Flight schedules are changing around the world. Airline companies are reducing and introducing new flights to regulate the trend of corporate travel caused by COVID.
Industry data shows that business trips became longer after the COVID-19 pandemic. Airline companies are having to correct flight plans. Longer trips are replacing day trips as the industry standard due to environmental issues, higher ticket prices, frequent flight cancellations, because of staff shortages and the online video conferencing boom.
The popularity of online meetings is growing, so globally, the number of one-day internal trips dropped by more than 25% in comparison to 2019 numbers. That's the statement provided by the corporate travel agency CWT.
In 2019, the average internal business trip in Australia was shorter. In the third quarter of this year, it increased to nearly four days, and ticket prices rose sharply.