Originally Posted by
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It would be interesting to hear from former FF - due to Covid. Zoom/Team/etc killed 90% of internal - especially international travel. This is the case at least within the tech industry.
I was thinking about this at BOS this week. It was busy, crazy busy. Precheck line extending past the queue kinda busy. Judging by the passenger mix and overly loud phone calls, mostly business travelers. I'm sure a significant amount of business travel is permanently lost to zoom and such, but I'm not sure that loss is as big as many others here believe. Ultimately, the company willing to invest in travel to meet in person will still have a competitive advantage over the one that schedules a zoom meeting.
That's an outsiders view as my biz travel is a bit different. I'm a nurse. I fly sick and injured people around in a tiny little company owned plane. My airline mileage is usually to meet my plane somewhere in North America, so nothing special. A few times a year there'll be a last minute TATL or TPAC J trip do transport a patient who isn't sick enough for or whose insurance is too cheap to pay for an air ambulance transport. Those are nice little mileage bumps, but not enough to get above middle status on most carriers. I do get about 200 hotel nights a year though, so lifetime Diamond at Hilton and Lifetime Plat at Marriott.