Originally Posted by bocastephen

This is so very true - I’ve been warning about a long term transition away from business travel, but the virus has made the shift happen in weeks instead of years. Business travel as we knew it is finished at this point and it will never come back to its prior levels. Unless someone needs to install or build a product at a customer site or deal with a business-saving emergency, virtual meetings are now here to stay and while planes will eventually fill again, the ratio of higher margin business travel to lower margin discretionary travel will shift dramatically and depress airline revenues pretty much permanently going forward.