Originally Posted by
BAeuro
Lounges will start to open, as really they aren’t that different to restaurants/cafes, and restaurants aren’t going to stay closed until 2021.
Not necessarily as we know them though. The buffets will surely have to go, with all food either served by staff or individually wrapped. And the communal bottles of booze will presumably have to be replaced with miniatures or a manned bar.
By no means insurmountable problems but a very different experience nonetheless.
Originally Posted by
BAeuro
I’ve read Walsh’s comments after 9/11 and the 2008 crisis and he said how business travel would shrink and everyone predicted it wouldn’t come back - but it did!
Yes, but in 2008/9 cheap, reliable video conferencing and mass home-working weren’t an option for most businesses. They are now and some very large companies (eg Barclays) have already said it’s likely that the way they work has changed for good.