{"id":41744,"date":"2024-01-04T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=41744"},"modified":"2024-01-02T17:24:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T00:24:16","slug":"avoiding-baggage-fees-busiest-flight-routes-places-you-cant-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/avoiding-baggage-fees-busiest-flight-routes-places-you-cant-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding Baggage Fees\/Busiest Flight Routes\/Places You Can&#8217;t Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A weekly newsletter with four quick bites, edited by Tim Leffel, author of\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/cbjyU?utm_campaign=Nomadico&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\"><em>A Better Life for Half the Price<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The World\u2019s Cheapest Destinations<\/em>. See\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nomadico.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">past editions here,<\/a>\u00a0where your like-minded friends can subscribe and join you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Avoiding Baggage Fees on Budget Airlines<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There are plenty of ways to get bag fees covered on legacy airlines with the right status or credit card. Or you can fly Southwest. For the many budget airlines though, you either pay up or you pack super light, using some kind of \u201cunderseat bag.\u201d I pulled it off on 3 recent international flights and saved the equivalent of a whole luggage set at Costco.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cheapestdestinationsblog.com\/2023\/12\/26\/baggage-fees-underseat\/\">Here\u2019s how it worked out<\/a>, plus some suggestions for a personal item bag that fits under the seat and in the sizers.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/iAQAjIR\">Here\u2019s the cheapest option<\/a>&nbsp;if you\u2019re not sure you can travel like this more than once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>The Busiest Flight Routes This Year<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>OAG released their list of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oag.com\/busiest-routes-world-2023\">the world\u2019s busiest air routes<\/a>&nbsp;for 2023 and the #1 combo is a short one: Singapore-Kuala Lumpur. Turns out that 7 of the top 10 are in Asia and most are short, but #2 was Cairo-Jeddah and #6 was Dubai-Riyadh. The only western route was #8 NYC-London. Bangkok, Seoul, and Singapore each showed up twice. The busiest domestic route in the world? Seoul to Jeju (Cheju), in Korea, which has held the crown for years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Robots Aren\u2019t Good Travel Agents Yet<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re not sick enough of reading about Artificial Intelligence on all the year-end news lists, here\u2019s a fun and detailed look at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/travel-planning-with-ai-i-tested-it-for-a-city-i-know-inside-and-out\/\">how it\u2019s working out so far in the travel world<\/a>. CNET\u2019s Senior European Correspondent asked a bunch of AI travel planning tools to arrange a trip in her city of Edinburgh and\u2026let\u2019s just say she\u2019d be doing a lot of pointless driving around, sometimes to places that have been closed for years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Places You Can\u2019t Visit in 2024<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I liked CNN\u2019s departure from the usual crappy \u201cplaces to go next year\u201d lists to run down lots of places we&nbsp;<em>can\u2019t<\/em>&nbsp;go instead. These range from a collapsed rock formation to a Star Wars-themed hotel that failed spectacularly to the restaurant that closed after being tagged as the best in the entire world.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/travel\/tourist-attractions-closed-2024\/index.html\">See the list here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nomadico issue #85<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2385],"tags":[2386],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41745,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41744\/revisions\/41745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}