Comments on: Personal, Business, and Government Travel http://www.douglasgourlay.com/blog/2009/07/personal-business-and-government-travel/ Data Centers, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing Sun, 02 May 2010 01:04:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Tim Sylvester http://www.douglasgourlay.com/blog/2009/07/personal-business-and-government-travel/comment-page-1/#comment-49 Tim Sylvester Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:10:45 +0000 http://www.douglasgourlay.com/blog/?p=69#comment-49 Great post Doug! Another reason government officials should fly coach is to experience the same abysmal service the rest of us receive. After a couple of missed flights they would be changing the regulations. I don't do as much business travel as I did when I worked for Cisco but on recent trip the service level reminded me of traveling in a third world country. On a recent trip, I made the mistake of booking the last connecting flight out of Denver to Omaha. The flight out of San Jose was delayed for an hour and landed five minutes after the connecting flight's scheduled departure time. The plane took off and I spent the night in Denver. They should be able to hold the flight for 30 minutes when it is the last flight of the day. There is a similar problem with health care. Congress and their staffers have great health insurance that is not available to the majority of the country. They have private group health insurance that is only available to large organizations like Cisco and the government. Check out their health care plan at: http://www.opm.gov/INSURE/HEALTH/. Tim Great post Doug! Another reason government officials should fly coach is to experience the same abysmal service the rest of us receive. After a couple of missed flights they would be changing the regulations.

I don’t do as much business travel as I did when I worked for Cisco but on recent trip the service level reminded me of traveling in a third world country. On a recent trip, I made the mistake of booking the last connecting flight out of Denver to Omaha. The flight out of San Jose was delayed for an hour and landed five minutes after the connecting flight’s scheduled departure time. The plane took off and I spent the night in Denver. They should be able to hold the flight for 30 minutes when it is the last flight of the day.

There is a similar problem with health care. Congress and their staffers have great health insurance that is not available to the majority of the country. They have private group health insurance that is only available to large organizations like Cisco and the government. Check out their health care plan at: http://www.opm.gov/INSURE/HEALTH/.

Tim

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