考研英语阅读例题：As Penny-Pinchers Hover, Business Trips Rebound.doc

As Penny-Pinchers Hover, Business Trips Rebound 节俭出行，商务旅行回暖 The New York Times November 29, 2010 Some airlines, after a long period of cutting capacity, are now cautiously adding seats to accommodate the growth in demand. Delta, for example, said in October that its fourth-quarter capacity would be up 3 to 5 percent domestically and 10 to 12 percent internationally. Wall Street loves hearing that airlines are holding the line on capacity because it means that supply and demand are balanced in favor of the supplier. But since January, according to a recent report by the International Air Transport Association, worldwide airline capacity “has entered the market at a faster rate than demand.” Airlines have been rushing to assure stock market analysts that they still have the demand-supply equation under control. Meanwhile, companies are alarmed by indications that travel costs are rising, even as improved economic conditions argue for sending more employees out on the road. Next year, according to the American Express Global Business Travel Forecast released last month, “pricing power will swing back to air and hotel suppliers for the first time in two years.” For business travelers, of course, this all means more lectures from corporate travel managers about saving money. As the American Express report put it, companies need to re-examine cost control tactics to guard against the expected “significant rate increases” next year. According to the annual Business Traveler Survey just released by the consulting company Deloitte, 24 percent of respondents plan to take more business trips next year and an additional 56 percent expect to take at least as many as in 2010. They’re on a tighter rein, too. Half said they were now required to obtain preapproval for business trips. Nearly a quarter said they were now staying at cheaper hotels. Now, those of us who have been around this rodeo for a while have seen this particular event many times. Corporate travel managers wail tha