06-09-2019, 10:58 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-09-2019, 02:01 PM by thorn bird.)
Interesting little snippet from Forbes magazine.
Compare the pair,
Two first world countries, one with a regulator that fosters and promotes, the other with a corrupt, authoritarian regulator who trashes and burns.
Two alleged first world countries, one with clear concise regulations, administered with a soft hand and a level of trust in its industry to do the right thing because "Safety" is in everyones interest. The other with massive volumes of home grown hillbilly regulations that defy logic, are designed to confuse and are administered with an ethos that all in the industry are there with criminal intent and only the heavy hand of them as a police force can contain them.
Two first world countries, one who recognises that real expertise lies within industry, consults and acts on industry advice, the other who arrogantly considers they are the font of all knowledge and pays lip service to industry advice.
Two first world countries, one of which recognises that regulation alone cannot achieve better safety outcomes, they choose to mentor and educate industry which has and is achieving better safety statistics year on year. The other who treats industry with contempt, belittling complaints and advice, branding dissenters as the "Ills of Society" or their advice as merely "opinions", and sets their minions loose to wreak havoc, in the process their efforts doing nothing to improve safety and brings an industry to its knees.
Two first world counties, one who's industry as illustrated below is a valuable contributor to its economy, the other withering on the vine, its potential wasted, drowning in a myasma of red tape and political indifference
Know The Facts About Private Jets Before You Bash Them
Too often private aviation is an easy target for folks who want to bash the super rich, global CEOs or what they perceive as industries that are damaging the environment. Private jet users are of course an easy target, even though many of the same people who trash the industry use private aircraft, at least when they help them achieve their business objectives, which is the reason most people access private aviation.
Last month, 23 business aircraft arrived at Geneva Airport for the annual European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (EBACE) using sustainable alternative fuels, and key players such as Gulfstream have been testing them for close to a decade.
Of course, the drive towards reducing carbon emissions is just one aspect of the industry that its detractors aren’t aware of or choose to overlook as it doesn’t seem to fit with their narrative.
No Plane, No Gain, an advocacy group supported by the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) and General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA), provides data showing a multitude of ways the industry is an integral engine to the economy, which I am highlighting below:
- Business aviation supports more than one million U.S. jobs
- The industry generates over $200 billion in economic activity each year
- Private jets can access over 5,000 airports in the U.S. compared to only around 500 served by the airlines, one reason politicians use them. They are an efficient way to conduct business. You can visit three or four places in a day, a trip that might take an entire week using the airlines.
- 42% of business jet flights are to places with little or no airline service, and 80% of flights are into airports in small towns and communities. - The same 42% of business aviation missions involve multiple destinations
- A single private jet can bring $2.5 million in economic benefit to the airport and community where it’s based.
- While the popular stereotype is fat cat CEOs flying on large cabin, luxurious private jets, 50% of the business aircraft fleet is turboprops and smaller jets, and in fact, top management is onboard less than 50% of the time.
- In fact, key reasons companies use private jets are employee time savings, increased productivity, protection of intellectual property and improved customer service, often flying replacement parts, including medical devices on an emergency basis, sometimes cutting hours off the time it takes the customer to restore service, or in the case of doctors, begin a life saving procedure.
- What’s more, there are over 15,000 business aircraft flights per year for humanitarian reasons, and in the past year, 38% of private jet pilots say they have flown humanitarian missions. Groups like Corporate Angel Network match patients who need specialized treatment with companies that donate seats on their flights to get those patients to their needed medical care. Some of the companies involved include American Express, BASF, Caterpillar, Dow, Flexjet, Geico, General Dynamics, Hertz, Honeywell, Home Depot, Intel, Lilly, Meredith, Nestle Purina, NetJets, P&G, Target, Valero and Verizon.
While detractors position private aviation as excess, the facts tell another story. Companies that use private aviation outperform non-users by 23% in revenue growth and 95 of Fortune magazine’s “100 Best Places to Work” companies use business aircraft. One last fact. It’s not just big companies that use private jets to make their business more efficient, 57% of business aviation users have under 500 employees.
The next time a pundit or politician talks about how private jets are wasteful, ask if they know how many jobs are connected to private aviation and how much the industry brings to the economy?
If you want two local market examples, Teterboro Airport in northern New Jersey supports more than 14,900 jobs paying $868 million in annual wages and inputs more than $2.3 billion into the local economy. Van Nuys Airport, in Los Angeles, generates $295 million in local, state and federal tax revenue annually. In other words, business aviation works for the economy, and not just for the folks flying on them.
