# COVID safety while flying and recent travel trends

- URL: https://travelguysradio.com/2020/09/19/covid-safety-while-flying-and-recent-travel-trends
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*On the Sunday, September 20th, 2020 edition of The Travel Guys…*

- In the Travel News, travelers desperate to go ANYWHERE are holiday airfare, Shivaji Ds, The 'Other' Shangri-La, travel trendsscooping up flights to NOWHERE, we tell you why it's pretty hard to get COVID while flying and the airlines are all holding their collective breaths, hoping for more taxpayer money to avoid major layoffs.
- Our **Smarter Traveler** segment features information on what to buy and what NOT to buy: Why you should buy your holiday air tickets now, and why you should never buy jewelry on a cruise ship...
- We take you to Singapore, to meet a local author, [Shivaji Das](https://www.shivajidas.com/). His latest book is "**The 'Other' Shangri-La**".
- We talk about COVID travel trends. People really are staying closer to home, because many refuse to fly, at least for now.

## Highlights

- [Our author guest The 'Other' Shangri-La](https://www.shivajidas.com/)
- [Trump’s businesses charged Secret Service more than $1.1 million, including for rooms in club shuttered for pandemic](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/secret-service-spending-bedminster/2020/09/17/9e11e1c2-f6a0-11ea-be57-d00bb9bc632d_story.html)
- [The odds of catching Covid-19 on an airplane are slimmer than you think, scientists say](https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/odds-catching-covid-19-flight-wellness-scn/index.html)
- [A Day at Apple Hill - Sports Leisure Vacations](https://www.sportsleisure.com/vacations/day-apple-hill)
- [Information on The Wreath Project](https://www.freewebs.com/wreathproject/)
- [Mexico Travel Warning Update](https://www.travelpulse.com/news/impacting-travel/us-state-department-updates-mexico-travel-advisory.html)
- [Holland America to put five ships in Europe in 2021](https://www.travelpulse.com/news/cruise/holland-america-to-deploy-five-ship-in-europe-in-2021.html)
- [MGM in Las Vegas - Home Office Package](https://www.travelpulse.com/news/hotels-and-resorts/swap-the-home-office-for-the-las-vegas-strip-with-mgm-resorts-viva-las-office-package.html)
- [Global Entry is back, but be patient](https://chriselliotts.com/global-entry-is-back/)
- [ The Best Place for Chicken Wings in Each State](https://www.travelpulse.com/gallery/destinations/the-best-place-for-chicken-wings-in-each-state.html)

Tags: [holiday airfare](https://travelguysradio.com/tag/holiday-airfare), [holiday travel](https://travelguysradio.com/tag/holiday-travel), [Shivaji Ds](https://travelguysradio.com/tag/shivaji-ds), [The 'Other' Shangri-La](https://travelguysradio.com/tag/other-shangri-la), [travel trends](https://travelguysradio.com/tag/travel-trends)

Previous Episode: [Current COVID-19 etiquette and an interview with one of the original Burning Man attendees](https://travelguysradio.com/2020/09/13/current-covid-19-etiquette-and-interview-one-original-burning-man-attendees) — September 13, 2020
Next Episode: [What will make travelers feel safe to fly again?](https://travelguysradio.com/2020/09/27/what-will-make-travelers-feel-safe-fly-again) — September 27, 2020

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