CHO Airport Blog

Frequent CHO Traveler Spotlight: Chris O’Neal

Tuesday, February 22

Chris O’Neal is a CHO frequent flyer who travels once a week for work. He’s an independent educational consultant, so sometimes he’s driving to a school in Virginia, other times, he’s flying from the Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport to a school board meeting in North Dakota.

Chris’s travels primarily keep him on the east coast and in the southern states. Once a year, however, Chris travels to far-flung places like Dubai, Jamaica, Malaysia, Mexico and other exotic destinations for education-related work.

“I always try to fly out of CHO when possible because it is very efficient. Parking is cheap, and no matter where I am in the parking lot, it’s still an easy walk,” Chris said. “The check in process is smooth, and being a small airport helps that, of course. But, the airport is still big enough to have everything I need - wifi, food, comfortable seating areas and an efficient and friendly staff.”

For future travels, Chris is hoping to go to Iceland and will be headed to Vancouver later this year, and back to Dubai in April. “I really would like to go to Brazil - that’s somewhere I’ve never been, but it really looks like my kind of place!” he said.

Chris O’Neal teaches classes at the University of Virginia in both traditional and online format and serves as a faculty associate for the George Lucas Educational Foundation; provides leadership professional development, content development, and consulting for ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education); serves as a leadership facilitator for SETDA (the U.S. State Educational Technology Directors Association), and conducts educational leadership institutes, workshops, and evaluations for organizations around the world.

If you’re a frequent CHO traveler, let us know!