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Originally Posted by cantdrv55
I left two high paying sales positions due to too much air travel. The last one was just regional travel - from SF Bay Area to Oregon. Flying into Central or Southern Oregon every other week got old. It was one day wasted each way because of limited flight schedules and inevitable delays.
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I left one for the same reason... Currently, I've got a customer who really likes me to do work in either remote areas (e.g. oilfields) or somewhere in the eastern time zone. I started charging them a little for travel time. They balked because I would charge a total of 4 to 6 hours of travel. The problem from my standpoint is that it would take an entire DAY to get there and another entire DAY to get back. So if it is one day of actual paid work, I take 3 days out of my work-week to do it and unless I charged something for my travel, it was just not financial viable for me. We reached an equitable compromise.
The regional jets - absolutely have to shift passengers around. Happens all of the time. Unless the flight is stuffed absolutely full because they have cancelled the two previous ones... Which is often the case.
If the drive is less than about 6 or 7 hours, I just drive. The whole get up at 3am to get to the airport at 4:30, to leave at 5:50 and spend the rest of the day screwing around with another flight, and another rental car agency, etc., is just not worth it. Its actually faster to drive.
And I will stop and pee anytime I feel like!
angela