You have a short time to rebook but longer to fly, right? Recommend
rescheduling for Provo in October. That is more certain time/loc than next
meeting.
Has anyone challenged AA on the rebook period? They appear to me much
tighter than other airlines (2-3 months to rebook, 1 year to fly).
If we really need to settle next meeting in 3 days, this will be tough.
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Harry Lewis
IBM Printing Systems
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"Wagner,William" <WWagner at NetSilicon.com>
Sent by: owner-pwg-announce at pwg.org
03/26/2003 07:58 AM
To: Harry Lewis/Boulder/IBM at IBMUS, <pwg-announce at pwg.org>
cc: Claudia Alimpich/Boulder/IBM at IBMUS, <shawn_pratt at hp.com>
Subject: RE: PWG-ANNOUNCE> URGENT - WASHINGTON D.C. MEETING
CANCELED
Harry,
American Airlines will allow the ticket price to be applied to a
rescheduled flight (or presumably a reservation for a different flight),
provided that this rescheduling is done prior to the end of the originally
scheduled departure date. Your message indicated that the entire PWG
schedule is changed. Is there any chance that the PWG will have the new
meeting schedule sufficiently firm by 29 Mar so that the flight to a new
meeting can be scheduled? (100% confidence is not expected...80% or so
would be sufficient)
Thanks.
Bill Wagner
-----Original Message-----
From: Harry Lewis [mailto:harryl at us.ibm.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 6:25 PM
To: pwg-announce at pwg.org
Cc: Claudia Alimpich; shawn_pratt at hp.com
Subject: PWG-ANNOUNCE> URGENT - WASHINGTON D.C. MEETING CANCELED
Importance: High
Dear PWG Colleague,
The start of military action in Iraq, and heightened terrorist alert
status in the U.S., has forced some of our member companies to change
their travel policies, restricting travel. Although other company’s travel
policies remain unchanged, travel at this time is viewed as tenuous by
many of our regularly attending members. This has resulted in a
substantial reduction in attendance for the Washington D.C. meeting from
what was originally planned.
In many cases, working group chairpersons, editors and key contributors
have had to de-commit which has resulted in cancellation of entire working
group meetings. The reduction in numbers and key personnel is disruptive
enough to the agenda that the Printer Working Group, along with FSG and
CIP4 have decided to cancel the meetings that were to be held at the
Wyndham Washington D.C. on March 31-April 4, 2003.
To compensate for this sudden change in plans we will attempt the
following
1. We will try to arrange phone bridges so that anticipated work efforts
may still be accomplished via teleconference (WG chairs to coordinate with
PWG chair and ISTO)
2. We will reschedule our July meeting to occur earlier (May/June) and
likely in an easy access west coast U.S. location (ex. Seattle, San Jose
etc.).
3. We will attempt confluence of PWG, FSG and CIP4 such as would have
occurred in D.C. if at all possible
4. We will rearrange our remaining 2003 venue by moving October from NYC
to Provo (Novell hosting) and December from Provo to (likely) Vegas.
Most airlines are handling travel cancelations at this time by allowing
passengers to reschedule w/o penalty within a specific time frame (ex.
with Frontier it is May 1) and complete travel by year end. Check with
your airline.
You are responsible for canceling your own hotel reservations!
For those of you who have registered with the ISTO for the D.C. meetings,
your credit card will "NOT" be charged any fees by the IEEE for this
meeting. If you do see a charge please notify Ami Patel right away.
Please see her contact information below:
Ami Patel
a.s.patel at ieee.org
Phone: +1 732 465 6477
Fax: +1 732 981 9473
If anyone has any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact
either myself or Ami.
With Kindest Regards,
Harry Lewis
IBM
PWG Chairman
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Harry Lewis
IBM Printing Systems
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