■ Engineering teams are commonly dispatched to rural or remote areas to:
—rapidly restore service at “down” facilities or sites
—monitor, inspect and review construction progress
—install, modify or dismantle equipment
—deliver and install emergency parts
—evaluate potential construction sites
—attend or facilitate meetings
—visit suppliers
■ Business aircraft can:
—replace unavailable commercial air service
—improve access, make travel easy, save money
—connect engineering personnel to the end result
of their work
■ Other trip types include:
—Piggy-Back Flights: Some companies fly trips where passengers are dropped off enroute to make the flight more cost effective.
—Round Robins: Some companies fly multi-stop trips where pas-sengers meet on the aircraft on a rolling basis for briefings or consultations. This practice is particularly useful for company directors who are senior managers at other companies who would otherwise be unavailable except for time enroute to their next destination.
International Travel
Transformation
It’s funny what happens to your perspective when you realize that 96 percent of the world’s population does not live in the United States.
At 57, Hartley Peavey has seen – and heard – a thing or two. From scratch, launched out of his father’s basement in 1964, the boss at Peavey Electronics has built a 2,000-person company which today boasts a 3,000-item multi-national product catalog. It has not entirely been an overnight success.
“Early on, I decided that if I could n’t be a rock star, then I’d give every musician what they’d always told me that they wanted – a good product for a fair and reasonable price. This was a new concept at the time,” he says.
“And of course everybody said I was crazy. They were probably correct, but the fact is I’ve always thought that if you’re trying to break into a market, you should make something everybody else didn’t. At the beginning, I would build guitars and amps myself and in doing so I discovered a better way to do it. That was nearly 35 years ago.”
Peavey’s international epiphany was not sudden. “When I was a student at Mississippi State, I never in a million years thought that I’d have the oppor tunity to even visit another country. But I’ve always been kind of curious about things. Conventional wisdom has never burdened me much. And it had always been significant to me that 96 percent of the world’s population lives outside of the United States. So, thinking com mercially as I do, if we are a U.S.-based company and leave 96 percent of the world’s population untouched, well, that probably was ‘stinkin’ think ing.’ I had spent half my life at trade shows and that’s where you begin to understand that the world’s a bigger place.
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