Originally Posted by
JSCL
There will be an uptick, yes. But most of these meetings are ‘localised’ from experience where I’ve seen anything transition to video conferencing. I.e. if you have multiple parties across London and Birmingham, why bother travelling when we can do it virtually?
But where there’s other jurisdictions involved, air travel will still be buoyant and I expect that for the UK>Europe air travel for business will pick up as soon as is practically possible.
There is an element of why do you need to travel BUT as someone who has WFH in 1990's and on occasions since then the physical meeting can not be superceeded by the video one. As indicated we are social animals and meeting and interacting with someone is just way better than the 2 dimensional screen one.
It is also easier having met not just the people on the screen but team around them that you get a sense of whether things really working or not V having a screen actor good at telling you what you need to hear.