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The Internet’s Biggest Travel Nerd Shares Pointers on Points
Gary Leff has been writing his blog on business travel for 23 years. WIRED asked him to share his most time-tested business travel tips.
He has penned the blog View from the Wing for 23 years while maintaining a full-time career as a chief financial officer at a university research center. Speaking with Leff gives the impression of a human spreadsheet with a brain full of open tabs, continuously performing a complex calculus to extract maximum value from every flight, hotel stay, and credit card purchase. When I lived in Washington, DC, in 2002, a bunch of people I knew were starting political blogs, but I didn't feel like I had something unique to say that nobody was saying in that space.
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