Archive for Category: "Travel Detective Blog"
Travel Detective Blog: What the Foiled Underwear Bomb Plot Means for Our Security
With the most recent bomb plot splashed across the headlines, it’s important to look beyond the facts and see what we can take away from this episode. Are we safer now than we were in 2009? Is airport security sufficient? Peter turns to his Travel Detective blog to parse the lessons of this incident. It [...]
Travel Detective Blog: Why I Don’t Follow Hotel & Airline Ratings
Every week it seems that a hotel or airline is bragging about a different ranking and reward. Are these listing any more than PR fluff or should they be considered when planning a vacation? The Travel Detective doesn’t follow these rankings, instead he has some new criteria for you to use. Every time an airline [...]
What a US Airways & American Airlines Merger Would Mean
On Friday, it was announced that US Airways made deals with three American Airlines unions. Today, American Airlines started bankruptcy proceedings where they are looking to trim union expenses by $1.25 billion. The Travel Detective takes to his blog to offer a little history on US Airways and American Airlines as well as his thoughts [...]
Travel Detective Blog: Understanding the Big Mac Index
Exchange rates only tell you so much. Understanding the cost of basic goods and services in a country goes a long way toward creating an accurate travel budget. One of the tools Peter uses to do that is The Economist’s Big Mac Index. Read his latest blog to see why he uses it as a [...]
Travel Detective Blog: Why I Travel to Mexico
This past week Peter was down in Ixtapa, Mexico to prepare for his upcoming radio broadcast. Even passing through Mexico City’s 7.0 earthquake on Tuesday didn’t to dampen his enthusiasm for travel within the country. Read his latest blog to find out why he is still traveling to Mexico and you should too. Let me [...]
The Travel Detective Blog: Earthquakes, Unscheduled Landings and Checked Bags
Peter earned his moniker the Travel Detective by flying over 400,000 miles a year, so he’s no stranger to earthquakes, unscheduled landings and checked (or lost) bags. But what happens when all three hit on one day? Read his latest blog to find out. Spoiler alert: this is a story with a happy ending. It’s [...]
Travel Detective Blog: Marine Salvage & the Costa Concordia
The Costa Concordia remains in the headline, but most reports focus on the legal implications. The Travel Detective looks at what’s to come for the actual ship and breaks down the history of marine salvage in the cruise industry. There’s a dark science called marine salvage. If you’re driving your car and it gets totaled, [...]
The Travel Detective: Why U.S. Customs and Border Protection Needs to Change
The Obama administration is relaxing visa restrictions in an effort to attract more foreign visitors and boost the U.S. economy, but that is not enough. The Travel Detective lays out how U.S. Customs and Border Protection still needs to change in order for Obama’s plan to be successful. Every day people tell me about their [...]
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