Warning..Do Not Make These 10 Travel Mistakes at Airports in 2025

Hey there. Today I'm sharing 10 travel mistakes I will not make in the year 2025. There are 10 disastrous airport mistakes that airline passengers are still making and I have even made some of those mistakes. So you are going to learn from me 10 travel tips and tricks to avoid these recurring mistakes passengers are still making in the airport. In 2025 you are going to have less stress because you stress less. Number one is arriving late. I arrived I did not look at the boarding time this year for my flight and I was running. That should never happen to me. Here is why this mistake can be disastrous for you. Number one you're stressed. Number two you are in a hurry and when we are in a hurry we forget things. We lose things. Important vacation travel essentials like your identification, your phone. We are so distracted because we arrived late to the airport and therefore maybe we did not take a picture of the parking deck area column for the return flight home. The number two mistake that passengers are making is holding your phone loosely walking through the airport, walking through the airport parking deck. This mistake can lead to an easy target for theft. This phone is going to give a thief high profit if they can sell it over. So in the airport you have not gotten through to the safe zone yet so that is prime target for theft. If they can steal your phone because you were loosely holding on to it they can make a lot of money and you can lose valuable information. In an effort to be smart several of my viewers have made this third airport mistake and that is wearing a hidden money belt or this one that I have shared several times because it holds two passports. They think they're being smart in the airport but it cannot be worn when you go through airport security. You may have heard the airport security officer saying nothing inside your pockets even Kleenexes. Sometimes that depends on the technology age in your airport security or in the one that you're going to be going through on the return flight. And here's a travel hack. One thing that you can do to protect your valuables is use one of your personal item bags for your valuables. And here's what I mean. Once you show your identification picture on a passport or your driver's license and your phone whatever has the barcode on it for your ticket you're going to immediately hide those in an inside pocket that also zips in either personal item bag type that you travel with. I don't know if you heard this story but in Miami they had on video a TSA security officer who was stealing valuables out of a person's bag. So we want to slow them down or make them think oh there's nothing valuable here that's easily accessible. So they're going to go on to the next unknowing passenger. The number four mistake is underestimating the lines in airport security. First of all holidays. Holidays are completely crowded now in airports which means there are longer lines but it also means this travel tip. There are going to be infrequent travelers who do not watch my videos who do not know how to be ready to go through the security line. So they're going to be slowing down the lines or they did not pack their liquids correctly which means they're going to be pulled out of line to be hand screened or wanded and that's going to slow down the lines which means you are going to get to your flight late and it might not even be your fault. Number two there are so many people now who are assuming their airport is going to say oh don't take anything out of your bags and so they're going to pack their liquids in different spots or they're going to pack a larger container or number three they're going to pack something that is really a liquid that they did not know was a liquid. And here's your travel tip. It's an easy way to avoid this mistake. You are going to assume and know that in fact the liquids rule still stands and your liquids have to be packed in a clear quart-sized bag even if someone in the comments section says that it's they do that all the time and they never get stopped. It does not mean it happens at your airport or in that country or in that state. The rule still stands because safety is their number one priority. Just think of all the things you could do in that 20 minutes while you're standing in line in the airport like getting coffee, going to the restroom, getting a snack, or getting in line for your flight that has already started boarding before you got there. The number five mistake that airline passengers are still making even myself is we pack too much. The common mistake is to pack an outfit for every single day or every single adventure or excursion for your trip without being versatile. If you follow my travel tips for packing and carry-on luggage only which is what I have had to do for 22 plus years so learn from my mistakes. You're going to pack travel outfits that are versatile but you're also going to only pack two pairs of shoes and you're going to make all of those outfits go with those shoes plus your airport outfit shoes that you have as well. The number six mistake is laced shoes. I have done it. I did it going to Colorado last week. If you do not have pre-check you normally would have to take off your shoes. Some airports have newer technology or there's less of a threat that trip so they're not doing that today but tomorrow they could make you. So you're going to avoid holding up the line by having your shoes already untied or your boots already unzipped and take it from me for what not to wear in the airplane. Do not wear pull-on boots that you have to pull off because you will totally lose your balance like I did several years ago. Here's a travel hack that will help you. As you're driving up to the airport you're going to untie your shoes and make them super loose so that you can slide your foot in and tie them back or either tie a knot in each end of your shoelaces and that way when you go through airport security your shoes have now become a slip-on shoe. And remember if you're over 75 years old you do not have to take off your shoes anymore. The number seven mistake is saying goodbye for way too long. I have been behind two different couples this past year where they have just been kissing and they're kissing their grandmother hugging their grandmother goodbye forever and ever and ever. And there are all these people who are trying to get to the airport on time who you're just slowing down