Who in your company has access to the corporate aircraft? Is it just a handful of top executives, or can anyone with a need for travel schedule a trip? Does your department have a policy for selecting between competing schedules, or does the highest-ranking executive get the aircraft regardless of other considerations? Is your marketing department a welcome and frequent user of your flight department, or must the company’s best salespeople plead with the chairman’s PA to arrange a customer visit?
Far too many corporations limit access to company aircraft. We all know of Fortune 100 firms with a fleet of aircraft valued at close to $100 million that serve a dozen or fewer top people. How unfortunate. And how shortsighted, not only for those responsible for maximizing return from shareholder’s equity, but also for flight department personnel, who certainly would like to have job security.
