About FrequentFlyerTech

FrequentFlyerTech exists because buying the boring parts of a trip is harder than it should be.

Booking the flight is easy. Then you need data that works when you land, a way to spend money without losing 3% to fees you can’t see, something that gets your banking app working from a foreign IP, and cover for the day something goes properly wrong. Four decisions, all of them dull, all of them annoying to get wrong, and all of them buried under comparison sites that rank whoever pays most.

Who runs it

Ignas Simkus

Founder & editor of FrequentFlyerTech

I’m Ignas, a Lithuanian expat living in Germany, and this is my site; every article on it carries my byline. I’ve spent my whole career in technology, half of it inside one of the world’s leading VPN providers, and for the past five years I’ve worked remotely, close to half of each year away: transatlantic work trips, long winter stretches in Southern Europe and Asia, the occasional properly exotic detour.

Two irritations started it. I’ve been sold a “tourist internet package” that barely worked, and I’ve spent enough years around network security to know exactly what an open hotel network does with your traffic. Everything here grew out of the shortlist those two produced: the tools I actually carry, and why.

The four categories are not equal, and I won’t pretend they are. VPNs are my professional home. eSIMs are a daily dependency; I don’t board a plane without one. Travel money I know as a power user who has churned through more accounts than I care to admit. Insurance I buy the way you probably do: occasionally, when the itinerary earns it, reading the exclusions first.

Lithuanian, based in Germany
Half a career inside the VPN industry
On the road close to half of each year
Five years fully remote

A small team helps with research and spot-tests, but every recommendation gets filtered through one question: would I hand you this at the airport? The full method is public in how we test, and everything published under my name is on my author page.

What we do

We cover four categories (eSIM, VPN, travel money, and insurance) and try to answer one question per page: which of these should you actually buy, and why.

That means being specific about trade-offs rather than declaring winners. The best travel eSIM genuinely depends on which local carrier a provider resells in your destination. The best VPN depends on whether you want streaming, privacy, or access in a country that filters the internet. A page that flattens those into a single ranking looks more decisive and helps you less.

How we work

We’re research-led. Most of what you read here comes from primary sources: carrier coverage maps, fee schedules, policy wordings, regulator pages. We read them properly and translate them into something you can act on quickly. Where hands-on testing changes the answer, we test, and we label it clearly when we have.

What we don’t do is present research as first-hand experience. If we read something off a provider’s own page, we say so and link it. If we ran it ourselves, we say when and where. The full standard is set out in how we test, including the parts that aren’t flattering.

How we pay for it

Affiliate commissions. If you buy through our links we earn a commission at no extra cost to you, and it doesn’t change what we recommend or the order things appear in. The longer version, including the incentives worth knowing about, is in our affiliate disclosure.

Where to start

If you’re planning a trip and want the short version, our travel tech stack is the shortlist across all four categories. Otherwise, go straight to the category you need:

Travel eSIMs: data that works when you land
Travel VPNs: getting your own services working from abroad
Travel money: cards, fees, and exchange rates
Travel insurance: what the cover is really for

Get in touch

Corrections are welcome, particularly on numbers. Prices and policies change, and we’d rather hear about it quickly. Contact us here. If you want to know who you’re writing to, it’s me.