Corporate Aviation

Some differences of corporate careers as compared to the airlines is that it seems like you become more diverse in the type of aircraft you fly, no structured schedule, and upgrade faster. As compared to the airlines where you only fly one type of aircraft with possible switching to another type of aircraft if there are positions, have a structured schedule and the airlines promise that you will be upgraded in a certain amount of time, but it seems to never work out like that. So just going off of these basic differences I would chose a career in the corporate field.

 

Do corporations need their own private planes to travel around? There are people who don’t think that the corporations should and they should travel like the rest of the general public. I think the images of the auto industry CEOs showing up to Washington D.C. asking for money to bail them out of bankruptcy didn’t help this issue. However, the corporations actually save money by having their own planes, because they can go to airports of their choosing as long as the aircraft can land and takeoff; and not just where the airlines go. And in the business world TIME is MONEY. So if the corporation’s management can get to more places without having to go through security or waiting during a layover than they are saving money. I think that the corporations are saving money by having their own planes.

 

McDonald’s back in 2012 was rated the best flight department. The department at that time was operating a Bombardier Global 6000 and Challenger 300 to get their executives around the globe in a safe, secure, and efficient manner. They were scheduled to replace the Challenger 600 with a Challenger 605 later that year. The headquarters is based in Oak Brook, IL. They have subteams that are responsible for each aircraft. The McDonald’s pilots log an average of 30-35 flight hours and 3-5 overnight trips per month. And most of the trips are overseas.

 

http://www.propilotmag.com/archives/2012/December%2012/A2_McDonalds_p1.html