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The versatility of aircraft makes them ideally suited to tackle multiple missions.
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Flights with separate missions per passenger are common.
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The value-added contributions of business aircraft are limited chiefly by management’s imagination and skill at integrating their potential with the organization’s goals and objectives. This is most effectively realized through deliberate, in-depth consideration.
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Additional Utilization Strategies
Several additional utilization strategies not specifically illustrated on the previ ous pages also merit consideration. These include:
Priority Cargo, Parts, Mail
A practice of immense potential and often uncounted value. Many companies use aircraft to carry high value cargo, replacement or spare parts, or inter-office mail. This practice is common and often unquantified, but of substantial commercial value in displaced overnight delivery charges. Any material which cannot practically be moved by conventional shippers due to size, weight, susceptibility to damage or other physical limitations, and particularly those that need to be delivered within hours, often are best transported via business aircraft.
Projects
Usually infrequent or “one shot” uses, such as, for instance, multi-location advertising photography “shoots” involving a multi-disciplined team of experts. The combination of both personnel and an unusually large amount of project-specific equipment can trigger business aircraft use as the most efficient and cost effective travel alternative, specifically for transporting delicate equipment of extreme value to the project.
Utilitarian
The use of business aircraft as a convertible platform useful for: mapping; aerial surveys, inspections and photography; cattle ranching and herding; flying labs useful for air borne experiments or other research and development; educational labs; surveillance; power line and pipe line patrols, in addition to other uses.
Public, Press and Investor Relations
Progressive companies often manage opportunities to project a positive corporate image using business air craft, either as a symbol of efficiency or as simple transportation to facilities or events to further this purpose. Publicity generated by the use of air craft for noble purposes, such as the rapid delivery of relief supplies after a natural disaster, can be of substantial public relations benefit.
Personal Travel
For an employee’s non-business related personal travel. Although the use of business aircraft for personal travel is comparatively rare and specifically prohibited at many companies, other companies use the availability of per sonal travel as a unique contractually-defined benefit useful to attract and retain high value employees. Specific tax regulations apply to this use. Further information on these regulations may be found at www.nbaa.org/taxes. 中國航空網 www.k6050.com 航空翻譯 www.aviation.cn 本文鏈接地址：Business Aircraft Utilization Strategies 公務機使用策略(34)
