Business Travelers Shun Flying With Their Boss

Give business travelers a choice, and they’d rather sit with a colleague than a boss while flying.

That’s the finding of a national survey of 1,000 business travelers commissioned by Shuttle by United. Eighty-seven percent of respondents said they prefer to sit with another employee on a trip rather than a supervisor.

East Coast passengers are more likely than West Coast travelers to ask to sit near the boss. Airline executives theorize that because flights in the East tend to be shorter, the idea of traveling with a boss is more palatable than it would be on a longer haul.