Craig's Blog of Destiny

Last week I had the opportunity to travel on our corporate jet.  It was a short flight, only from Seattle to Portland.  The first picture is of the plane, Sandra Perez, Regional Marketing Manager is to the front, on the left is Marc Lower, Regional Vice President of Sales. Below is a picture of me on the plane. 

Some observations:

The corporate jet was relatively small:  It had seating for 8 (+ the pilot and copilot) configured as one seat on each side of the plane for four rows.  And the seats were nice leather seats, but not terribly roomy.  The first class seats on commercial airlines are bigger and more comfortable.  We filled all eight seats, and there was barely room for our luggage – which was stowed in a compartment on one side of the plane, between the passengers and the pilots.  It was a real challenge getting everything in there.

A plane ride is a plane ride:  There didn’t seem to be much difference between the ride of the small jet and commercial airliners.  The most noticeable was the acceleration, when the jet starts off down the runway; it really picks up speed in a hurry.  The force of the acceleration is much more noticeable in the small jet than the big airliners.

The best part about flying the corporate jet hasn’t got anything to do with the plane or the flying:  The best part is the boarding and disembarking.  Our car took us right up to the plane, no check in, no security id checks, no unpacking and repacking (undressing and dressing) at the x-ray machines, no lining up at the gate to get in early enough to use the overheads.  Just drive right to the plane and climb aboard.  Once we had landed, we had only a short 10 foot trek to the waiting car.  Now that’s the way to travel.