January 30, 2008
“The Westin Effect”
Posted by GoDeeGo on January 30, 2008 in Hotels
I have been a traveling consultant for 9 years, and that’s a long time to not sleep in ones own bed. When away from home, the bed seems to rank at the top of the list. What a disappointment when you are ready to crawl into bed after a long day’s (and night’s) work to […]
Flightstats
Posted by Noid on January 30, 2008 in Travel
I have been using this great tool for about 6 months now and its called Flightstats. It allows you to see the status of any flight, or any airport. Now it does all the cool stuff like show you a nice map with red/green/yellow indicators over the airports, email you flight updates in real time and show security line wait times, but what is really nice is the historical data on flight routes you can peruse. When I need to go to DC, for example, I can look at every carrier to BWI, Dulles or Reagan and see which route, by which carrier and at which time is usually on time. Ah…being on time…the little things in life (or the consulting life 
) that give us joy. One other great feature is their Airport Chatter where other road warriors like yourselves can post what’s happening at your local airport so the rest of us can benefit. It may be a head’s up on only 4 security scanners running or even that parking lot A is full.