And the Harry Belafonte commercial they ran:
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I’m still pushing for the open-concept bathroom!

Now you’re just making things up. Did you this part of read my post?

Confirmation bias is where you begin with a premise that you want to be true, due to personal motivations, and then only seek out information that supports that premise. That is not the same thing as going through life, passively collecting data points on something you’re frequently involved with, but have no…

What you’re saying does not pass the smell test on multiple levels, so yes, I will disagree. Statistics, reports, polls, etc. are incorrect, biased, improperly wrought, and flat-out wrong so often that it’s pretty much become a social thread. For example, the idea that corporate industry travel groups would purport to…

I’m afraid at this point we’ll simply have to agree to disagree, as your conclusions are not borne out by the experience I’ve gleaned from the “breadth of my career” and from the careers of all the individuals who comprise my social universe. I don’t know where the stat came from that ~50% of business travel is…

I have worked in a number of different industries over my career—military, airlines, cellular telecom, defense, etc.—and of the literally hundreds of business trips I’ve taken, I can only recall one that was a non-essential no-shit boondoggle. I have numerous friends who have also traveled extensively for business…

My field is somewhat specialized, although not so much so in the very large world of defense contracting. But the point I was making is that the majority of business travel *is* essential for operations, sales, and functional work efforts, regardless of the level of specialty.

People who don’t work in travel intensive…

If this is sarcasm, I get ya ;-)

If not, then just understand that flight test operations simply don’t work like that.

Exactly, but I don’t think you’re right for the reason you think you are. The requirement for my flying a manned, chase aircraft is *because* my employer is flying unmanned drone aircraft in the national airspace.  This is an FAA mandate with force of law.

For meetings or conferences, potentially yes. For operations, functional, or sales efforts outside of your local area, teleconferencing is not an option. Example: When I provide flight operations support for activities at a remote test site, or fly the chase aircraft observing those operations, that cannot be…

I think both can be true at once—reduced salaries and incresed pricing.

Not sure where you’re getting that. In my line of work, defense contracting, it’s the Operations guys who do all the traveling. You know, Operations—the ones who do all the work of the company.

Yup. My company does the same thing for certain contracts requiring long haul overseas flights, typically to the Middle East.  At least we get to charge time for the traveling hours though, even if we’re sleeping in a lay-flat seat.

A constellation to you, if I could.

So, per my job function, when my employer requires to travel across the country to perform work at a remote site, you believe that I should be forced to pay out of pocket for the airfare? And if I refuse, I presumably get fired? Yeah, that’s not even close to legal, buddy. Further, no employers are paying for…

For meetings or conferences, potentially yes. For operations, functional, or sales efforts outside of your local area, teleconferencing is not an option. Example: When I provide flight operations support for activities at a remote test site, or fly the chase aircraft observing those operations, that cannot be…

I’ll expand on this—*MOST* frequent fliers are business travelers. As Mr. Party said, the tax won’t reduce their travel, it will increase their employers’ expenses. So what it will reduce is their salary, potential for raises, and even likelihood of being hired into a travel-required job in the first place.

It may not be a foregone certainty. I did a little digging for my own interest and while specific engine weights are a bit difficult to chase to ground, especially for the new LT2, it seems that the LT1 (6.2L OHV) is heavier than the Coyote (5.0L DOHC), which is heavier than the Voodoo (5.2L DOHC). They’re all within…

I’m willing to be the odd man out and say that the styling works for me, even if the back is a little tall. What doesn’t work, more importantly, is that it drives the wrong set of wheels and is missing a pedal—100% fatal flaws on any car wearing M badging (even if not technically an “M” car).