Thank you for visiting Executive Nomad, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed.Terminal A at Boston’s Logan Airport features the new full body scanners at security and I took my second trip through about a half-an-hour ago. I don’t know if they make us any safer (and I wish the TSA would at...

As a frequent business traveler, I’m always conscious of the airline fees that can drive a “cheap” ticket into something much more expensive — and more of pain. Spirit Airlines announcement yesterday that they are starting to charge for carry-on bags that won’t fit under...

If there is one topic guaranteed to spur spirited debate among business travelers it is airline seats — which are bearable and which are not, which rows are preferable on which aircraft, and how best to get a coveted upgrade and the extra leg room that comes with it. If New Zealand is on your itinerary...

I’ve bemoaned the arrival of wifi in the sky — the plane cabin is one of the last places where one could be blisfully untethered from e-mail — but felt obliged to try it today out of professional curiosity. I’m currently flying to Atlanta on Delta, blogging live from 10,000+ feet. Delta’s...

As we head toward a new year it is a good time to look at what lies ahead when we head to the airport. In a phrase, it isn’t pretty. The thwarted on-board bombing on a Northwest flight headed from Amsterdam to Detroit portends increased airport security with the attendant longer lines and waits....

If you find yourself sitting in coach more often these days, and who among us has not had tighter restrictions put on travel, you likely know the “pleasure” of having your knees wedged into a seat back as you fly. Increasingly, there are options — if you are willing to pay for them,...

Check the overhead bin! As we head into this hellish travel weekend, we thought we’d share this humorous piece by a former Northwest Airlines flight attendant: I was a sound sleep. Suddenly I woke to a voice on the public address system: “Morning, folks. This is your captain speaking. We’re...

Like many frequent travelers, your Nomad-in-Chief has been stranded for long periods of time in many airports around the world.  Weather, mechanical problems, the list goes on and on. The first challenge, of course, is getting a straight answer to how long the delay will be. Particularly annoying was...

We don’t often run memorial tributes on Executive Nomad but the song Leaving on a Jet Plane is about as close as we get to a business travel anthem. With that, we mark the passing of singer Mary Travers (who certainly did her share of “business trips” while on tour) with sadness, gratitude,...

Here’s safety information on major and regional airlines courtesy of Daily Beast. The good news is that your chance of dying in a crash on a U.S. airline is about one in 13 million. The bad news, at least for me, is that my next business trip has me on United — which has the lowest ranking...