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Orianna Rosa Royle

Delta CEO says fears business travel has died are greatly overstated—hybrid workers are just shifting the data

Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian (Credit: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg — Getty Images)

Business travel is dead—or at least, that’s what many assume. With video calls making it easier than ever to connect with colleagues around the world, the thinking holds that there’s a weaker business case to spend thousands on hopping on a jet to mingle. 

Besides, with remote and hybrid working still the norm, what's the point of traveling to the London or Paris office if no one's there? Even Microsoft’s Bill Gates predicted that more than 50% of business travel would disappear in the pandemic’s aftermath.

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