Flight Plans

This is the first visit to Amsterdam for both national marine sales manager Jim George and me. While the bulk of our time will be spent in meetings or working the METS show floor, we still wanted to find some time to see the sights and do the tourist thing, even if only for a few hours. With the distributor meeting scheduled for Monday and METS on Tuesday through Thursday, we took an overnight flight, along with executive VP of sales Ian Palmer, that departed Boston on Saturday evening and arrived on Sunday morning.

The flight isn’t actually that long but the six-hour jump ahead is a killer. You try your best to sleep on the flight, knowing that you’ll be landing at 8 AM and have a full day ahead of you, even though it’s actually 2 AM on the east coast of the U.S. However, doing it this way gives us a bit of time on Sunday before we need to meet up with the team from KVH Europe. They’ll be arriving later in the day to set up the booth at the exhibition center as well as prep for the Monday meeting. We'll be joined by KVH president and CEO Martin Kits van Heyningen, who will arrive on Monday morning via the Sunday night flight from Boston. All told, there will be 12 KVH team members on hand.