I no longer allow any employee to fly. If remote access to a terminal or site can fix it - no need to go.
I only fly to see my children at college and instead of 4 times a year - cut to one.
I refuse to fly for two simple reasons:
1. over 25% tax on your movement
2. customer is treated like crap by system.
I do not work my butt off and try my best to be treated as I was in my last flight. Life is too short to do that.
I quit flying 30 yrs ago, and haven’t looked back, and I left a job that required representing the corporation.
Now I just take a little more time, use a comfortable car, driver, train, boat, ship, or anything, but NOT an airplane.....I have never looked back, and my life is so much better.
I was on two different planes back then, that made my decision easy, one that missed the runway, and the pilot said “we would circle around, and try it again”. Obviously we made it, but it wasn’t my stop, and I had to go on with that moron to my destination. Then on another flight the drunk pilot was handing out drinks, because we had run into turbulation, and everyone missed their cocktails....HA.
I had just spent several days trying to keep a wandering President of the Board of Directors, from embarrassing all of us. Not my idea of fun. I changed careers, and all it took was adding a little more education.
This bunch of zeros are not making flight safer, but more dangerous. Travel by car with at least one other driver, and enjoy the music, conversation, quiet, or whatever....no stranded on tarmacs, no bad food, no terrorists, unless they try to get in your car, and you can protect yourself in your own vehicle.
It is the journey for me, and not just the destination. I can stop to see things that interest me, and I can have two or three great trips a year vs ten terrible ones, that depend on other unprofessional wackos, who make grandma a priority to search, and don’t the jhadist.
You made the right decision about not letting employees waste money on hotels, food and planes....with all the online meeting forums, it is just common sense.
Today I saw a scroll on Fox News that said, “since AZ law was announced, over 100K hispanics have left AZ, for sanctuary cities......sounds like success to me, I doubt they took a plane.