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Miserable, But Very Safe

I know of no executive who enjoys business travel. In the most recent move to make your next flight more miserable, you will be chagrined to learn…

Anthony LoPinto

I know of no executive who enjoys business travel. In the most recent move to make your next flight more miserable, you will be chagrined to learn that most of the major airlines are gradually rolling-out new fleet aircraft that are scrunching more seats into an already tight sardine can.  One example is the 777 configuration that will now offer 10 seats across versus the historical nine which was already uncomfortable.

However, I do not want to dwell on this angle today.  The bigger, and more important news is that commercial travel is very safe.  It was recently announced that the year 2017 was the safest on record for airline passengers, without a single commercial jet crashing in passenger service anywhere in the world. This struck me as amazing.  With that record, the chances of being involved in a fatal accident at now one in 16 million.

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Anthony J. LoPinto

Anthony J. LoPinto

Tony LoPinto is the Global Sector Leader of Korn Ferry’s Real Estate Practice and founder of SelectLeaders. For the past 18 years LoPinto has been serving his clients with deep knowledge and perspective on talent needs and organizational challenges to public and private companies – knowledge gained from a 25-year career in real estate. Prior to his current position, he founded and served as chief executive officer of a boutique real estate executive search firm, where he oversaw offices in New York, Chicago, Washington, DC, San Francisco and Los Angeles. He has successfully led several high profile search engagements for chief executive officers, directors and a wide-range of executive level positions across all industries and sectors. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in European history from Loyola University in Chicago.

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