Messy 2022 holiday travel leaves lessons learned

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – The traces that stretched across the Ted Stevens Anchorage Worldwide Airport kiosk desk and terminals have vanished because the 2022 vacation journey season wraps up.

For a lot of passengers, it marks the conclusion marks of a messy season of journey which was crammed with quite a few canceled flights, snoozes on laborious airport seats and misplaced baggage. Alaska Travelgram Writer Scott McMurren says that the chaos of the season might need left Alaskans with some laborious classes realized.

“With this current meltdown over the vacation season, it simply goes to indicate you that you have to take some extra steps,” McMurren stated.

Through the vacation season, ANC continued to advise passengers to examine the standing of their flight earlier than heading to the airport, urging them, that their finest useful resource could be to contact their particular person airways.

“Earlier than you permit your own home, examine in, and often, your app could have probably the most present info,” McMurren stated. “You don’t need to be getting out of the automotive, getting out of your taxi or no matter, to search out that your flight is delayed.”

That’s simply one of many ideas McMurren has in his Airport Survival Information 2023. Along with that, he recommends that vacationers join International Entry to assist them reduce down on time when making an attempt to undergo safety.

McMurren additionally recommends buying journey insurance coverage, avoiding tight connections when reserving flights and ensuring to have the airline apps downloaded. McMurren stated that these particular steps can higher assist vacationers keep knowledgeable on any delays or adjustments in gates.

One of many final issues McMurren instructed on his record is to have a strategy to monitor your checked bag.

“This vacation season is proof that the airline could have misplaced your bag and so they could not have the ability to discover it. So, you have to monitor your individual baggage,” McMurren stated.

Gadgets like Apple AirTags, McMurren stated may help vacationers know precisely the place their bag is.

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