When snow accumulation is more or less than predicted, flights are likely to be affected. Brett Snyder, a top travel specialist for emergency airline assistance, and a contributor to the Daily Traveler blog, explains four steps you need to know when dealing with possible flight changes for a storm.

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Nearly 40% of Travel Leaders Group’s business-focused travel agents have indicated that business clients will be traveling more in 2014 than last year and nearly another 40% state client bookings will be the same as in 2013, according to the results of the top business travel trends survey from Travel Leaders Group that was released today. The findings are fairly consistent with 2013 findings in a year-over-year comparison. In addition, the survey revealed that delayed flights are the top concern for business travel clients, and found that there is an ever-growing demand for access to Wi-Fi inflight and virtually everywhere else. Conducted November 11 – December 14, 2013, these business travel trends are based on responses from 424 Travel Leaders Group owners, managers and frontline travel experts throughout the United States who identified that 50% or more of their portfolio consists of business travel clients.

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It’s 2014, and human beings are the largest they’ve ever been. Taller, wider, broader in the shoulders: millennia of evolution and modern lifestyle factors have all contributed to the fact that people are just bigger than they used to be.

And part of our modern lifestyle means people travel more — even the largest of us. Whether airlines call them customers of size, larger guests, fat flyers, or plumper passengers, people who need to travel are showing no signs of getting thinner.

Yet airline seats are getting narrower.

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