Gear Up: The Real Reason for the Private Jet

摘要

Despite efforts by the National Business Aviation Association and some aircraft manufacturers, little success has been achieved in changing the public's mind about private airplanes, especially jets. When the CEOs of the big three (well, the diminished three) automakers arrived inrnWashington, D.C, in three separate corporate jets to claim taxpayer bailout money, you didn't have to be Simon Cowell to know that the public relations folks at these companies were tone deaf. No wonder they were still trying to peddle Hummers when gas was $4.30 a gallon.rnThe usual excuse for corporate aircraft is that the top people are so valuable that sitting around an airport waiting for a tired old 757 to take them to a hub and then onto their destination like the rest of us is somehow a crime against nature. I don't buy it.