Creative event teaches you how to take a travel sabbatical by connecting attendees with former and current long term travelers.
Sep
17
Meet Plan Go Event Kicks Off Your Travel Sabbatical
Jun
14
Travelers Be Warned! Don’t Let This Travel Scam Happen To You
Last month AirTreks’ Customer Service team was dismayed to receive a report about a check-in counter travel scam that resulted in one of our clients having an unexpected and quite substantial financial loss. Since we’re of the mindset that knowledge equals power, I’d like to inform our blog readers so that they can feel empowered [...]
May
11
Tokyo’s Sky Tree Is So Tall
If you’re a person into superlatives, you’ll want to read this. The newest edition to Tokyo’s skyline is now the world’s tallest tower, the second tallest freestanding structure and may have the most expensive ticket price for any single travel attraction. The Tokyo Sky Tree is finally complete and now stands at a majestic 634 [...]
Apr
17
Munich Airport Installs a Sleeping Pod
To sleep peacefully in an airport terminal is a comfort not many of us know. Most of us are relegated to the misery of cold tiled floors and iron armrests sticking into our backs. Fortunately a few airports have taken pity on those long-connection unforntunates stumbling around in the early morning. Munich Airport is the [...]
Jan
18
Don't Censor the Web
Politics and business usually don’t mix, especially here at AirTreks. We have clients from all over the world and all over the political spectrum. We are in the business of fulfilling travel dreams (or putting asses into airline seats, depending on who you talk to), so we usually leave the politics to the political blogs. [...]
Dec
15
AirTreks Makes Condé Nast's Travel Specialists List for 2012
We’ve got plenty to be excited about here at the AirTreks World Headquarters – a successful year with public appearances at the Book Passage Travel Writers and Photographers Conference, Tbex, and Meet Plan Go. But this month our excitement centers around our inclusion on the 2012 edition of the Condé Nast Travel Specialists Collection. The [...]
Dec
13
Groupon Amazes With a Terrible Deal on an RTW Ticket
In my inbox yesterday I saw the most recent potboiler from Groupon: two around the world tickets for $10,000* USD offered up by the Sky Team Alliance. This of course came as a surprise to me since my experience with Groupon has only been for offers of a banal assortment of spa treatments, wine tastings [...]
Nov
07
Welcome to TripPlanner version 6.0
Over the past several months, we here at AirTreks have released a series of new and exciting developments to our average visitor’s user experience. At the beginning of the year there was a total homepage redesign, which we love, then we launched the super cool and insanely useful Travelbase. Now we’re pleased to introduce our [...]
Sep
16
Passport Day in the USA is tomorrow!
In case you missed the last one (not to worry, everyone did) tomorrow is the new date for Passport Day in the USA. Whether you need to renew your old passport or get a new one now’s a perfect opportunity to take care of that pre-trip to-do. Passport Day is the government’s attempt to help [...]
Sep
14
AirTreks Announces Travelbase – A Place to Ask & Answer Travel Questions
Here at AirTreks we’re always working to improve our community’s ability to get the best trip they possibly can. Earlier this year we launched Ready Set Go, three sections on our home page where we placed our best tips for planning and taking a great international trip. We’ve now added a new resource to further [...]