As I wrote, some people are not in a position to slow their travel.\u00a0 Sales people need to see customers, and indeed there is a different social dynamic that occurs in person versus remote.\u00a0 However.<\/p>\n
If one visits a site like flyertalk.com, where one sees the sheer mountain of complaints against the airlines, there must clearly be a better way for many people.\u00a0 There was a person at my company, for instance, who would commute to his customer in New York from the middle of England \u2013 on a weekly basis.\u00a0 Apart from what that costs in terms of dollars to our company and greenhouse gas emissions, it costs the individual too.\u00a0 Why didn’t the management hire someone in the New York area to do the job?\u00a0 Why didn’t they insist that he use TelePresence?<\/p>\n
Well, watch this space: video is really coming into its own.\u00a0 Cisco has led the way with TelePresence, and is doing its level best to bring people closer together through introduction of new products and services like \u016bmi<\/a>.\u00a0 If video can be made cheap enough, it hopefully means an end to at least some routine business travel.\u00a0 Better placement of resources would mean an end to much more.<\/p>\n But beyond that, all of these people who complain about business travel on that web site look at it as if there is nothing they can do about it.\u00a0 Really- to read someone who travels over 100,000 miles a year and took the time to complain leads me to ask the question I asked myself when I found myself miserably traveling: why travel if it is so miserable?\u00a0 How about not<\/strong> traveling?\u00a0 Or at least not flying?\u00a0 Or at least reducing the amount you fly?\u00a0 You’ll make yourself happier, spend less money, and reduce carbon emissions.<\/p>\n Here’s one reason not <\/strong>to stop flying: sending a message to the airlines.\u00a0 They don’t care.\u00a0 Not only don’t they care, but they’ve learned how to make money no matter what passenger demand they have, through the ability to easily adjust their fleet size, furlough employees, and cancel flights.\u00a0 Load factor is the only thing they care about.\u00a0 You can’t affect it.<\/p>\n By the way, people might think I find the airline industry uninteresting.\u00a0 I don’t.\u00a0 I think it’s fascinating, how planes are designed, how they’ve learned to make money in the worst of times, and how they’ve consolidated themselves into an oligopoly.\u00a0 But I’ll watch from a distance as best I can, thank you very much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As I wrote, some people are not in a position to slow their travel.\u00a0 Sales people need to see customers, and indeed there is a different social dynamic that occurs in person versus remote.\u00a0 However. If one visits a site like flyertalk.com, where one sees the sheer mountain of complaints against the airlines, there must … Continue reading “Frequent Traveller Nightmare Part 2: Traveller heal thyself”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,17],"tags":[501,381,382,137],"class_list":["post-1137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airlines","category-economics","tag-airlines","tag-flying","tag-misery","tag-tsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1139,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions\/1139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}