Business and Corporate Aviation Management On-Demand Air Travel

Excerpts from Flight Safety Digest

Although they provide safe and reliable public transportation, airlines can be inconvenient for business travel involving an organization's key personnel. ...

Business aviation -- whether in the form of chartered aircraft, fractional aircraft ownership or full aircraft ownership -- is widely established as an answer to the requirements of many companies.

This book, says the author, was written for two audiences: "Individuals...[and] flight department managers, their bosses and those who would become flight department managers." ...

...experience as a pilot does not necessarily prepare a person for management ... Business and Corporate Aviation Management is intended to help overcome such a knowledge gap. ...

Chapters discuss selecting from the options in business air transportation modes; how to begin the various types of business aviation operations; planning, administrative, human resources and financial aspects of management; the flight department manager as a business executive; day-to-day operations; maintenance; and safety. A section is devoted to the small flight department that operates one aircraft or two aircraft...Sheehan, John J. is the author of 'Business and Corporate Aviation Management On-Demand Air Travel', published 2003 under ISBN 9780071412278 and ISBN 0071412271.