Shuttle operations: An evolution coming of age
The corporate shuttle.

The corporate shuttle. It starts “here,” goes “there” and comes back again on a regular schedule. Not unlike a weaver’s “shuttle,” efficiently pulling the thread back and forth to create a work worthy of the weaver’s craft. And that, in essence, is what the corporate shuttle aircraft does.

But nothing is as simple as it sounds, and the concept of the corporate shuttle has evolved considerably since Ford began regular operations between Dearborn, Mich. and Chicago in the mid-1920s, flying mail and parts in a Ford-powered Stout trimotor.