Tagged with `flight`

How To Get Bumped Off Your Flight On Purpose

Sometimes you feel lucky if the flight is overbooked and you are bumped to next available flight. Why? Usually you will get a free hotel or free flight voucher to compensate for the inconvenience. Did you know that airlines regularly overbook their flights on purpose? It’s all a numbers game, and perfectly legal. They know that…

10 Tips on Maximizing Laptop Battery Performance

Jeremy Toeman, a frequent flyer, experimented number of ways to maximize battery life for his laptop – and he has developed a list of tips on get the best maximize time out of the laptop battery. He suggests 10 of them: Brightness: how low can you go? Don’t use any external devices. Single-task, not multi-task. Keep it cool. Shut down…

Tip For Best Purchase Time of Airline Tickets

AARP suggests that Wednesday from midnight to 1a.m. in the time zone of the airline’s “home base” is the best time to purchase a ticket directly from the airline. The reason being the airline software will cancel all unbooked reservations – that includes discounted fare hence you will likely to see some cheaper fare. Not sure…