I used to do at least 2 business trips to the US per year. But then, the pandemic came and afterwards my company has heavily restricted business travel to only critical trips.

I'm pretty bummed because on the company side I haven't been able to meet IRL my colleagues from my team on the West Coast. I'm also going to lose my airline status next month, which will make personal trips more annoying.

One has also to take into account that Google might do layoffs:

Will I do a business trip to the US this year?