What is Southwest airlines Nuts ?

"C J Campbell" wrote:
"C J Campbell" wrote:
I wonder if business travelers should bother with the airlines at all
anymore.

??

What's the alternative for most of them? High-power bigwigs who can
justify charter or private jet travel are a small fraction of business
travelers.

The vast majority of corporate level flying is now done by middle level
managers.

How do you know? (I withdraw my statement that high-power bigwigs who can
justify charter or private jet travel are a small fraction of business
travelers, since I based it on my own anecdotal observations). Even if this
is so, how frequently does the average MLM traveler fly?

Corporate aviation is very competitive with the airlines when you
consider the cost of transporting a workgroup

But how many business travelers are parts of workgroups? How many are single
travelers? It's true that GA is skimming off a lot of business class
travelers from the airlines, but how many are left that could economically go
GA? Your statement seemed to include them all.
--
Dan
C-172RG at BFM

Dan Luke wrote:

Even if this
is so, how frequently does the average MLM traveler fly?

At my former employer, most of them flew somewhere about twice a year. Then
there's a person for whom I used to work who flies to Birmingham every week. At
that, it's cheaper than moving her there (if she'd even agree to move).

But how many business travelers are parts of workgroups? How many are single
travelers?

The vast majority of ours were single travelers. At times we might send as many
as three people down, but that was rare.

George Patterson
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

"G.R. Patterson III" wrote:
Even if this
is so, how frequently does the average MLM traveler fly?

At my former employer, most of them flew somewhere about twice a year.
Then
there's a person for whom I used to work who flies to Birmingham every
week. At
that, it's cheaper than moving her there (if she'd even agree to
move).

But how many business travelers are parts of workgroups? How many
are single
travelers?

The vast majority of ours were single travelers. At times we might
send as many
as three people down, but that was rare.

That matches my experience when I worked for a large corporation: 3-5
flights/year for most middle managers.

At [Big Company] we peons took the cattle cars and the bigwigs took the
Gulfstreams and King Airs. The top brass used the corporate fleet to
haul their families around also; the planes were a perq.
--
Dan
C172RG at BFM