Quote Originally Posted by Bruno View Post
EDIT: And if they really cared about being on time for that hearing, they could have
a) taken the same plane
b) done what I do if I have to be somewhere really on time: leave the evening before and spend the night in a hotel.
Your other points may be valid. but again the airplane thing is not that simple.

a) Last thing you do is put all those guys on the same plane. Companies that size don't even put more than a couple of key executives on the same plane. ...Plane goes down, company is toast or takes a huge hit. Then there is security.

b) Security, and time again. It's not just time shifting the flight. With the private jet you can work up until 15 minutes before you have to leave (and departure time is whenever you're ready). When you get there you go straight from the plane into the meeting.

There is something to it but it's just not that cut and dried.

(haha, not really related but a couple of years ago the President came to talk to John Chambers at Cisco Systems. They didn't even land at at the airforce base 15 minutes away. They landed in the parking lot next to the friggin building where the meeting was at.)