BoardingArea has long believed in balance: life, family, work, side hustles, and blogging.

The intent of the BoardingArea Sabbatical program is to provide margin—time that is extra and free from obligation. We surely understand that life changes, work changes, commitments change and even interests change. Blogging is often an interest and one that can and does require the guidance of effort. Today blogging has many competitors to express your thoughts and ideas about travel + miles + points. Easy alternatives such as Facebook, Twitter, and even LinkedIn are good alternatives with far less stress and focus requirements. So it’s quite natural to deserve, want, and even need a break.

To keep BoardingArea Network with fresh and unique content, we recommend that our bloggers post regularly, please see Best Practices Guidelines: Posting. If the blogger is unable to meet the guidelines, a blogger is placed on a sabbatical.
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After 45 days if there are no posts, the blog will be placed on sabbatical.

While on sabbatical:

It is up to the blogger as to when this sabbatical will end, and they must notify BoardingArea Network when they are ready to start blogging again.

We understand that life can get crazy and encourage you to communicate with us to help you. Whether you are on vacation for several weeks, personal or have professional commitments, please let us know and we will be happy to work with you. And rest assured that many of our bloggers have been or are currently on sabbatical. Everyone else does it, and so can you!

Please note, for those who repeatedly go on sabbatical, we will schedule a conversation to reevaluate our relationship to best fit both parties' needs.

This can happen for any number of reasons such as a job change in which a new employer strictly forbids the employee to blog (this could be because of the industry or because of implied personal views not being separated), a sudden change in time available such as a new job or in personal relationships and even because of burnout. No negatives here. These are typically directed upon notice by the blogger.

Although this can at times be confused with ‘blogging-lite’, it’s a sporadic period in which consistent content is not being posted. Our general rule for this is to delist a blog from the “Our Bloggers” page when a blog has no consistent content for a period between 21-60 days. Google notices readers notice and BoardingArea notices. Abandoned content in a public view is never a positive signal of the past glory and effort of a blogger so BoardingArea in the best interest of a blog will move a blog to rest when it determines there appears the blogger has some changes going on.

In both situations, BoardingArea is pleased to continue to host the blog at no cost as a measure of salute and respect for the efforts that went into the blog. As well, should there be an occasion when the blogger has a newly defined interest in picking up where the blog left off with consistency in the future, then we’re only too happy to revive the blog and its listing in the BoardingArea index.

If instead of a sabbatical, you are interested in selling your blog, we have an article for that too.