{"id":20757,"date":"2012-11-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/global2020prd.wpengine.com\/insights\/business-travel-all-aboard\/"},"modified":"2020-03-21T08:24:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T08:24:33","slug":"business-travel-all-aboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/insights\/business-travel-all-aboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Business travel: all aboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-8358\" title=\"boarding pass\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/boarding-pass-330x218.jpg\" width=\"231\" height=\"153\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In last week&#8217;s travel post for <a title=\"Global workers information\" href=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/global-working-training\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">global workers<\/a> who travel a lot for business, Ten Tips for Surviving Airports, we promised to look at tips for specific airports this week. But logistics have dictated that particular post goes up next week. (And we&#8217;ll be posting on a Thursday from here on in to fit with the #TravelThursday discussions on a Thursday happening in various social spaces.) So this week, we are, instead, looking at boarding!<\/p>\n<p>When we asked for business travel tips to share with other global workers, <a title=\"T.H. Ong\" href=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/about-us\/key-consultants\/thong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TH Ong<\/a> suggested that you always line up for boarding first, &#8220;if there&#8217;s such a thing as lining up&#8221;. \u00a0Which lead us to the boarding gate debate.\u00a0Being first in line &#8211; and at all times remaining face forward &#8211; will give you the calm of flying on your personal aircraft, suggests Ong.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"John Bland\" href=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/about-us\/key-consultants\/john-bland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Bland,<\/a> by contrast, suggests waiting and boarding last. Personally, I&#8217;m with John &#8211; queueing&#8217;s no fun, your seat&#8217;s not going to run away, and you won&#8217;t cause a delay.<\/p>\n<p>But if you&#8217;ve taken the &#8216;<a title=\"Travelling light debate\" href=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/blog\/global-working-travelling-light\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">carry all your luggage on board with you<\/a>&#8216; approach, does overhead locker space dictate that it&#8217;s a necessity to board earlier?<\/p>\n<p>And what about flights with unallocated seating?<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>What&#8217;s your travel experience\/preference? You can still have your say on our seat preference survey:\u00a0aisle, middle or window seat? (And why?)<br \/>\n<code><a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/s\/75WWC2L\">Click here to take survey<\/a><\/code><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Next Week<\/h2>\n<p>Next week, as well as the airport tips, we&#8217;ll be offering six tips for a better inflight experience &#8211; and ten from Tony Poots, whose idea of a good flight is beautifully chilled!<\/p>\n<p><code><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"https:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lho3oOJbzy0?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"560\" height=\"315\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lho3oOJbzy0?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/code><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In last week&#8217;s travel post for global workers who travel a lot for business, Ten Tips for Surviving Airports, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","type-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.6 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - 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