Travel Tonic

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One major travel headache is behind us, but for some, another holiday airport rush is less than a month away. Wired’s HowTo Wiki collects advice for those still buying tickets and anyone who arrives to find their flights delayed or even canceled. Here’s one tip your local meteorologist never bothered to tell you:

Think about the direction of your flight – If you’re flying to the East or Gulf coasts, book departures early in the day. In general, storm systems throughout the country tend to kick up later in the day, so avoid early evening departures.

If your flight does get canceled, the wiki notes that calling the airline from a cellphone can be much more useful than waiting in a long line filled with angry customers. Of course, if you can’t get on another flight, you might want to stake out a good spot to sleep. What lessons did you learn from your Thanksgiving flights? Share your hard-won wisdom in the comments.

Avoid Air Travel Delays [Wired How To Wiki]

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Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): Flight-tracking website Yapta, previously mentioned here when it was an Internet Explorer-only extension, has released a Firefox version of its tagging tool. The same principle applies—head to an airline or travel aggregation website, start the standard date/passengers form rolling, and then click the “Tag it with Yapta” button on any flights you want to watch. You can then set Yapta to email you any time your tagged flights change in price by a dollar amount you choose. Yapta is a free download, which requires a sign-up at Yapta’s website to function, and it works wherever Firefox does.

Yapta 1.1 [Firefox Add-ons]

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Lifehacker’s Adam Pash just posted this article:

Find a good place to curl up and catch some shut-eye at the airport this holiday season with tips from web site Sleeping in Airports. For example:

When you’re forced to stay over in an airport due to airline problems, make sure you are granted access to their lounge. This is especially recommended for the airports with uncomfortable chairs out in the main transit/departures lounge with the usual riff-raff.

Designed for budget travelers looking to save a few bucks when traveling, Sleeping in Airports may be just what you need during that red-eye delay now that one of the busiest travel days of the year upon us.

How to Sleep in an Airport 101 [Sleeping in Airports via MakeUseOf]

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