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2. Prior to starting travel for any given event, your travel agent
should compile a list of "ball-park" air fares for the list of cities
typically used by ICANN travelers. The list might include 50-60
cities but based on my personal experiences, it should not take much
time or effort to compile. I acknowledge that doing this well will
require a good travel agent who understands the issues related to
travel from and to locations that are "unusual" in the sense of
traditional business travel and understands transit visa issues for
those not from North America or western Europe. If some needed cities
are omitted, they can be added later. Estimates should be based on
fares of regularly schedules "business oriented" airlines. By that I
exclude charter airlines, fares provided by consolidators and fares
offered by airlines that focus on vacation and tour-package travelers

• all of whom tend to provide very poor service to recover from
  irregular operations. The estimate should include the service fee
  that would be charged by the agent if they did the booking.

3. I recommend that there still be an "exception" policy to handle
requests outside of the constraints described here, but there should
be far fewer of them. One exception that I would explicitly call out
would be travel to and from the local airport where such travel
clearly exceeds what could reasonably covered by per diem allocations.

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