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[–] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Many short distance flights are business related but as someone who was working in an international corporation I can tell you there's plenty of business monkeys who fly simply for the prestige of it. They fly to attend meetings that could've been an email or a call just so they can pretend they're hot shit.

Massively disappointing.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I like getting the train. First class is often similar or cheaper than the flight, it's better for the environment, it's easy to get up and walk around, and you get 4 hours of work done (instead of 2 hours of queuing, 1 hour of flying, 1 hour of queuing/waiting).
    I find companies are as happy to pay a train fair as they are a flight.

    And airports commonly need trains/busses/taxis to get to/from anyway.
    I'd rather arrive in the city center than the outskirts

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I must admit, when I first started working after uni, I thought I was hot shit for flying domestically (Hamburg<>Munich). Even had my BlackBerry set to loud, so people know I don't belong to the tourist shmucks. God fucking damn it, I'm cringing so hard at the memories. At least I was away for the entire week and not just a single meeting.

    Traveling via ICE is so, sooo much better! I do miss the BlackBerry though. The iPhone keyboard is complete garbage in comparison. I keep the phone silent nowadays. Man, what a cringelord I was back then.

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