Travel Essentials for the Non-Frequent Flyer
So, you’ve decided to take a trip. Whether you’re out on business or just want a little escape from it all, travel is the first step to freedom. We like travelers. We like them because they are like us—seekers and go-getters.
It’s important to be ready for your travels—pack the right clothes, follow the liquids rule, make sure you mark your bags and don’t forget your socks. But what’s the best way to enhance your traveling experience? Research. Read ahead. Follow the advice of experienced travelers.
5 Useful Airport Travel Tips from Frequent Flyer Blogs
- Little Things Make a Big Difference: This blog post features tips about packing, flight trackers and notification programs, gifts for those who serve you at the airport, print the essentials, save your seat and other hints and essentials to make for a top-quality flight experience, even when you don’t have 100,000 flyer miles.
- Be Smart About Your Points: This is a collection of posts that talk about how to effectively maximize your flyer points and miles in a number of ways, how to book your flights in a smart way (with Awards) and trip insurance tips for frequent travelers.
- Don’t Fear Airport Protocol: The Wall Street Journal has an entire blog dedicated to the world of travel, its changes, its current events and how you can make the most out of your trip (and not let the process overwhelm you).
- Share Your Experiences: Participate in Forums about airline programs, hotel programs, credit, debit, and prepaid card programs, car rentals, discontinued programs and other topics about your miles and points with other travelers.
- Use the Right Equipment: It’s a good thing to have a suitcase, but it’s better to have a suitcase that lasts. Carry-ons are more efficient for the every-day traveler, and this post is a great starting point to finding your perfect travel luggage.
The Perks of Being a Frequent Flyer
When you fly all the time, your biggest reward is your freedom.
Frequent Flyer Programs are incentive programs that reward customers for repeat flights and their continued loyalty to specific airlines. Creating lifetime customers is the ultimate goal of these programs—airlines want us to travel with them, so special perks are given to favorite customers. Why? Because, it is more expensive to get new customers than it is to retain repeat customers.
They more you fly, the more rewards you get and the happier everyone is, it seems.
Becoming a frequent flyer is one way to ensure an efficient trip to your next vacation or business venture, but what happens to those who can’t afford to collect frequent flyer miles and save them like money in their bank account?
Optimizing Airport Transportation: A Perk for Everyone
For the one-time flyer, racking up points and miles doesn’t fit the bill. It’s nearly a waste, especially when vacations are few and far between and your job has you in one city, every day and every year.
So how does a one-time flyer capitalize on the Frequent Flyer experience? You optimize your singular experience at the airport. Using the tips from the blogs above are a great way to cut out all of the unnecessary worries from your travels, and make you feel more in control of your trip.