Expedia.com reports small increases in round-trip flights for June, July and August travel, domestic and international trips combined, but the increase is at a much slower rate than jumps of about 10% the previous two summers.
With governments on both sides of the Atlantic scrambling to come up with new ways to stimulate their economies, encouraging companies to hire workers and bring the unemployment rate down, I started wondering: how much do our business trips stimulate the economy, and how many jobs do we save every time we take off?