Travel$ense User's Guide (PDF, 139 MB) - NBAA

146TRAVEL$ENSEwhich delayed the arrival of an incoming airplane from San Francisco to Dallasto New Orleans.IMPROVED OPERATIONAL RELIABILITYA user survey of major business aircraft operations found that 61 percent ofthe 141 users interviewed believed, without prompting, that business aircraft’soperational flexibility represented a great advantage to the company’s business.Operational flexibility of business aircraft results from several circumstances.• Departure and arrival times can be scheduled, or rescheduled dynamically,in accordance with business requirements. Local weather and otherconditions can be such that the ability to choose an airport destination canavoid hours of delay – or cancellation.• Destination airports can be optimized according to the business traveler’sultimate destination.• Destination airports can be changed, when such change will allow avoidingweather or other conditions causing delays at the originally intendeddestination airport.GROUND TIME SAVINGSThere are several attributes of business aircraft use that reduce the groundtime associated with air travel in comparison to scheduled airline service. Theseinclude closer proximity of the departure airport to the traveler’s origin andthe availability of an arrival airport much closer to the destination than thescheduled service airport. Also there is closer parking, less time for check-inand boarding procedures, faster or no baggage checking and reclaimingoperations, and ready availability of ground transportation on arrival.In most large metropolitan areas, business aircraft can choose among severalairports that are not available to the scheduled airlines. One or more of thesealternate airports are commonly used by the majority of business aircraftoperators in the region, and in most instances are chosen for their moreefficient location to the user’s office. Such airports typically offer closer andmore available parking, more rapid boarding, quicker security inspection andmuch shorter walking distances than a major airline terminal.There are several time elements time associated with airline travel.• Drive from home/site/office to airport• Airport arrival, parking or rental car return, shuttle or walk toticket/baggage check-in counter• Check-in counter to security barrierCopyright © 1999, National Business Aviation Association, Inc.