There was a famous case in 2017 where a surgeon was violently removed from an overbooked United Express airliner. He had refused to leave voluntarily, as doing so would have meant not seeing his patients the next day. [0] I'm not sure this strictly counts as travelling for work, but the points remains.
Plenty of people fly abroad for medical care. [1]
Over 2,000 flights were cancelled in this incident. Over 300,000 would-be passengers were affected. [2] It's implausible that nobody's medical care was affected.
> I did not claim nobody's medical care was affected.
You said the flight doesn't contribute to preventing harm to anyone. Interfering with medical care is a clear form of harm, that's why I focused on it.
> it's not common to fly for medical care (yes, very rich people may have a different perception, but that's all it is)
That's incorrect on both counts: it's common, and it's not just rich patients. Please take a look at the Medical tourism Wikipedia article I linked above. Cost-reduction is a major motivation of medical tourism.
From [0] :
> in 2016 nearly 144,000 UK citizens travelled abroad for medical treatment. The survey suggests a steady increase since 2000, even though the 2016 sample of 250,000 travellers represent 0.23% of the total number of travellers entering or leaving the UK.
There was a famous case in 2017 where a surgeon was violently removed from an overbooked United Express airliner. He had refused to leave voluntarily, as doing so would have meant not seeing his patients the next day. [0] I'm not sure this strictly counts as travelling for work, but the points remains.
Plenty of people fly abroad for medical care. [1]
Over 2,000 flights were cancelled in this incident. Over 300,000 would-be passengers were affected. [2] It's implausible that nobody's medical care was affected.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_United_Express_passenger_...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_tourism
[2] https://aerospaceglobalnews.com/news/uk-airport-disruption-f...