It goes without saying that travel has changed drastically in the past decade. Gone are the days of enormous seats, whizzing through the security line, free snacks and mystery meals on plastic trays. We now live in a post-9/11 world-strapped for cash, driven by technology, constantly worried by the unknown. These factors affect many aspects of society and business, but have hit travel in a specific number of ways.
These are the three biggest changes travel has experienced since 1993, according to a recent USA Today article by Bill McGee, who has been documenting the shifts in travel tendencies for years.
1. Security
A business merger is no new concept, but recently, many airline executives, analysts and even politicians wager that less competition in the market will prove positive for customers. Airlines have, subsequently, been merging at a rapid pace. Qantas and Emirates, US Airways and American Airlines and Southwest and AirTran are just some of the carriers who have joined forces in the past 10 years.
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