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The birth of business jets dovetailed the birth of commercial jets. As airlines grew in popularity and size, Pan Am’s founder, Juan Trippe, an innovator in many aspects of commercial aviation, had his sights set on the travelers not on his planes … those flying private planes.   In the early 1960s Juan Trippe became [...]

The costs of owing and operating a private jet, or corporate jet, are extensive. Private jets are not only costly to purchase or lease, but these aircraft also incur the costs of servicing parking, staffing, fuel, landing fees, etc, are all expensive … and now Italy plans to make it prohibitively more expensive for those [...]

Many times in my life my father encouraged me to read Dale Carnegie’s “How To Win Friends and Influence People,” and while I’ve never quite finished the book, many of the basic principals of the book have carried over to building corporate social media engagement.   Recently the Twitter tweets of a corporate jet service [...]

More often that not my iPhone Apps of the Week are for the every day traveller and 99% of the business road warriors … but this week’s iPhone App of the Week is for the ‘elite.’ This week’s iPhone App of the Week is Flight Options. Flight Options is a private jet leasing and fractional [...]

Web: www.thetravelstrategist.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 14/07/2009 – Today’s Flying With Fish Post Has Flown Over To Aviation Week… Today’s Flying With Fish can be found over at Aviation Week. While Benet Wilson, Aviation Week’s Online Managing Editor for Business Aviation, is away on a much-deserved vacation I was asked to write a Guest Post for [...]