Owning vs. charter vs. airlines

"Alan Street" wrote in message
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In article , Mike
wrote:

? On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 01:21:11 -0600, "Scott Jensen"
? wrote:
?
? 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?
?
? Scott Jensen
?
? I am pretty sure that private jet ownership will lose in a pure cost
? comparison. However, to make a fair comparison, one would have to
? consider many factors. What is the passenger's time worth? Is there
? convenient regular scheduled service? etc. A round trip first class
? ticket from the US to Europe can be upwards of $10,000 if purchased at
? the last minute. Or you could buy your own Boeing Business Jet for
? $40,000,000. Even if only used for one trip, the BBJ could have a net
? lower cost. If the passenger takes the commercial flight for $10,000
? and the airline gets him there late and he loses the $4 billion dollar
? deal, then you can see why he would be better off spending the money
? for the BBJ.

$4 billion dollar deals are pretty rare.

And ones that get lost because you get there a day later are non-existant.

Mike
MU-2

$4 billion dollar deals are pretty rare.

And ones that get lost because you get there a day later are non-existant.

Mike
MU-2


Okay, the $4B thing is a bad example, but anyone who doesn't think that
large deals have not been lost over small things has not spent enough time
around the petty country club that is now the american boardroom. The
people running most of our large corporations are more about power and ego
than dollars and sense - yes, I mean "sense".

I can't stand them, can't understand them, can't underestimate them, and
will likely have to go back to dealing with them to make enough dough to pay
for my aviation habit. Sure, many of them are just being pragmatic about the
way things are, but too many of them wouldn't change it if they could.