glad you werent! My point is what the main trigger for purchases is overall, not personal triggers of individual travellers. my experience in the corporate market is that a lot of CE travel is involuntary and based on availability and short lead in times, as much as a travel policy or personal preference. or at least requested flexibility with availibility as an additional factor. I cannot back this up with stats of course so that is the glaring hole in my argument. I would also not use a forum where the majority f users are more travel savvy as nailed on representative or indicative of the main drivers for CE bookings.

I am not discounting those other factors cited at all though, far from it.