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To view this page ensure that Adobe Flash Player version 9.0.124 or greater is installed. Survey Results For this study, we conducted surveys of SMEs at the Experimental Aircraft Association’s AirVenture 2010 in Oshkosh and the NBAA Business Aviation Regional Forum in Chicago. In addition, NBAA electronically surveyed representatives with the Association’s Member Companies. From our surveys, we learned that the SME’s top executive is often the pilot and tends to make the business decisions regarding business aircraft usage. Overwhelmingly, these executives found business aviation to provide a competitive advantage in providing highly responsive service to customers. Some told us that the use of business aircraft increased the productivity of their business executives by facilitating meetings in multiple locations in the course of one business day. As Ronald Fedrick, president of Nova Group, a Department of Defense contractor put it, “2010 will be the best year in our 34-year-history. It may not be completely due to our aircraft, but it sure has helped.” The SMEs in our study generally operated just one or two aircraft, which correlated well with the 2009 Harris Survey5 conducted on behalf of NBAA and GAMA. More than half of the flights had one or two passengers, in addition to the pilot. In addition, the SMEs in our study predominately use corporate jets. Our study also found that SMEs use business aircraft to access destinations that were not conveniently served by commercial airlines. According to the FAA, general aviation represents less than four percent of total operations at the nation’s top ten commercial airports. The executives and sales teams for these companies needed to get to customers and vendors in remote geographic locations that were not served by scheduled commercial airlines. As Dan Igoe, Managing Partner of the advertising firm Pure Brand Communications stated, “My aircraft provide access to clients in areas not easily served by commercial aviation or where it is not practical to use commercial air service.” 中国公务机网 www.gongwuji.com 公务机翻译 www.aviation.cn 本文链接地址：BUSINESS AVIATION AN ENTERPRISE VALUE PERSPECTIVE 2005 - 2010(18) |
