By Eric Hrubant, Founder & CEO of CIRE Travel As corporate travel planners, we take pride in the fact that our business travel clients have our team behind them every second of their trip. We are your invisible entourage, clearing your way to …
Our Favorite Things: How Will We Know Unless We Go?
Like many of our clients, travel is part of our job, as well as our playtime. Between us five CIRE Travel planners, we have twenty destinations around the globe on our travel agendas. Yes, we can almost hear a collective chorus of the …
Global Entry? TSA Precheck? Both or Neither?
By Eric Hrubant, Founder & CEO of CIRE Travel The long, winding lines themselves are testament to airport security’s screening increasing and changing processes. While air travel will never return to the shoes-on, stroll through times of the past, there are programs aimed …
CIRE Travel’s Version of Caroling
By Eric Hrubant, Founder & CEO of CIRE Travel If we could, the CIRE staff would personally visit you for some festive caroling. Instead, we need to stay near our Manhattan office, making sure all of our clients’ travel plans go smoothly. You’ll …
How Many Airline Agents Does it Take to Change a Ticket?
By Eric Hrubant, Founder & CEO of CIRE Travel None. Just CIRE Travel. Changing an airline ticket can be a hassle, and expensive too. Something came up. A storm is coming. The system goes down. Millions of travelers are changing their flights. All …
Our Favorite Things: Flying Aboard an Emirates Airbus A380
By Eric Hrubant, Founder & CEO of CIRE Travel Private suites and shower spas in first class. Flat bed seats in business class. Extra room and ambient lighting in economy. Inflight Wi-Fi throughout the aircraft. The Emirates Airbus A380 comes as close as …
Pack Light and Carry On
By Eric Hrubant, Founder & CEO of CIRE Travel In 2014, U.S. airlines generated combined revenue of more than $3.35 billion dollars in baggage fees alone, not counting the income earned from carry-on luggage. While these fees seem here to stay, here are …
Our Favorite Things: Travelteerism Lets Travelers See the World & Serve It Too
By Eric Hrubant, Founder & CEO of CIRE Travel To travel responsibly has many different meanings for people. For some, being a responsible traveler means taking the necessary precautions to travel safely, being aware of your surroundings, dressing according to cultural norms and …
Our Favorite Things: 24 Hours in Chicago
By Eric Hrubant, Founder & CEO of CIRE Travel Saturday morning. Go time. A mid-morning flight is perfect. Not so early that you set the alarm earlier than a normal workday. Not so late that you miss out on sightseeing time. We have …
CIRE Travel’s, Eric Hrubant, Takes the Stage in Visa’s Small Business Spotlight
Eric Hrubant, Chief Travel Planning Officer and owner of CIRE Travel, was recently featured writing his last check ever – for two employees none the less – in a VISA® Small Business Spotlight. Watch the video to hear Eric talk about his history …