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I recently spent 3 days in Tokyo. It was a very hot 3 days in July 2023, while Tokyo was in the grip of a heatwave, with daytime temperatures as high as 37 degrees C. Still it was great to be back in Japan, which I last visited before the pandemic.
I travel less for work these days. One lasting effect of the pandemic is that it is now perfectly acceptable to do meetings with senior executives via video. Less of a need to travel for meetings. But the reality is that to work or do business with someone, you do need that face to face interaction, so while I travel less, the occasional trip is still necessary.
With so few trips, it is even more important for me to make each flight experience to count. While work schedule is of course top priority, as well as paying a reasonable ticket price, within those parameters I will make it a point to pick and choose flights which broaden my experience of equipment types, airlines and classes of travel. Life would be boring, otherwise!
My current employer has a travel policy which allows for premium economy for flights over 7 hours. My previous employer's policy was 8 hours and above. What a difference an hour makes! WIth a 7 hour cut-off, I am now able to travel to Japan and Australia in Premium. Great! No plans to change my handle to peyfler yet...but it does make trip planning a little more exciting...
I flew there and back on ANA's 787-9 Dreamliner, in Premium Economy. While I had flown ANA before in Y, this was my first time in PEY. It would be interesting to see how ANA's PEY product compared to SQ's.
Of course, while there, I ate several interesting meals, at the kind of places only locals would know about, and also headed out for a run (despite the heat!).
I travel less for work these days. One lasting effect of the pandemic is that it is now perfectly acceptable to do meetings with senior executives via video. Less of a need to travel for meetings. But the reality is that to work or do business with someone, you do need that face to face interaction, so while I travel less, the occasional trip is still necessary.
With so few trips, it is even more important for me to make each flight experience to count. While work schedule is of course top priority, as well as paying a reasonable ticket price, within those parameters I will make it a point to pick and choose flights which broaden my experience of equipment types, airlines and classes of travel. Life would be boring, otherwise!
My current employer has a travel policy which allows for premium economy for flights over 7 hours. My previous employer's policy was 8 hours and above. What a difference an hour makes! WIth a 7 hour cut-off, I am now able to travel to Japan and Australia in Premium. Great! No plans to change my handle to peyfler yet...but it does make trip planning a little more exciting...
I flew there and back on ANA's 787-9 Dreamliner, in Premium Economy. While I had flown ANA before in Y, this was my first time in PEY. It would be interesting to see how ANA's PEY product compared to SQ's.
Of course, while there, I ate several interesting meals, at the kind of places only locals would know about, and also headed out for a run (despite the heat!).
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