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From: rlr@avsdS.UUCP (Rhode L. Roberts)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: Employee flying on company business
Message-ID: <44@avsdS.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Jun-85 13:03:42 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  4 13:03:42 1985
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Organization: Ampex Audio-Video Engineering, Redwood City, CA
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> > 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.
	
	No need to go into the *un-informed* speech here,
	a simple look at the AOPA FACTS CARD will blow
	both of those wives tales away.
> 
> 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.
	
	There are somewhere's near 14000 airports in the USA, of
	which the Major Air Lines serve approx. 800.
	The FAA imposes strict maintinace rules for ANY plane that
	utilizes the AIR SPACE SYSTEM, not to mention the pilots.

R. Roberts
Ampex Corp.
Redwood City, Ca.