For generations of business travelers, the short-haul flight has been almost automatic. A meeting is several hundred miles away, so you book a plane, leave for the airport, clear security, fly for an hour or two, and make your way back into another city center. Yet that familiar routine is increasingly being challenged by faster trains, crowded airports, corporate sustainability targets, and a growing realization that flight time tells only part of the story.

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