What Is Your Air Travel Ritual?
Three local leaders on the routine they act out before hitting the sky.
IAN BANKS (l), vice-president, global information technology, PMC-Sierra Inc.
“I try to arrive early. I’ve missed my fair share of flights and had my stress level extremely high scrambling to get to the airport either in the taxi or driving myself. That’s no fun. I usually hop on the Wi-Fi at the airport and do work most of the time. I’m not good at sleeping on planes, but when I need to sometimes I’ll get a few drinks because it helps me get a couple hours of sleep.”
KENNETH WERKER (c), managing partner, Vancouver office, Odgers Berndtson
“I just have my checklist so I don’t forget anything – papers I require for the trip, files, my passports. Usually, I go to the Air Canada lounge and wait for my flight. I grab a snack because they don’t really feed you on the airplanes anymore. I read a good book to make the time pass quickly because the files that we deal with are confidential so it’s not really possible to read them on the airplane.”
JAMES MOORE, MP for Port Moody-Westwood-Port Coquitlam and minister of Canadian heritage and official languages
“I take my dogs for a good long walk before I leave them for the week and then drop them off and head to the airport.
Usually, I get a Jugo Juice strawberry-banana and then a chicken wrap thing. I always have a bottle of water before I go on the flight and bring it on with me because I don’t like to be asking all the time for drinks and stuff from the flight attendants.”
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