the whole traffic line. Travel mistake number eight is ignoring check-in procedures. You're going to check in online or in the app and that's going to save you so much time. You will know ahead of time before you leave to go to the airport which terminal your airplane is leaving out of. So many airports since 2020 have made a new concourse or a new way through their airport and there might be a faster way. There are so many good tips that you learn also from your airlines app but your airport app also will give you a map and tell you where to get dropped off as well. You can also book or reserve parking through your airport app as well. One travel tip near holidays is that the TSA seems to have fewer and fewer employees working to check your IDs. In pre-check we had one TSA officer and you have people from pre-check then you have people from clear and then you have the crew who can come through the lines sometimes and make you stop and wait. Just be prepared for those lines too. That's all part of checking in. The number nine mistake is it maybe it's the older generation no offense is you're trying to save money by lugging around a suitcase that is way too heavy and not manageable for you which causes stress and so you do not check it. I am all for traveling with only carry-on luggage because I am in more control of my bag but we've also had to pack in carry-on suitcases when we flew standby all the time and that way we would have to wait and see if they have room for us and then they'd say no. Well if our bag if we had checked our bag and it was in the belly of the airplane we would make the airlines very angry if they would have to go retrieve our bag from the belly of the airplane. So we've always packed in carry-on luggage but if you're just trying to save a buck you might be missing the important travel tip and that is so many airlines so many credit card companies they give you a free checked bag allowance just if it would help you be less stressed in the airport. Yes they could lose your bag but since 2022 the airline have new like lost luggage tracking systems that they've installed since that fiasco a few Christmases ago. Here's the travel hack if you are worried about losing your luggage if you want to check a bag. Inside your personal item bag you're going to In my set they use two zippers no vacuum cleaner in that you're going to put your one shirt two pairs of undies and socks and compress it so that it's like a thin book and you're going to put that in the very base of your personal item bag so that if your luggage is lost then you will be okay. We all know that airlines are making airplanes with larger bins and you now do not put them in the overhead bin like that you stack them vertically or like on its side but here's the caveat to that some of the airplanes are not larger so they are having to check bags last minute because they've run out of space in the overhead bins. Here's where the travel tip comes in you are going to keep all essential medicine that you must take or any power banks or phone chargers in your personal item bag be it the tote bag or the backpack the power banks and phone chargers those have a battery in them that can catch on fire just by sitting somewhere so you do not want those in the belly of the airplane if they don't have room for your overhead bin and in the overhead bins for your carry-on luggage so that's why you need to have that and your medicine in your personal item bag always any flight. The next travel mistake is booking a connection flight or a stopover in another airport that is less than an hour and then you miss your flight you totally miss that flight and I'll talk about travel insurance in just a bit. This happened to me when I flew on United Airlines I bought a ticket I was looking for the ticket to Vermont and they had me connecting with less than 50 minutes to connect to another airplane that was going to get me to Vermont and that is almost impossible for domestic travel if you're flying do not book a flight where you only have 50 minutes to get to that next airplane and here are the reasons why. Number one it takes at least 10 minutes to get off of an airplane if you are behind the wing in that airplane and add in five passengers who take forever who are not being respectful of other people trying to get off the airplane you it could take 20 minutes just to get off of the airplane. Number two you are now having to change terminals to get to that other airplane which means you might have to take a tram or the little whatever people mover thing to get to that concourse so that would delay you even more. Number three an important travel tip for airline passengers in 2025 that is still going is that the airplanes are larger longer hold more people and so they are boarding 45 minutes that means you have to get in the airplane 45 minutes before your departure time and they also close the doors like 20 minutes prior to the flight so that the flight attendants can finish getting everything ready that they need to and so the gate agents shut the door and that means they will not open it back up so you have missed that connecting flight. One travel tip is we used travel insurance when we went to our river cruise in September and I it was the first time I've used it and paid for that thankfully we did not need it but I don't love it as much as this new kind that I got Visitors and I have a link down below the reason why I like it is you can choose if you want their travel insurance for missed flights which is a high possibility especially in the winter or with storms in the summer and then you can also choose if you just want medical insurance for medical emergencies that happen in a foreign country or while you're on a cruise ship you can also choose them like a plan that's right for you it's not like you only get one choice for that but you you can choose if you want insurance and you also have pre-existing conditions a lot of insurances will not insure you because you have pre-existing issues so just check that out if it would be helpful I do get that question a lot those are going to be linked in the first comment or the paragraph right underneath the video which are where all of my links always are as well if you are packing for hot or cold you've got to watch this video it helps you so much because you eliminate what you really do not need for hot or cold climates all right hope those help leave me a comment below and say hey if we've never met before thanks for your time