, or equipment issue can cascade across the entire airline network, stranding thousands of travelers in unexpected places. When that …

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  • Hotels

    Hyatt’s Wonky Math on Hotel Deposit Makes No Sense

    by joeheg March 16, 2023
    by joeheg March 16, 2023

    I have an upcoming stay at a Hyatt property and am completely confused by their “deposit” policy. I understand some hotels require a deposit upon booking, even if you make …

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  • Airlines

    Southwest Blames Weather For Its Troubles. Here’s What Staff Says

    by SharonKurheg December 27, 2022
    by SharonKurheg December 27, 2022

    Southwest Airlines has been in a downward spiral since the huge amounts of snow, wind, ice and bitter cold covered the majority of the continental U.S. in the days before …

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  • Airports

    Study: When Flights Delayed/Canceled, Many Travelers Watch Porn

    by SharonKurheg August 30, 2022
    by SharonKurheg August 30, 2022

    If there’s been one consistent theme in the travel industry this year, it’s flights that have been delayed or outright canceled. Reasons run the gamut from weather to short staffing …

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  • Travel

    My Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Travel Day (With A Happy Ending)

    by joeheg June 19, 2022
    by joeheg June 19, 2022

    Typically, our travels are pretty straightforward. We fly from home to where we want to go, and back home again. For one particular trip that happened a couple of years …

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  • Travel

    COVID’s Messing With Our Plans Again, But This Time It’s Different

    by joeheg September 1, 2021
    by joeheg September 1, 2021

    Flashback to September 2020. I was sitting in this same chair, looking at a similar computer, and canceling our flights to Japan. It’s September 2021 and once again I had …

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  • Travel

    I’ve Never Been Happier To Have Canceled A Trip

    by joeheg January 15, 2021
    by joeheg January 15, 2021

    Psychologists say that people often get more satisfaction from planning and dreaming about a trip than from the trip itself. That’s because we spend way more time planning a trip …

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  • Hotels

    Watch Out For Hyatt’s New COVID-19 Cancellation Policy

    by joeheg November 9, 2020
    by joeheg November 9, 2020

    When the coronavirus pandemic took hold in the US, major hotel chains responded by changing their cancellation policies. For starters, they allowed people to cancel reservations even if they booked …

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  • Airlines

    I Hope Delta Thought Of This Before Removing Redeposit Fee On Award Tickets

    by joeheg October 2, 2020
    by joeheg October 2, 2020

    Delta Air Lines made news when they removed all fees when changing or canceling SkyMiles award tickets. This eliminates the $150 fee that Delta was charging all but its highest …

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  • Points & Miles

    I Still Won’t Fly With United, But They Did Make It Easy To Cancel An Award Ticket

    by joeheg September 8, 2020
    by joeheg September 8, 2020

    It was in June of 2018 that we decided that we would no longer fly on a United plane. There were just too many things wrong with the airline that …

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