Posts Tagged ‘ corporate aviation ’

What Cuban, Pippen And Other Biz Leaders Need To Know (Part III)

In two recent articles two celebrities show an apparent lack of process acquiring private jets. Many very experienced aviation professionals offer their expertise for matters such as these. [ READ MORE ]

What Business Leaders Should Know About Business Aviation … (Part One)

What Business Leaders Should Know About Business Aviation ... (Part One); a repost from Forbes "Wheels Up" blog, where I am a regular contributor[ READ MORE ]

Dichotomies of Business Aviation (BizAv)

Very recently a U.S. Midwestern company had their principal in Europe on the airlines. His airline flight arrangements were delayed by volcanic ash clouds. The company flight department was able to get an aircraft to meet up with the principal and get him home three days before the airlines could have. What was that worth [ READ MORE ]

My response to, “Polish Crash Puts Spotlight on Pilots’ Duties”

Following was my response to STLtoday August 13th article by AP writers David Crary and Adam Geller, “Polish Crash Puts Spotlight On Pilots’ Duties.” This comes down to the relationship of the pilots and the executives. The executives need to realize the effects they have on pilot decision-making. Further, pilots need to regard themselves with [ READ MORE ]

BizAv Advocacy Grassroots Efforts

The April 2010 Business and Commercial Aviation article titled “Grassroots Business Aviation Associations” is an excellent article citing the value of BizAv organizations and their efforts. The article cited the many success stories of regional and local business aviation associations as they combated issues threatening general aviation. In addition to the value of these groups [ READ MORE ]

Pilots and Depression Treatment

It truly is far better to encourage pilots to get help than allow them to fly with untreated mental illness. As quoted in the Wall Street Journal online today, “Untreated depression affects cognition probably more than any possible detrimental effect of any of these antidepressants,” said P. Murali Doraiswamy. I remember listening to an Air [ READ MORE ]

My response on a talent management blog

Bluebridge on Leadership’s Andre Weber wrote a blog on the “Common Objections Against Talent Management”. The following was my comment on his page. Andre is right on. We see this quite a bit in business aviation. Much of what Andre said happens for the reasons he stated, as well as a few other reasons. For [ READ MORE ]

The Aviation Industry

Following is a copy of my response to a LinkedIn group discussion. The discussion centered on finding out how we keep up on the industry. One of the respondents mentioned that he was focusing on improving airline training practices. The following was written in response to his post. “The operative phrase from my perspective is [ READ MORE ]

Business aviation needs a business focus

Business aviation was born of an elitist privilege; or was it? Today business leaders know that BizAv contributes to the bottom line. Unless one is extremely wealthy and maybe running a private company, they don’t travel on business aircraft because they simply earned the privilege. They do because they value this mode of travel over [ READ MORE ]

How will you travel?

PBS and CBS have both carried stories about airline safety this week (See www.PBS.org Frontline, “Flying Cheap” and www.CBSNEWS.com “Where America Stands: Air Travel”). Public conversations regarding U.S. airlines are quite negatively characterized. More and more, non-aviators can be heard exclaiming their opinions about airlines and more and more I am impressed with what people [ READ MORE ]

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