Truth be told, these CEOs can't trust the commercial aviation industry to get them there on time or at a specific time. And their time is money.
What they will do is purchase the services of NetJets or the like.
Don't fall for the class warfare stuff.
If your begging the federal government for MY tax dollars you should be crawling on your hands and knees from detroit to capitol hill.
“I’m going to guess that they weren’t private jets. Company owned, yes.”
Well I think that the was the point...the negative perception it evoked that they arrived on two company owned jets. They went to DC to ask for money yet has jet airplanes are their disposal?
I suppose I could accept that. Had these aspiring welfare queens driven to DC in one of their poorly-built, junky vehicles they might not have made it.
Re: Truth be told, these CEOs can’t trust the commercial aviation industry to get them there on time or at a specific time
No. Truth be told, these CEO’s feel entitled to take whatever they can.
Class warfare? We have a bunch of people who have redefined their consumption as production, and the cost of their consumption as business expenses. And the percs are overseen by company directors who are feeding at the same trough.
Business executives are getting the bad press for this now, but top officials at universities and foundations are in it too. Likewise the pols.
Too bad. Tell them to use a telephone, or take a Greyhound to their meetings.
In addition, elected government officials at all levels should be paid minimum wage for the honor of serving. We'll take care of their meals, and boarding. They can sleep in small college type dorms, and a tax paid Econo-van will pick them up and take them to and from the office. No limos, no jets.
We'll be sure to randomly drug test politicians at all levels, and conduct on-going investigations into their personal finances, just to keep them honest.
Truth be told, companies that are hemorrhaging cash need to make sacrifices to survive. That includes at the executive level. Taking the company jet to go beg for money is beyond the pale. Northworst Airlines hubs out of Detroit, so getting a first class nonstop to IAD or DCA is not an issue.
Executives don't answer their own phones or read their own mail. There are CrackBerries and laptops for these clowns to whatever crisis that can't be resolved by anyone but the CEO.
These guys are arrogant. The rules that all of their employees follow don't apply to them. It's the same attitude that Congress has.
It reminds me of Jimmy Carter carrying his own empty garment bag.
IMO, this is not a class warfare issue. It's about leadership, something which is sorely lacking in Detroit.
When times are tough, management needs to lead by setting the right example. A brand new butterbar knows more about leadership than these Big 3 Auto CEO's...combined.
Perhaps they should read how Harley Davidson got themselves out of their fix two decades ago.
Wal-Mart executives fly coach and share cheap hotel rooms.
I don’t have a problem with anyone, exec or not, taking a chartered plane anywhere, PROVIDED THEY CAN AFFORD IT.
These beggars are begging ME for MY money, and *I* do not fly on chartered planes, and my times is money too!
Then they should look into tele-conferencing.