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What to Do If You Are Stuck in an Airport During Holidays
Christmas and New Year’s Eve are just around the corner. It is a busy period for traveling, especially this holiday is concentrated within a couple of weeks so that there is at least more room for flexibility than Thanksgiving. Let us review the various tips we have gathered around the Web as well as our own tips. Preparation – Before leaving 1. Book your tickets now / yesterday Well, if you have not done so yet, you will have … Read entire article »
Filed under: Airline, Holidays, Social Media, What if
What if you are stranded on Thanksgiving ?
What if you are stranded on Thanksgiving ? Thanksgiving is happening this week in the US. Thanksgiving day is a historic tradition of celebrating with family, friends, food, and giving thanks for all the good we have in our lives. Hence, this is one of the busiest period for traveling, especially this holiday is concentrated within a few days so that there is not much room for flexibility. Let us review the various tips we’ve gathered around the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Airport, Holidays, Social Media, What if
What if you’re stranded and Twitter doesn’t work? 10 things you can do to your travel plans back on track
See also version on SimpliFlying In previous articles published in collaboration with SimpliFlying (see crisis management section) and at SOStravelers.com, we have shown how Twitter can be very useful if you get stuck in an airport or in some remote place because of an earthquake or various other reasons. Thanks to Twitter, you may be able to connect to your airline company, become a follower, send and receive direct messages. It may actually be faster than … Read entire article »
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Top 10 things to do if you are stuck at an airport when the next Hurricane Irene or earthquake strikes US East Coast
On August 27, 2011, Hurricane Irene hit the US East Coast, all the way up to New York City! Just prior to that, on August 23rd, an earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter Scale hit the US east coast. It shook the nation’s Capital and was felt strongly in New York but luckily not many were hurt. It happened just hours after the strongest earthquake in Colorado in 40 years, and one in Colombia. Airports … Read entire article »
Filed under: Airline, Airport, Facebook, Google+, Social Media, Twitter, What if
12 ways airports can turn stranded travelers into happy customers in the next crisis
A day before our partner Shashank Nigam from SimpliFlying spoke about putting the joy back into the airport experience at the Annual ACI Conference in Lisbon, we at SOSTravelers.com suggested to write a guest article as a follow up to ‘How to empower stranded travelers‘. We decided that that the next article could be on how to help airports turn stranded travelers into happy consumers. This is a very challenging question since, by definition, stranded travelers are in a … Read entire article »
Filed under: Airport, Facebook, Featured, Social Media, Twitter
The first story – Tweet about your situation, SOStravelers may be able to contact you
It happened in the beginning of May 2011. An airline strike started in India: Air India stopped most of its National flights. A man named C. Henderson especially opened a Twitter account in order to find some help using social media. His first tweet was: Air India is on strike. I need to find alternate airline to rebook my flight so I don’t miss my connection to Amsterdam. Can anyone help? We, as SOStravelers, have set up a series of … Read entire article »
Filed under: Airline, Social Media, Twitter
stranded travelers are basically no longer on their own
This is a comment to the article: Your flight’s been canceled? What to do if you’re stuck It is a useful article and I’d like to add some comments regarding the part of “Tweet for help”: It is not only with the airline that you can connect but also with peers who are around you and who also wish to find a solution to their problem. Why not start ‘socializing’ and go with few others to a restaurant or … Read entire article »
How to empower stranded travelers ?
When a traveler is stranded for whatever reason, there is a need to be creative in order to find some constructive solutions to this situation or else plan on enduring an unpleasant event. This post looks at 12 simple and complex ways to actually empower the stranded traveler mostly located in an airport or stuck in a foreign location far away from home. 1. Find a hotspot It is crucial if you wish to connect to the Internet: … Read entire article »
Filed under: Airline, Airport, Facebook, Social Media, Twitter