Scott McCartney

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WSJ Your Money Briefing · How Air Travel Has Changed Over the Years, For Better or Worse · 30 Dec 2021 podcast

Don't pick the flight that arrives right before your meeting or event and then be furious because you missed it.

You have to give yourself cushion so that when bad things happen, you're prepared.

I do think we are entering into an era of fewer flights on larger airplanes, and that's going to have a lot of implications for air service.

I think small towns are going to have a harder time connecting to the world because they just can't fill larger airplanes.

I think business travelers will find the hourly service that we relied on before the pandemic between many cities difficult.

That's just not going to be there.

It may be every other hour with a larger airplane.

It's a combination of labor shortages, particularly pilots.

There is a pilot shortage.

It's going to get worse.

And so airlines will take the pilots they have and they want to maximize the number of people they can move.

So those pilots will fly bigger airplanes and airlines will do away with the smallest airplanes.

Climate change is part of this pressure as well.

A lot of companies that buy a lot of business travel tickets, they want to reduce their environmental impact.

And the easiest way to do that is to reduce travel.

I think business travel is under pressure as it is because of the pandemic and technology.

And I do think we're going to see reduced business travel numbers.

in the future.

And that has huge implications for airlines because they've built their business model around business travel.

But with airlines themselves under pressure to reduce the carbon they put into the atmosphere, I think the thing they're going to have to do is fewer flights with bigger airplanes.

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