constant travellers

" Over the next decade, with digitisation, most of the facilities of home and the office will be carried around on the body or at least in a small bag, making those that can afford such objects `geographically independent` (...) Such people will be `free to live where they want and travel as much as they want`- they will be forced to consider whether they are settlers or really `global nomads`.
(Makimonto and Manners 1997)

The modern mobility paradigm is discussed in many fields in connection with convergence of mobile technologies and Internet (Makimoto and Manners 1997, Kluth 2008, Turkle 2008) or in context of globalisation (Sloterdijk 1988, Iyer 2001, Rossler 1999, Gottdiener 2000, Bauman 2005, Cresswell 2006, Nowicka 2006, Urry 2008), There are many names that describe interpid and prividgeld class of travellers such as Global Nomads, Kinetic Elite, Frequent Business Traveller, Frequent Business Flier, the New Business Class, Mega Travellers, Road Wariors or even Global Player. (see also Jason Reitman`s film " Up in the Air", USA 2009). Moreover, according to British sociologist John Urry, there are tvelve main mobility forms in contemporary world, today. These forms can overlap and impinge upon each other. They are of course dependent upor passports, visa regulations, residence, and labour qualifications and based on classifications like asylum, refugee, homeless travel, and migration.

However, the aviation industry reffer to three letters PAX while looking at passengers in the airport. For them, the PAX represents a generalized view on what real passenger look like, think or feel. Derived from my field research at the Frankfurt International Airport ( >> http://monika.codourey.info), I have indentified five main types of air-travellers. I have observed a new growing group of travellers that are constantly `on the move` for work purpose, These travellers do not belong to a priviledged group of travellers described by P.Sloterdijk as `kinetic elite`. They also no not qualify for a `frequent flyer` status as preffered customers of particular airlines. Moreover, these travellers seemed to develop similar behaviour and cognitive patterns and routines in the airport. I called them `constant travellers` and decided to investigate their personal profile and to proof my concept through empirical research.