Oh, I agree with you. Those people are important to the company. You need to make sure they are safe and can continue to work and be productive while travelling. It’s easy to justify cost when that guy makes millions of dollars per year. You don’t want to lose a day’s work.
I just pictured 3 ceo’s meeting on the tarmac with their brown bag lunches and one of them saying - alright, we’ll take my jet to DC and you guys pitch in for fuel. Made me laugh…