‘Bleisure’ Trips Boom as Travelers Mix Work and Play
- ‘Bleisure’ travel on the rise as more employees work remotely
- Carriers see continued blurring of lines between work, leisure
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It’s an age-old question: “Business or pleasure?” For airline passengers these days, the answer increasingly is both.
The growth in so-called “bleisure” trips blending personal getaways with remote work has helped fill seats on planes during the coronavirus pandemic and marks a shift in travel patterns for an industry used to clear divisions between briefcase-toting road warriors and sun-tanned vacationers.