Bob Noel wrote
If you don't like airline travel then by all means find another way.

believe me, I'd love to convince some people to use the phone
or VTC to conduct meetings rather to always thinking the meetings
have to be face-to-face.

Interestingly, my company is moving over to almost exclusive reliance
on phone and VTC. It's cheaper than flying, there's no loss of
productivity (other than the meeting itself), and it doesn't **** off
the employees the way being shipped around the country by cut-rate
airlines does.

I haven't set foot on an airliner for any reason in over a year.

Michael