What do you do for work that makes you a frequent flyer?
 

Sorta taking a leaf from the Reddit book, thought it may be cool to see what jobs everyone does that makes them such a frequent flyer.
I'll start off, I work in sports broadcasting!

My travel is unrelated to work, all personal.
Having said that my work is 100% portable, I have the most amazing boss (as he looks in the mirror) so work which funds personal travel can come with me.

As a parent of five, three of whom are very active in sports, one being junior (U20) national level in Canada, I thank you for your work in promoting sports.

For me my travel for work peaked when I was working in tech hardware -- I'd end up doing ~3 trips to Japan and ~4 to Europe each year from SFO (used to be a regular NZ1/2 flyer! Very sad to see that route go).

These days though it's all personal travel -- heading back to NZ to visit family twice a year is enough to keep my Elite (flying elsewhere I try and avoid United and instead fly Delta)

Product in the tech industry. An early stint in big tech had me doing a lot of longhaul and TT flights ex-NZ which introduced me to the FF world.

These days, different country and at a scale-up company that is based in a single location means no corporate flying. So now just looking for whoever has the cheapest beds in the sky.

When AA start flying here, do you think you night make the switch?

I was briefly tempted by the upcoming Delta flight but problem is none of these new routes are year-round (and one of my trips is usually in July).

I'm also (perhaps irrationally) holding out with NZ in case they do a lifetime status tier (since I think that was mentioned in a survey a while back)

I work as a sports official. I end up taking 6-8 trips a year for that and 2-3 for my day job within the trucking industry.

For 12 years I worked as a health insurance executive and uncovered surprising skills in sales, such that within a few months I was traveling 80% to support sales, almost all domestic. Many Fortune 500 companies buying health insurance for their employees actually wanted to be sure that the person responsible for decisions regarding authorization of "appropriate" medical care was not someone too stupid to spell HMO.

It was great not having to head for the hospital randomly at 0-dark-thirty but eventually I was tired of flying cross country every week. Long days when the HQ were on the east coast (conference calls at 9 am ET but 6 am PT), then taking clients out to dinner when I was working on the west coast. I returned to my "hobby" of primary care.

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A topic that comes up from time to time, including

• https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/brit...-ba-fters.html 1400 posts
• https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trav...ed-2014-a.html 483 posts
• https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/delt...ch-travel.html 163 posts

Are other threads on this topic.

I work as an independent travel broker. It’s hard to say how much of my travel is for work as I often try to hybridise my trips to blend work and leisure.

I’ve split my career between working on the investing side of venture capital, and on the operating side as a leader.

Pre-pandemic I had a bit of a travel routine (China usually Spring and Fall, Alaska May and October, Europe in summer, and then trips at the same conus destinations.

Travel is starting to pick up again, but honestly we can do so much with Zoom it is easier on the body to do fewer longer trips—-plus costs have increased noticeably, so the budget is tighter.

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.