Re: SE Asia is painful for many, why has it become a preferred destination?

[Christian Hopps <[e-mail]>]

It was suggested to me privately that using city names might be helpful (although if one has to actually book this stuff you probably already know the translation :)

SIN: Singapore
BKK: Bangkok (Thailand)
NRT: Tokyo
ICN: Seoul, Korea

Thanks,
Chris.

> On Feb 16, 2020, at 11:58 AM, Christian Hopps <[e-mail]> wrote:
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> I've read the mtgvenue drafts and they seem to indicate that travel pain should be minimized as much as possible.
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> With IETF 109 we will have chosen SE Asia as a destination for the Asia part of 1-1-1 policy for 4 years running. Also troubling there's a pattern of SIN BKK SIN BKK developing.
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> The *fastest* flights I can find to BKK involve 24h hours of air travel (airplanes and too short layovers for this type of travel). It is incredibly painful to spend 24-30 hours  in airplanes and airports. At least for me (A non-west coast NA based participant) SE Asia is maximizing pain.
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> Japan and Korea both seems to be 1/3 less travel for much of NA, and also seemingly no worse or not as bad for much of Europe.
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> Could the powers that be please consider changing the SIN,BKK,SIN,... pattern to NRT,ICN,NRT,... or at *minimum* mixing more NRT or ICN in there?
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> I think this would benefit a large percentage of IETF participants w/o adding undue pain elsewhere.
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> Thanks,
> Chris.
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