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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: Employee flying on company business
Message-ID: <3775@alice.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 31-May-85 09:52:41 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 31 09:52:41 1985
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Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill
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> Personally, if I owned a company, I would not permit private flying
> on company business.  If the company is going to pay to send you
> somewhere, there must be some important reason.  Airlines are far more
> a "sure" thing in getting you there on time.  And far more reliable in
> terms of returning a valued employee alive and well and ready to
> continue his vital role in the company.  (If I owned a company, I
> wouldn't hire anyone I didn't consider to be valuable :-)

If I owned a company, I would take the view that an employee
who wishes to get from point A to point B for business purposes
can go whichever way is most convenient, with the understanding that
the risk for all forms of travel is on the employee.  This is similar
to the arrangement that currently exists at AT&T Bell Laboratories
for people who want to use their own cars for business travel: the
employee is reimbursed for mileage, and is expected to accept the
risk, and carry insurance against, anything that might happen enroute.
If your car gets totaled on the way to a meeting, that is your problem.
(unfortunately, they do not make the logical extension of this
sensible attitude to private airplanes, but that's a different story)

The airlines are not always a "sure" thing -- sometimes they don't
fly where you want to go, and some people don't want to do business
with them.