53 ~ Sunday, June 25, 1989 - North Shore News

Know | how to avoid business travel delays

IN A sense, I am a business
travelier.

: However, unlike the average
business traveller who is off to sell
a product, check on branch offices
or attend meetings, I just go places
to fook around.

If my schedules get lopsided, my
planes are late or my bags get lost,

‘no big deal. In fact, the more glit-

’ ches that crop up, the more mate-

_Yial I get for you to laugh about —
and be on guard for. | didn’t find
out about cockroaches from
reading a book.

The REAL “business traveller”
is a different breed of cat. She isn’t
in the mood to have any
unscheduled foul-ups and does her
best to make everything move
smartly.

I received a copy of a newsletter
**Choices” published by Priority
Management Systems that was full
of interesting advice for the
business traveller.

I'm going to summarize some of
it here. If anyone would like a free
copy. of the entire publication, I
called the company vice-president
‘and he agreed to make them avail-
able.

Contact Trevor Boggie at 879-
6121 or write: M5, 601 West
Broadway, Vancouver, V5Z 4CZ.

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travellers. How can we best avoid
delays?

travel
wise
Barbara McCreadie

First, it is useful to know that
the best time of the day to schedule
either an arrival or departure is be-
tween six and seven in the morn-
ing. At this time you have over 90
per cent chance of Janding on time.

The worst times of the day are
between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.

These statistics are American,

but I see no reason for them not to

apply world-wide.

Next, the. publication mentions
that some airlines are a great deal
better than others at getting you to
your destination on time, baggage
in hand,

Of the U.S. ones we are apt to
fly, American and Delta were
named in the top five.

I tried to track down a similar
rating sheet for Canadian airline
cormpanies and neither Transport
Canada nor the National Trans-
portation Agency had any infor-
mation. Ottawa might have some
answers, but I don’t.

I have two written complaints,
well documented and by people |
know regarding Canadian Airlines.

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One of the best pieces of advice
I was given was: “‘Never plan any-
thing important for the first Z4
hours following any flight over
three hours.”

I can’t remember wiio con-
tributed that bit to my education
but it’s dead right. You may think
you’re functioning normally but
that ugly term “‘jet lag’’ is no
myth.

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Hanson, author of ‘Stress For
Success”? on ways to minimize
many of its effects, including fa-
tigue, poor concentration and ir-
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