Teleconferencing is stiekem uitgegroeid tot een zeer aanvaardbaar alternatief ten opzichte van actueel op reis gaan. het zou zich wel eens kunnen ontwikkelen tot een ernstiger bedreiging voor de commerciele luchtvaart dan een hoge olie prijs.
Vakantie vluchten daargelaten, hoewel, virtueel op reis gaan heeft ook zijn charmes.

September 8th, 2008 - Three more airlines have declared bankruptcy in the last 45 days: Zoom Airlines, Vintage Props and Jets, and the Italian national carrier Alitalia bringing total bankruptcies over two dozen. The flight information company OAG has announced that the carriers will offer 60 million fewer flights between October and December of 2008. The airfare reasearch site FareCompare.com reports that domestic fares between large metro cities are already up roughly 16 percent since Jan. 2, while fares between small cities are up roughly 37 percent year-to-date.

Telepresence's impact on the airlines is starting to be felt... HSBC, which recently announced a deployment of 6 Cisco TelePresence systems, reports that they were able to save $604,000 on air travel in one month between their London HQ and their Hong Kong office. Publicly available telepresence deployments are starting to accelerate. Tata Communications has launched the first five publicly available Cisco TelePresence systems in what they have announced will be a 100 system global roll-out by the end of 2009. PangeAir has begun rolling out publicly available telepresence locations in Hyatt hotels and launched a publicly available location in the Dayton Convention Center.

Hier is een interessante link.

http://www.telepresenceoptions.com/2008/09/the_collapse_of_commercial_avi/

Wat denkt men op Airwork ?

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