The corona pandemic changed business travel from one day to the next and the consequences are still ongoing. While in many companies the middle management, who once loved to travel, has to work increasingly with video and telephone conferences, top managers are apparently increasingly indulging in higher travel classes.

A survey carried out by Airplus showed that booking business class or first class for rail travel is preferred. One of the arguments put forward is that there would be fewer contacts and thus a lower risk of infection. According to Airplus, a total of 750 top managers in Europe were surveyed.

An interesting side aspect is that some participants indicated that they would generally book higher travel classes for their employees as well. One of the reasons for this was that they wanted to protect them as best as possible from possible infection with the coronavirus. At the same time, the argumentation also shows that many managers are obviously not at all indifferent to how the personnel get through the crisis or how one cannot afford the loss of key personnel.

The Travel Inside portal draws the conclusion that significantly more business trips can be expected in the next few years than in 2019. In this context, combined with the fact that business class is also increasingly being booked on short-haul flights, many managers assume that travel costs will rise. How long the “C boom” will last remains to be seen. At some point there could be savings issues again.