by steveg | Aug 19, 2025 | Weekly Travel Alert
Air Canada has ground to a halt after more than 10,000 flight attendants walked off the job, canceling about 700 flights a day and stranding 130,000 passengers. The Canadian government quickly ordered crews back to work through binding arbitration, but the union...
by steveg | Aug 12, 2025 | Weekly Travel Alert
Executive Travel’s Airfare Index has now recorded four straight months of falling airfares. Our August 5 update confirmed what we first noticed in July—prices are dropping, and not just a little. With fall and winter (outside the holiday rush) on the horizon, seasonal...
by steveg | Aug 5, 2025 | Weekly Travel Alert
Delta Air Lines has quietly rolled out artificial intelligence tools that personalize airfare pricing not just by demand and route, but by you. Red flags are being thrown up with concerns their AI-driven pricing engine analyzes your purchase history, travel frequency,...
by steveg | Jul 29, 2025 | Weekly Travel Alert
This week I am taking a 7 day cruise onboard the luxury Seabourn cruise line on their vessel Quest, sailing northbound from Vancouver, BC, Canada to Juneau, Alaska. We are bringing our whole family on the cruise of a lifetime. Alaska has become one of several bucket...
by steveg | Jul 22, 2025 | Weekly Travel Alert
Travel industry experts are scratching their heads this summer. After three years of post-COVID revenge travel and sky-high demand, the summer of 2025 has thrown a surprising curveball—global travel is slumping. Airfares to Europe are down nearly 50% from the same...
by steveg | Jul 15, 2025 | Weekly Travel Alert
This week I am coming to you from the medieval Village of Montone, Italy. I spent the last week with our team in Italy as we put together all the pieces of our company meeting, which we will hold in November of this year. Our meeting is called Simplifying Travel 2025....
