[Doofer]

Public relations move is all.

[dr_who]

How long do you think it will take them to mull the proposed action properly?

[SERKIT]

eBay?

[dr_who]

You think the Dems will bail them out next January, so that they can buy newer model corporate jets?

[ken21]

>Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat from Nevada, said in Washington that “these guys flying in their big corporate jets doesn’t send a good message to people in Searchlight, Nev., or Las Vegas or Reno or anyplace in this country.”<

what grammar!

[river rat]

Ford still haven’t stopped dumping cash into Gay Activist causes.....

I’m still waiting hear why that is a more fiduciarily responsible use of cash than Tooling, Design or Research...

[trumandogz]

Make them drive a 1972 Ford Pinto.

[hellbender]

Congress thinks it's entitled to criticize Ford for taking junkets by jet? Seems the pot is calling the kettle black again.

[KarlInOhio]

I didn't like their fancy, expensive suits. I want all car executives wearing sackcloth and ashes until they stop begging for my money. Maybe they can also ring a bell and announce "unclean, unclean" so that people can avoid them.< /almost sarcasm>

[wastedyears]

They should do a Palin and sell one or two on eBay.

[DemonDeac]

It is just a PR move. The amount they’d raise would be a drop in the bucket.

[tcrlaf]

Chrysler spun off thier Corporate Av unit off ten years ago as “Pentastar Aviation”. I used to work for them.

While the media gets caught up in the “Executive Perks” BS, they forget to mention that GM, Ford, and HONDA all run large corpjet operations as basicly a scheduled airline, from the HQ to the outlying plants in the US and abroad, running everything from Employees going to/from training to boxes of widgets needed to keep a line running in Rockford, or such.

In many cases, it’s EASIER, CHEAPER, and exposes the company to less liability, to run thier own scheduled services to places like Kokomo, Indiana, or Bowling Green Kentucky to Detroit, than it is use someimes unreliable commercial service.

And while Reid whines about those CEOS coming to Washington on a BBJ, he says NOTHING about his own use of those same corporate jets when he and his fellow DEMS use them!!

[stylin19a]

Who is left that will buy the jets ?

Just like a bailout..if they get the bailout and continue to make cars, who is going to buy the cars ?

[jws3sticks]

It’s easy. Have a flunky drive a hybrid to Baltimore, have the CEO fly into BWI on the corporate jets, deplane, get in the car and drive, with much fanfare into WDC for the next hearing. Simple.

[GAB-1955]

It's a start. Unisys is also selling its corporate jet.