Sequestering travelers

The Federal Government is facing a deadline that will  affect the American economy. As individuals a citizen may not completely understand how such deadlines as the “automatic federal spending budget cuts” that went into place Friday, March 1, affect their personal life. As a traveler the federal deadline has serious implications according to facts and opinions travel experts explained to Fred Gebhart and Maria Lenhart of Travel Market Expert. Travel journalists should brace themselves as experts expect:

Threatened reductions in air traffic controllers, customs clearance officers, and TSA officials staffing airport checkpoints risk long lines, system slow-downs, and general delays.

In addition, Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood warned that sequestration would have ‘serious impacts on transportation services that are critical to the traveling public.’

As tensions build and budget cuts begin to take effect the travel journalist should look to methods of saving time and money while traveling –much like the methods outlined throughout the text. Now is time more than ever for journalist to practice traveling frugally.