Tag: traveling

  • Negotiating the open middle seat

    If you’ve flown in the past, it might seem impossible. But if you’re flying in the present (age of the virus), it’s actually becoming probable: an open middle seat. Indeed, I’m looking at one as I type this. Find yourself and your row-mate with an open middle seat, and you find yourself with a negotiation.…

  • Coalitions with co-travelers: Making delays negotiable

    I’ve experienced a lot of flight delays, but never arrived at an airport seven hours before a delayed flight departed. Such was the case on a recent trip from St. Louis to Baltimore. Thanks to some substantial snowfall somewhere else, the plane that was supposed to return me to Baltimore was arriving in St. Louis…