Whether you travel a little or a lot, it’s always good to have the best advice available from an industry veteran. Here are some tips from one of our in-house experts to help you travel like a pro…
Tip 1: Say hello to your flight attendants prior to boarding
Flight attendants are there to “attend to our needs during the flight.” They are not our personal servants. A simple ‘hello’ shows them that you recognize them as fellow humans. Make eye contact, smile, talk to them in the tone of a friend or neighbor. This gives you the upper hand over your fellow passengers, who are so busy rushing to their seats that they brush right past these folks.
Tip 2: “Feed me Seymour, feed me”
I’ve never board a flight, without some sort of trinket for the flight crew. Some cookies, magazines, candies, mints, or popcorn. Typically, they are rushing to the airport to make their flights and don’t have time to stop for goodies. Trust me, the crew talks. Didn’t you wonder how the passenger in 9B kept getting free boxes of snacks and one-on-one attention throughout the whole flight? Well, mystery solved.
Tip 3: You will need only half of the things that you feel you MUST bring
To my fellow fashionistas: Try to pack clothes that are in the same color family, preferably dark. Be advised you can’t be a fashionista with stains on your clothes. Dark clothes mask a multitude of sins. Pack on the concepts of layers. Less is more. In travel, the key is simplicity. Roll your clothes to save room in your suitcase. Or use Ziploc bags. Use your belts to line your collars. It keeps them crisp and reduces the space needed for the belts. By the way, pill containers make better organizers for your baubles than jewelry rolls. Yup, you are welcome.
Tip 4: Yes, my 10-year-old piece of luggage is fragile!
I actually learned this tip from a professional baggage handler: A little duct tape goes a long way in the airline industry. This is an amazing trick to help ensure your bag is not ruined by baggage handlers. Your luggage will be taken off the plane right after the priority bags too! This will reduce your wait time at baggage claim as well and anything that can do that is a plus!
Tip 5: Just my two cent’s worth
This is travel law: Take two wall phone chargers, two car phone chargers and two battery packs for your digital cameras (if you still use those). Keep them in a zippered water-resistant bag.
Tip 6: If you don’t abide by rule number 5, noted above, see below
If you don’t listen and forget your wall charger, you can still charge your devices through the USB port on the television. Most modern televisions have a USB port on the back or side of the TV. Use your USB cord and plug right in. Double check your charging icon and you are good to go.
Tip 7: Better safe than sorry
Always have a copy of your passport, visas and driver’s license sitting in your personal email, just in case. Hopefully, you will never need to access the info, but forewarned is forearmed.
Tip 8: No Comprendo? No Problemo!
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The European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (EBACE 2022) gets underway at Geneva's Palexpo from May 23-25.
The UAS team will be exhibiting at booth A22 and welcoming delegates and offering expertise on the best customized international trip support solutions to meet operators’ unique needs.
UAS will launch its advanced trip planning technology, Global Trip Manager, with delegates invited to stop by and enjoy a demo at booth A22.
Marketing Team UAS International Trip Support | - 05/17/2022
Mitch Launius
Instructor Pilot for 30 West IP
Mitch is the CEO of 30 West IP where he is also an instructor providing pilot training on international procedures. With an illustrious career of over 34 years in the cockpit, Mitch has acquired over 13,000 hours of flight time flying worldwide, with over 9,000 hours of this in Challenger and Gulfstream aircraft. He is an experienced safety officer and was also an IS-BAO project manager for a fortune 500 flight department. He has presented on Safety and Operations topics at the NBAA International Operators Conference and the Canadian Business Aviation Association Convention and is currently on the NBAA International Operators Committee and serves as the North Atlantic Regional Lead. Mitch is also a member of an FAA working group on General Aviation International Authorizations and Tabletop Exercises (GIATE). He was recently selected to represent IBAC as a member of the ICAO Personal Training and Licensing Panel (PTLP) and was also recently named as a 2020 recipient of the NBAA Tony Kern Professionalism in Aviation Award for his contribution to the business aviation community.
Henry ‘Duke’ LeDuc
Director Of Operations, Americas, UAS International Trip Support
Duke has been a dearly respected member of UAS Americas team and the UAS global family for more than five years. A safety-oriented, FAA-licensed aircraft dispatcher, he oversees all of the operations of the elite UAS Operations Team. With twenty-five years of experience in aviation overall with more than fifteen years of experience in international flight planning and VVIP trip coordination, he is responsible for the development of the dispatch training program and involved in the strategic development of UAS Americas. With a myriad of rich aviation experience behind him, he has extensive experience in worldwide operations with both corporate and charter environments, including seven years as Operations/Dispatch Manager in an industry-leading, Fortune 500, IS-BAO Stage III Certified corporate flight department. Duke is frequently asked shares his knowledge at major industry events and is currently serving on the NBAA’s International Operators Conference (IOC) Planning Committee.
Dudley King
President and Founder, FlightBridge
Dudley is the Founder and President of FlightBridge, which he established in 2011 and has been focused on technology solutions for the private aviation industry since 2006. Since he graduated from Dartmouth in 1988, he has worked with an array of companies listed anywhere from VentureWire to the Fortune 100. A rare blend of executive, entrepreneur, and consultant, Dudley’s executive roles have included acting CIO positions for several companies and tech advisory services to CEOs trying to rebuild their technology organizations or looking for an external, professional point of view. Highly skilled at deeply understanding his customer’s business challenges and drawing from a long and varied experience in information technology services, Dudley excels at designing technology solutions to solve their problems.
Dr. Paulo Alves
Global Medical Director, Aviation Health, Medaire
Paulo has extensive experience in medical advisory in the aviation industry. As a cardiologist, he provides technical guidance and analysis for MedAire’s MedLink medical advisory service and is MedAire’s liaison with civil aviation regulators and industry associations. Paulo worked with Varig Brazilian Airlines for 23 years, 10 of which were spent as General Medical Manager. A member of the MedAire Medical Advisory Board, Paulo is also President of the Ibero-American Aerospace Medical Association, a member of the International Academy of Aerospace Medicine, a member of the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) Safety Committee, a Fellow of the Aerospace Medical Association (AsMA), and a Fellow of the Civil Aviation Medical Association. Throughout his illustrious career, Paulo has held industry leadership roles including Chairperson of the AsMA’s Air Transport Medicine Committee, President of the Airlines Medical Directors Association, President of the Brazilian Society of Aerospace Medicine and was a member of the IATA Medical Advisory Group from 2002 to 2006.
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