air travel
3 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement May 30, 2017 by Rory Sutherland · across every show →
Everything said about air travel, oldest first
May 30, 2017
Sutherland: Video conferencing would have sold better framed as executive phone calls
“Now, if you'd made video conferencing the way that chief executives made phone calls, I think you could have sold it much, much more. You could have made it the, you know something aspirational rather than you know, a poor as that substitute for something bett…”
May 30, 2017
Sutherland: Business air travel primarily serves as costly signaling to clients
“A large part of the reason for air travel is not that you couldn't do what you do in a phone call. It signals through both the cost of the tickets and the effort required to make the journey the importance of a client's business.”
Mar 13, 2020 neutral
International travel will require real-time biological screening before boarding
“Now that's going to go to real time, meaning, you know, within a day or an hour before you get on the flight, you know, imagine a next generation TSA that was actually competent, you know, in, in, in countries around the world, which Needs your biological info…”