In 2023, we expect to see more people making more “intentional” flights, such as choosing the least carbon-intensive route, combining business trips and vacations, or even swapping short flights for the train.
In a New Year’s LinkedIn post, SimpliFlying CEO Shashank Nigam showed how he had reduced his pre-COVID quota of 45 annual flights down to 15.
He’d done so by thinking carefully about whether he needed to be at conferences in person (in almost every case, the answer has been no), combining family vacations with business trips and taking the train on shorter routes (for example, London to Edinburgh).
He also made a point of flying direct where possible, which is better both for the airline and the environment, while offsetting every flight.
Shashank calls this “intentional flying,” a trend we expect to see more of in 2023.