Compare the pair,
Two first world countries, one with a regulator that fosters and promotes, the other with a corrupt, authoritarian regulator who trashes and burns.
Two alleged first world countries, one with clear concise regulations, administered with a soft hand and a level of trust in its industry to do the right thing because "Safety" is in everyones interest. The other with massive volumes of home grown hillbilly regulations that defy logic, are designed to confuse and are administered with an ethos that all in the industry are there with criminal intent and only the heavy hand of them as a police force can contain them.
Two first world countries, one who recognises that real expertise lies within industry, consults and acts on industry advice, the other who arrogantly considers they are the font of all knowledge and pays lip service to industry advice.
Two first world countries, one of which recognises that regulation alone cannot achieve better safety outcomes, they choose to mentor and educate industry which has and is achieving better safety statistics year on year. The other who treats industry with contempt, belittling complaints and advice, branding dissenters as the "Ills of Society" or their advice as merely "opinions", and sets their minions loose to wreak havoc, in the process their efforts doing nothing to improve safety and brings an industry to its knees.
Two first world counties, one who's industry as illustrated below is a valuable contributor to its economy, the other withering on the vine, its potential wasted, drowning in a myasma of red tape and political indifference
Know The Facts About Private Jets Before You Bash Them
Too often private aviation is an easy target for folks who want to bash the super rich, global CEOs or what they perceive as industries that are damaging the environment. Private jet users are of course an easy target, even though many of the same people who trash the industry use private aircraft, at least when they help them achieve their business objectives, which is the reason most people access private aviation.
Last month, 23 business aircraft arrived at Geneva Airport for the annual European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (EBACE) using sustainable alternative fuels, and key players such as Gulfstream have been testing them for close to a decade.
Of course, the drive towards reducing carbon emissions is just one aspect of the industry that its detractors aren’t aware of or choose to overlook as it doesn’t seem to fit with their narrative.
No Plane, No Gain, an advocacy group supported by the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) and General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA), provides data showing a multitude of ways the industry is an integral engine to the economy, which I am highlighting below:
- Business aviation supports more than one million U.S. jobs
- The industry generates over $200 billion in economic activity each year
- Private jets can access over 5,000 airports in the U.S. compared to only around 500 served by the airlines, one reason politicians use them. They are an efficient way to conduct business. You can visit three or four places in a day, a trip that might take an entire week using the airlines.
- 42% of business jet flights are to places with little or no airline service, and 80% of flights are into airports in small towns and communities. - The same 42% of business aviation missions involve multiple destinations
- A single private jet can bring $2.5 million in economic benefit to the airport and community where it’s based.
- While the popular stereotype is fat cat CEOs flying on large cabin, luxurious private jets, 50% of the business aircraft fleet is turboprops and smaller jets, and in fact, top management is onboard less than 50% of the time.
- In fact, key reasons companies use private jets are employee time savings, increased productivity, protection of intellectual property and improved customer service, often flying replacement parts, including medical devices on an emergency basis, sometimes cutting hours off the time it takes the customer to restore service, or in the case of doctors, begin a life saving procedure.
- What’s more, there are over 15,000 business aircraft flights per year for humanitarian reasons, and in the past year, 38% of private jet pilots say they have flown humanitarian missions. Groups like Corporate Angel Network match patients who need specialized treatment with companies that donate seats on their flights to get those patients to their needed medical care. Some of the companies involved include American Express, BASF, Caterpillar, Dow, Flexjet, Geico, General Dynamics, Hertz, Honeywell, Home Depot, Intel, Lilly, Meredith, Nestle Purina, NetJets, P&G, Target, Valero and Verizon.
While detractors position private aviation as excess, the facts tell another story. Companies that use private aviation outperform non-users by 23% in revenue growth and 95 of Fortune magazine’s “100 Best Places to Work” companies use business aircraft. One last fact. It’s not just big companies that use private jets to make their business more efficient, 57% of business aviation users have under 500 employees.
The next time a pundit or politician talks about how private jets are wasteful, ask if they know how many jobs are connected to private aviation and how much the industry brings to the economy?
If you want two local market examples, Teterboro Airport in northern New Jersey supports more than 14,900 jobs paying $868 million in annual wages and inputs more than $2.3 billion into the local economy. Van Nuys Airport, in Los Angeles, generates $295 million in local, state and federal tax revenue annually. In other words, business aviation works for the economy, and not just for the folks flying on them.