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Orval Fairbairn <orfairbairn@earthlink.net> writes:

> In article <1190075103.538193.94280@50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com>,
>  hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> 
> > On Sep 15, 8:20 pm, Hatunen <hatu...@cox.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > But the price for such will be discouraging.
> > 
> > Not necessarily.  It depends on the market being served, both in terms
> > of alternative travel modes and hotel/motel accomodations.  In some
> > markets hotels are relatively cheap, in others rather expensive even
> > for a basic room.
> > 
> > Many business travelers are avoiding the horrors of commercial service
> > and going to private jets.  The problem is that there's no spare
> > capacity at major airports to support these jets.  Taxpayers are not
> > gonna be too thrilled to support airports (like Teterboro in NJ which
> > is controversial) that support mostly elite business traffic.  The
> > costs of operating a private jetport aren't cheap, especially in the
> > day of high land values.  Many private airports have been turned into
> > malls and developments due to high land value.
> > 
> > The bottom line is that such private elite jet service will become
> > very expensive due to scarcity of appropriate airports.  If a business
> > person still has a two hour ground trip from the airport to origin or
> > destination or worse both, that's extra time to the journey.  (Getting
> > to Teterboro from Manhattan is murder).
> 
> There is a solution:
> 
> Companies can leave the large cities and establish themselves in 
> less-dense areas, where they can use small airports to get to other 
> destinations. There is really no good reason for a company to set up in 
> large urban areas.

Only that's where your customers are and that's where your prospective
employees are.  E-mail is no substitute for face-to-face meetings.

-- Patrick