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Personal safety and industrial security often are critical motivators favoring business aircraft use.

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Personal safety takes on additional dimensions in certain international environments. Security and maintenance personnel routinely accompany some flights to certain countries.

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The privacy afforded by business aircraft can shield passengers from uncontrolled public exposure. The ability to conduct business without being scrutinized by fellow passengers – limiting possible industrial espionage – is critical.

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The anonymity afforded by business aircraft – travel is less visible than it would be through the use of public air carrier airport terminals – also can aid industrial security.

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The content of all baggage and cargo is known and controlled.

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Depending on the weather (including acute winter weather), flying is definitely safer than driving on icy and snowy roads.

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Many companies sponsor yearly safety audits of their flight departments.

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For these and other reasons, by corporate policy, some senior managers only can fly aboard company aircraft.

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Business aircraft routinely are used in international settings because of foreign airline safety and security concerns. 

Multiple Uses

Jack of All Trades

And then there are those companies that use their aircraft for just about everything. Yates Petroleum, of Artesia, New Mexico, is one of those.

Have you ever seen an old pickup  Yates is an independent oil explo- Randy Patterson is corporate 
parked over in the corner at some  ration and production company. The  secretary for Yates. “We’re pretty active 
place, the truck everybody uses for  aircraft is used for taking senior man- in this town and in our industry. We’re 
everything, that always seems to have  agers to Houston or Denver (below)  involved in dozens of trade association 
the keys in the ignition, ready to go;  for meetings with oil company execu- meetings and conferences every year, 
nothing fancy certainly, but serviceable?  tives. Or to move engineers and field  where we have both employees and 
Out in the desert of New Mexico,  representatives to Wyoming for field  principals go and participate,” he says. 
a long way from most other places,  inspections. Or to take engineers or  The airplane increases what Yates 
is a small airport and a nice hangar.  production people if there’s a problem  is able to do quickly. “We’ve had 
In it (sometimes) is one of the most  with a well, taking them as soon as  important contracts that had to be 
versatile business aircraft ever built.  they can as close as they can so they  signed. You get on the airplane with 
　
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