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Imagine how much it would suck if I was on the plane and knew that I wouldn't be able to make the meeting. Thanks mate, i'm going to try to avoid doing it altogether but if I can't do that at least I know its possible.
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We had to deliver cryptographic source code to a customer office in Australia once. The law at the time meant it couldn’t be transferred by file, so a colleague volunteered to fly to Sydney to deliver the CD-ROM with it on. He got a taxi from the airport to the customer office, handed over the CD, waited for them to confirm they could read it, then got a taxi back to the airport and flew home. He lived.
He was odd though.
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I was going to say, it seems to be a massive waste of fuel, time and money. Definitely try to get the whole trip scrapped (documents via courier, meeting over Skype etc.?). Maybe make something up about having to watch a sick child or something.
Edit: apparently one return flight to Australia is about equivalent to 50,000 miles in your average car in terms of Co2.
andyp
frankenbike
That’s 2 13 hour flights. Each way. Doable in 3 days, not in 2 and pretty hellish either way.
I got caught by delays and cancellations on the way back once and from stepping foot in the airport Aus side, it was 42 hours until stepping out at Heathrow.