And one thing is clear from my conversations with business travelers, travel managers, air travel analysts and even government officials.
Corporate travel managers and travel management companies have been able to negotiate lower fares by promising a certain market share.
So travelers and travel managers are not natural enemies.
Travel managers winked (or winced) as high-value business travelers managed to deftly skirt formal rules.
They're usually referred to by travel managers, pointedly, as "rogue travelers".
And corporate travel managers are generally allowing business travelers across the board to upgrade to better seats.
For business travelers, of course, this all means more lectures from corporate travel managers about saving money.
This week, corporate travel managers are more focused on locating and repatriating business travellers who were in Japan on assignments when the earthquake occurred.
European corporate travel managers are more optimistic.
So solve that one, please, business travel managers.
The joke was on the corporate travel managers.
