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Management team travel is the most common use of business aircraft.
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Management teams have a substantial aggregate hourly value to their employers.
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The combined costs of air services, employee travel time (door to door), and other trip expenses (such as hotel, meals, rental cars, etc.) often compare favorably to airline travel between second-tier cities or rural locations.
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When the value of employee time is considered along with the value of productive time enroute and non-business hours away from home (family time), the compari-son of business aircraft travel versus public transportation often becomes problematic.
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Some progressive companies have or are installing conference facilities in corporate hangars to facilitate off-site meetings.
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Corporate hangars also are being equipped with transient manager offices which can be used for private conversations, study, or sending and receiving e-mail.
Point to Point
The Shortest Distance...
Camp Hill, a suburb of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, is headquarters for Rite Aid, which operates over 4,000 neigh borhood drug stores in 30 states, many of which are morphing to include easy access, expanded parking, full-service and drive-through pharmacies, one-hour photo finishing, express mail ser vice, convenience foods, and expanded cosmetics departments.
Unfortunately, Camp Hill, from whence
What do helicopter operators
all these innovations seem to know that others don’t? and renovations are managed, is centrally located smack dab in the middle of the Northeast United States and a logistical hike from almost everywhere else. And nearby Harrisburg also has yet to rise to major airline hub status, ranking 232nd nationally for scheduled air service frequency. So Rite Aid uses a helicopter to enable senior managers to move rapid ly from door to door. That begins right outside headquarters’ front foyer. With
a heliport immediately adjacent to HQ, an ordinary 20- to 25-minute drive to Harrisburg International Airport is only a 20-second walk to the company’s heliport. Once aboard, for compari son’s sake, door-to-door helicopter versus drive times from Camp Hill are: Washington, DC: 35 vs. 140 minutes Baltimore: 25 vs. 90 minutes Philadelphia: 35 vs. 150 minutes Pittsburgh: 1 hour vs. 3 hours.
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