http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/18/death-by-pinstripes-airlines-lose-their-best-clients/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:16:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/18/death-by-pinstripes-airlines-lose-their-best-clients/#comment-1062 lmxly Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-1062 Why oh why can we not see this as a major gain for the planet - and proably not a major loss for business, since it will encourage the use of video conferencing which may well outlast the GFC and prove to be a more efficeint way of doing business, both cost, energy and people-wise. Let's have a bit of joined-up thinking here! The financial crisis and the envirinmental crisis have the same cause - over consumption and excess credit - and the latter is far potentially more serious. So any move that reduces it , whatever its impact on the financial crisis, must be seen as a BENEFIT. Why oh why can we not see this as a major gain for the planet - and proably not a major loss for business, since it will encourage the use of video conferencing which may well outlast the GFC and prove to be a more efficeint way of doing business, both cost, energy and people-wise. Let’s have a bit of joined-up thinking here! The financial crisis and the envirinmental crisis have the same cause - over consumption and excess credit - and the latter is far potentially more serious. So any move that reduces it , whatever its impact on the financial crisis, must be seen as a BENEFIT.

]]> http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/18/death-by-pinstripes-airlines-lose-their-best-clients/#comment-1063 jen Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-1063 While it's bad that people are losing their jobs... isn't this a good thing - less pointless flights for meetings that could be conducted over the phone or by email, less posturing by supposed "high fliers", burning fossil fuels for no good reason. <br />But it's going to take a reshaping of the world and national economies - we're going to have to spend money somehow, according to the economists. Just not on flights, obviously. <br />Come the revolution sister... Oh, right, the revolution is here. Sack the CEOs, or pay them a damn sight less. And stop them taking so many flights. While it’s bad that people are losing their jobs… isn’t this a good thing - less pointless flights for meetings that could be conducted over the phone or by email, less posturing by supposed “high fliers”, burning fossil fuels for no good reason.
But it’s going to take a reshaping of the world and national economies - we’re going to have to spend money somehow, according to the economists. Just not on flights, obviously.
Come the revolution sister… Oh, right, the revolution is here. Sack the CEOs, or pay them a damn sight less. And stop them taking so many flights.

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