Business
Travel Solutions
Bringing Peace of Mind to Business Travel
It
was getting on for 6.30 in the evening and the queue at the
check-in desk at Barcelona airport was hardly moving an inch.
The
business traveller was a long way back in the queue, feeling
frustrated and nervous. Something had happened to flights
to France and passengers were being rebooked.
He
began to feel a little less confident about the DIY itinerary
he had booked with such satifaction via the internet, even
though he thought he had saved a lot of his small company's
precious money as a result.
Up
ahead he recognised someone who had an office near his in
East Sussex. He was about to say hello when he saw her take
a call on her mobile. Seconds later, she left the queue and
headed for the airport exit.
Mystified,
he waited his turn. When he finally got to the desk, the news
was not good. There were no flights on to Paris that evening,
he would have to rebook on a flight tomorrow at extra cost
and he would have to find a hotel for the night.
Fuming,
he trudged to the taxi rank and headed for the city and a
cheap hotel.
If
he had been able to eavesdrop on the conversation his acquaintance
had been having, he would have heard her personal travel consultant
Christine Gandy, Managing Director of Business Travel Solutions
in Sussex outlining a new flight itinerary, amended hotel
bookings at her destination and a reservation at the airport
hotel just a short walk away for this unexpected stopover.
And
if the two ever compared notes, he would have discovered her
expenses were actually slightly lower than his and her accumulated
stress levels miles lower.
The
price of this peace of mind?
The price of a good dinner for one.
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