Being Smart, Being Responsible and Making the Business Case for Corporate Aircraft Ownership and Utilization
Consider This…
“As if the economy were not enough business aviation becomes a scapegoat for executive excess.”
March 2, 2009, Aviation Week & Space Technology
“General Motors was forced to terminate 49 employees from its now-eliminated corporate air operations department as one of the terms for winning emergency funding from Congress.”
Feb. 17, 2009, AOPA Online
About the Event:
Never before has corporate and business aviation faced a challenge the likes of which it is now facing. Under unrelenting scrutiny from legislators and the media; the very survival of corporate and business aviation is on the line. In response to this paramount challenge, AVIATION WEEK Management Forums is pleased to presentDemonstrating & Quantifying the Value of Business Aviation; a first of its kind event focused exclusively on developing a comprehensive action plan designed to combat the backlash against corporate aviation and provide viable tools, processes and strategies to effectively quantify and demonstrate the value of corporate and business aviation.
Discussion Points:
During this invigorating, information exchange and peer-to-networking event we will tackle the pertinent challenges currently impacting corporate, business and private aviation with regard to:
- Viable metrics to quantify and demonstrate the value of business aviation and corporate aircraft ownership and utilization
- Actionable strategies for dispelling public misperceptions and inaccuracies regarding business aviation and corporate aircraft utilization
- Making the business case for justifying the existence of your flight department to executive management and your board of directors
- Overcoming the “fear factor” of flying today via corporate aircraft
- Ethics and responsibility within corporate aviation
- Understanding the political forces at work in this debate and how the industry can best position itself to achieve long-term success
About AVIATION WEEK Management Forums
AVIATION WEEK Management Forums are designed to provide you with — not only the latest, best practices, innovations and tactical processes — but a highly interactive information exchange and networking event designed to allow both attendees and speakers to benchmark processes, exchange best practices and forge valuable new relationships that will last long after the forum itself has concluded.
