TSA numbers above 100k seven days in row
06-14-2020, 07:24 AM
#721
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Zoom sucks and is a poor replacement for face-to-face business travel.
"They may call me a dreamer" but I do not see it as a wholesale replacement for a significant majority of reasons people travel for business. Not all meetings are a PowerPoint presentation and there's a powerful interpersonal connection between a client and a business owner/leader/representative meeting face-to-face.
UPS is using Zoom because we're still taking delivery of more than a dozen growth airframes this year and NEED to keep hiring to staff those jets and cover retirements running 2-3x mandatory...not because they *want* to utilize videoconferencing to interview pilots. There's a reason the company has maintained a face-to-face interview with sim evaluation all this time and I suspect HR will ditch Zoom just as soon as possible.
Death knells for business travel are being rung FAR too early here...
"They may call me a dreamer" but I do not see it as a wholesale replacement for a significant majority of reasons people travel for business. Not all meetings are a PowerPoint presentation and there's a powerful interpersonal connection between a client and a business owner/leader/representative meeting face-to-face.
UPS is using Zoom because we're still taking delivery of more than a dozen growth airframes this year and NEED to keep hiring to staff those jets and cover retirements running 2-3x mandatory...not because they *want* to utilize videoconferencing to interview pilots. There's a reason the company has maintained a face-to-face interview with sim evaluation all this time and I suspect HR will ditch Zoom just as soon as possible.
Death knells for business travel are being rung FAR too early here...
A few organizations (whose managers are more visionary than grounded in human-nature reality) might give it whirl, but eventually market forces will re-calibrate those.
06-15-2020, 04:23 AM
#722
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6/12: 519,304 19.04%
6/13: 437,119 18.85%
6/14: 544,046 20.59%
6/13: 437,119 18.85%
6/14: 544,046 20.59%
06-15-2020, 05:12 AM
#724
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06-15-2020, 05:14 AM
#725
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06-15-2020, 09:22 AM
#727
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These numbers very promising. It’s well within reason to think we could hit a million by the end of July.
06-15-2020, 10:40 AM
#729
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My prognostication is 1M pax between 5-12 July.
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