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Old Wed, February 18th, 2009, 12:29 AM
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If the CEOs of the Big 3 had flown coach in a overbooked plane, they could have said they got to Washington by the cheapest route. They actually spent more than that, in terms of fuel used per passenger, by driving their little "economy" vehicles on the second visit.

- Jack
On one hand, a reasonable case has been made for executives flying on private Gulfstreams. The logic being that if you have somebody who gets paid a couple of million a year, you don't want to waste a second of that expensive time by having the guy spend an hour or two standing in line at the airport on both ends, not being able to use the laptop, or to rearrange meetings and such to fit into commercial air schedules. So if CEO's productive time cost is more than the cost of piloting, leasing, fueling and maintaining a private jet, it might appear to work on paper.

But, Detroit really blew it on their trips to Congress. If they would have shown up in their Gulfstreams with actual bulletproof costs detailing how the private jets were supplying value to the shareholders, they might have avoided the hammering they got and deserved. Likewise on the ploy of showing up in the little economy cars the second time.

Of course, after the theater of arriving in the eco-cars, I'm sure they ate at Hometown Buffet and spent the night at a Motel-6 to save even more of our money :bluewink:
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