Luxury Travel

Distinguished Travel Hacker: How to Always Pick the Right Seat on a Plane

Travel superagent Todd Bliwise has been adventuring on his own since he was 9, and logged more than a million airline miles. He’s learned some key things along the way.

Todd Bliwise poses above Machu Picchu.

Source: Todd Bliwise

At Bloomberg Pursuits, we love to travel. And we always want to make sure we’re doing it right. So we’re talking to globe-trotters in all of our luxury fields—food, wine, fashion, cars, real estate—to learn about their high-end hacks, tips, and off-the-wall experiences. These are the Distinguished Travel Hackers.

Todd Bliwise is the owner and founder of An Avenue Apart. The jet-setting travel agent logs between 200,000 and 300,000 miles in the air every year—or, as Bliwise puts it, “actual butt-seat miles, not qualification miles”—and specializes in ultra-high-end experiences. He lives in New York, though it’s more apt to call an airplane his home.