In The Know - Short's January 2025 News

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SHORT'S TRAVEL NEWS

REMINDER - Keep Your Travel Profile Updated for Seamless Bookings

To ensure a smooth travel booking experience, it’s essential to keep your profile in the Short’s Travel Portal up to date. Completing your profile—including adding a form of payment—will help avoid delays and disruptions.

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Steps to update your profile: How to guide

1. Log in to your Short’s Travel Portal.

2. Navigate to the My Profile section.

3. Complete or update all required fields, including:

   • First, middle, and last name (ensure they match your government-issued ID to avoid travel disruptions)

   • Cell Phone Number

   • Date of Birth

   • Gender

   • Email Address

   • Sport or Department

   • Add Your Form of Payment

Why it matters:

• Taking a few minutes now to update your profile ensures quicker, smoother, and more efficient travel arrangements in the future.

• Hotels require a credit card guarantee to confirm bookings.

• Many accounts restrict the use of a company card for hotel guarantees, so saving your personal credit card information helps to quickly secure your reservation, reducing the chances of availability issues or rate increases.
  

New Deem is Now Live 

As of January 8, 2025, users will now land on the New Deem platform by default, with the option to toggle back to Classic Deem, if needed. Please note that certain features, such as booking for multiple passengers and train travel, remain exclusive to Classic Deem.

To help you and your travelers navigate the New Deem platform with ease, we encourage you to explore our training resources, including helpful video tutorials, available here. We appreciate your continued trust in Short's for your travel needs!

INDUSTRY NEWS

Why Are Airlines Struggling to Keep Up With Soaring Demand?

Global aviation markets are experiencing robust demand, with the North Atlantic and Europe among the star performers. Asia was slower in recovering from the pandemic slump but is now moving in the right direction.

This demand is filling planes and boosting profitability, but another key factor is driving buoyant results – constrained capacity. 

For the most part, this has not been through airline choice but due to a series of supply chain and technical challenges. As 2025 gains momentum, what does this mean for the airline industry and is the situation likely to improve?

Under normal circumstances, airlines plan timetables more than a year in advance. The general objective is for tickets to be on sale from 12 months before departure. There is always flexibility to make changes, additions, and deletions closer in, but flights are more likely to perform better with sufficient lead time to promote and build up bookings...read more

REAL ID Deadline

Beginning May 7, 2025, a REAL ID-compliant license or an acceptable alternative will be required for domestic air travel and access to federal facilities. Travelers without the proper ID will not be permitted to pass through security checkpoints after this date.

To ensure that your student athletes, staff, and associated personnel have the necessary identification for future travel, please consider the following steps..read more

If you like the current Southwest Airlines boarding process, you're in luck

Southwest Airlines is getting set to completely overhaul its seating setup, with its first-ever assigned and extra-legroom seats officially launching next year. Even after the changes, though, passengers will still get an individual boarding number at check-in, the airline tells TPG. And, just as they do today, passengers will continue to line up at the gate, single-file, along its signature boarding area posts.

All things considered, Southwest's future boarding process will look remarkably similar to the one-of-a-kind setup used today — a process executives last year said they hoped to use as a blueprint even as the airline shifts to assigned seating...read more

American Airlines' plan for 2025: New biz-class suites, more lounges and improved Wi-Fi 

Travelers have a lot to look forward to from American Airlines in 2025: New business-class suites, premium lounges and satellite Wi-Fi are coming, as well as a full recovery of its Chicago and Philadelphia hubs.

Those are just a few items that American CEO Robert Isom and other executives outlined during the airline's fourth-quarter earnings call Thursday. The outlook is mostly bright with, as Isom put it, "robust demand across the board" for air travel...read more

TRAVEL TIPS

6 Ways to Make Travel Less Stressful in 2025

There's nothing like airport chaos or passport emergencies to ruin a vacation—which is why stress free travel is one of our New Year's resolutions for 2025. Travel can be thrilling, eye-opening, and restorative—but let’s face it, actually getting to your destination leaves plenty of room for error. Everything from shelling out on expensive airfares, to navigating crowded airports and trying to stay on top of travel documents like passports and compliant Real IDs can be enough to keep even the most passionate nomads at home.

But with a little planning ahead, you can set yourself up for a smoother ride in 2025. By completing a handful of simple tasks at the start of the new year, you can ensure you’ll be able to better afford your trips, maximize your precious points and miles, and decrease security and customs wait times. Below, we've rounded up six ways you can get ahead on your to-do's for stress free travel (your future self will thank you)...read more