BURSTING THE BUSINESS TRAVEL BUBBLE
Intercontinental business travel, with first-class tickets,
five-star hotels and transfers by taxi, is not most people's idea
of a hard life. But at the wrong time, and in the wrong place, it can
be. At the least, the resulting jet-lag will blur the brain at a
crucial time, and enough of it can be a major cause of executive
burn-out.
Behind the airlines' crafted images of almond-eyed beauties
service iced bubbly and Russian caviar there is the other side to
business travel.
It is a story of idle hours in hostile airports; sleepless nights
next to chattering bores; and whitening knuckles in turbulent storms.
But it seems that the more flights one makes, the greater the
chance that a really nasty experience will almost certainly occur, as
several leading financiers and businessmen explained to Euromoney.
It would be hard to match the ordeal...
