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Your Favorite Frequent Business Traveler Articles in 2011
As the year draws to a close, we present our year-end recap of the Frequent Business Traveler articles that resonated most strongly with you in 2011.
The pieces range from reviews of flights aboard some of the most-talked-about new commercial aircraft, to test drives of luxury cars, to your takes on what hotels aren’t doing right.
1.) Exclusive Interview: American Airlines Officials Discuss Boeing, Airbus Deal
Jonathan Spira gets the scoop from then …
The Complete Guide to European Delivery Programs
How to Pick Up Your New Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, or Volvo in Europe, Drive on the Autobahn, and Save Money
When I was 10 or 11, I accompanied my parents to the local Mercedes-Benz dealer for them to discuss ordering a car. Unlike the way my friends’ parents purchased cars, which was to pick one out at a local dealership, my parents were planning to pick up a new Mercedes-Benz …
How I Spent My Summer Vacation: Plugged In and Tuned Out
Many Executive Road Warrior magazine readers travel frequently and I am no exception. In the past three months, I’ve flown roughly 25,000 miles (40,000 km) and made several extended trips by car. Most of my travel is business travel (even though I always try to squeeze in a day or so in the area I‘m in to do something interesting) so a vacation is then a time to unplug and …
Extreme Road Warrior Part II: The First BMW Welt Delivery
The challenge: fly 6000 kilometers, pick up two cars, drive almost 4000 kilometers, stay at seven different hotels, attend two all-day events, nine meetings, and five dinner meetings, and fly back.
The beginning of article comes to you from Brugge, Belgium, at least that’s where I think I am.
On October 15, I found myself on Lufthansa Flight 411 to Munich, arriving in time for the October 17 opening of the …
Extreme Road Warrior
I’m writing this from Hamburg, at least I think that’s where I am. Sometimes trips can be just plain boring. This one was most decidedly not. In a 16 day whirlwind tour I would stay in seven hotels and would span 9 cities to cover, however briefly: Munich, Vienna, Munich (again), Hamburg, Flensburg, Sønderborg, Brugge, Düsseldorf, Bremen, and Bremerhaven. Countries: Denmark, Germany, Austria, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany.
Normally my trips last …
BMW’s Brave New World
Visitors to Munich have always thought of the city as a kind of BMW world. Not only is the automaker headquartered there, but the cars themselves are as ubiquitous as the beer and are even used as police cars and taxis.
As a company, BMW has always presented a distinctive image, from its logo, a stylized spinning propeller against a blue sky, to its buildings, which include the Vierzylinder (Four Cylinder) …
