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Many short distance flights are business related but as someone who was working in an international corporation I can tell you there's plenty of business monkeys who fly simply for the prestige of it. They fly to attend meetings that could've been an email or a call just so they can pretend they're hot shit.
Massively disappointing.
I like getting the train. First class is often similar or cheaper than the flight, it's better for the environment, it's easy to get up and walk around, and you get 4 hours of work done (instead of 2 hours of queuing, 1 hour of flying, 1 hour of queuing/waiting).
I find companies are as happy to pay a train fair as they are a flight.
And airports commonly need trains/busses/taxis to get to/from anyway.
I'd rather arrive in the city center than the outskirts
I must admit, when I first started working after uni, I thought I was hot shit for flying domestically (Hamburg<>Munich). Even had my BlackBerry set to loud, so people know I don't belong to the tourist shmucks. God fucking damn it, I'm cringing so hard at the memories. At least I was away for the entire week and not just a single meeting.
Traveling via ICE is so, sooo much better! I do miss the BlackBerry though. The iPhone keyboard is complete garbage in comparison. I keep the phone silent nowadays. Man, what a cringelord I was back then.