Originally Posted by
Swampz64
A friend owns several international businesses, one of which has 4 board meetings a year across the globe, each meeting costs around $100k excluding the salaries of the directors. They’ve held a zoom board meeting during the shutdown and he sees no reason why 3 of the 4 meetings each year cannot be done remotely, they save $300k and staff are not spending two days per meeting travelling.
I think there will be tens of thousands of businesses changing their practises and it will have a massive impact on airlines, airports and business centric hotels around the world going forward.
BA may want to bring out this ad from the past or an updated one:
However I agree to the extent that people that would normally be reluctant to use new technology are having to use it and finding if they put their minds to it, it's not that hard. But there still will be times when face to face meetings are important to build relationships and seal deals. The business cases will need to be justified rather just going on a jolly. It's that market the BA will need to target for the Club business. Alternatively they will need to make a bigger effort on Traveller as you can't Zoom a holiday for 2 weeks in the sun somewhere.