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Travel costs

Will you want virtual meetings .. only?

Posted by: JoanEisenstodt in Travel costs, Hotel on Apr 22, 2008

Today I participated as a trainer in Virtualis in SecondLife. Virtualis is a cool new area for virtual meetings and I even have my own Eisenstodt Conference & Community Center.

With voices enabled, and avatars of all kinds, it was pretty neat.

And when I saw today that all the airlines are talking about raising fares - because they have to (see this headline from USAToday on line: >>Delta CEO:

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Will anyone be able to afford to attend meetings?

Posted by: JoanEisenstodt in Travel costs, Travel Arrangements, Meetings, Conventions, Conferences on Apr 21, 2008

No really - I just made two airline reservations - one for August and one for January. The cost for each, with a Saturday night stay (it's baaaaaack) was far more than I've paid before.

Ok.. sure: I fly a few particular carriers bec. I upgrade and maybe there were cheaper fares somewhere but I'm not alone in wanting some comfort for long flights. And then one of these carriers is being talked

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"Looks like a great meeting; sorry I can't get there."

Posted by: JoanEisenstodt in Travel costs, Travel Arrangements, Speakers, Meetings, Conventions on Apr 07, 2008

THIS is what I fear we are going to hear more and more. With the number of airlines that folded in the last few days, with the planes that were out of service for safety checks (something I see now as ongoing) and with capacity cut on all airlines (see this about USAirways http://charlotte.bizjournals.com/charlotte/stories/2008/04/07/daily1.html?b=1207540800^1616337&ana=e_abd) and gas prices

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