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![]() "Scott Jensen" wrote in message ... There is usually a point where it is cheaper to do it yourself than have someone else do it for you. What I'm wondering is what would that point be when it comes to trans-world air travel. When does buying your own jet and employing your own pilots make economic sense than using an airline? Or will the airlines always be cheaper? More specifically, let's say you have a number of employees in Fiji. Each gets four round-trip flights to anywhere in the world each year as part of their benefit package. Most will want to use at least one of those for the Christmas season to spend the holidays with family. There would also be an expected heavier usage of their flight options during the summer. The question I have is: How many employees would one need to have where buying a private jet and employing pilots would make economic sense? Would there also be a span between these two options where chartering a private jet would make economic sense? The economic justification for business jets is that they can save very valuable time of highly paid executives. It never makes sense on a cost per mile basis. Mike MU-2 |
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Mike Rapoport wrote:
"Scott Jensen" wrote in message ... There is usually a point where it is cheaper to do it yourself than have someone else do it for you. What I'm wondering is what would that point be when it comes to trans-world air travel. When does buying your own jet and employing your own pilots make economic sense than using an airline? Or will the airlines always be cheaper? More specifically, let's say you have a number of employees in Fiji. Each gets four round-trip flights to anywhere in the world each year as part of their benefit package. Most will want to use at least one of those for the Christmas season to spend the holidays with family. There would also be an expected heavier usage of their flight options during the summer. The question I have is: How many employees would one need to have where buying a private jet and employing pilots would make economic sense? Would there also be a span between these two options where chartering a private jet would make economic sense? The economic justification for business jets is that they can save very valuable time of highly paid executives. It never makes sense on a cost per mile basis. Mike MU-2 Add to that marketing (or lobbying) value. What better way to win over a b2b client's business or a congressman's vote than to give them a free ride in a corporate jet? |
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"Adam Weiss" wrote:
Add to that marketing (or lobbying) value. What better way to win over a b2b client's business or a congressman's vote than to give them a free ride in a corporate jet? Now I would think this is a very good point. If the Fiji business were needing to impress a little over 200 clients a year and these clients would always want to travel to the business' location to personally inspect the facilities, wouldn't a private jet greatly assist in this? The clients being from all over the globe and at least half not from a major city. Each client would always be accompanied by two assistants on these inspection trips. However, they could be grouped together to come with other three-person client groups and all these scheduled well in advance. Also, each year the company would fly in its Board of Directors and they would be spread over different continents. Wouldn't offering to fly them in on the company's private jet be another enticement for them to want to sit on the board? Or at least make the hassle of the trip less of a hassle thus not as big of a negative against them joining the board? Then again, would offering to fly the above two groups first-class be just as good of a way to impress them? And what about offering employees the option of trading in their four annual vacation coach-class round-trip anywhere-in-the-world airline tickets for one first-class round-trip anywhere-in-the-world airline ticket? Or, saying it was going their way to do one of the above two types of trips, one round-trip flight in the corporate jet? If they decide to take just one vacation a year, I could see them trading up for this. Scott Jensen -- Like gumshoe detective stories? Like free comics? If so, Private Eye Butterfly is the webcomic for you! http://www.users.bigpond.com/toonerfish/peb.html |
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