Posted by William Herp on Fri, Apr 12, 2013 It’s understandable that almost no one pays attention to flight attendants’ pre-flight safety briefings and demonstrations. We’ve all seen it a hundred times before and we pretty much already know where the emergency exits are. And we’ve been buckling seat belts in cars and planes since …
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Posted by William Herp on Thu, Feb 28, 2013 I left the house one morning around 7:15, just after breakfast and returned home that evening around 6:30 for dinner with family. Pretty normal, right? Not if you knew what transpired during those 11-plus hours. And the story of that illustrates the value of my company, …
Posted by William Herp on Thu, Feb 28, 2013 Playing pretend at the Entrepreneur’s Organization conference in Park City, Utah. The same conference that USAirways stiffed me coming home from
Posted by William Herp on Fri, Feb 22, 2013 I’d just begun to put my shoes back on after passing through the time-wasting, privacy-violating ordeal of a TSA airport screening at Salt Lake City, Utah, when my phone began to ring. It wasn’t good news. I’d traveled on a Wednesday to Park City, a beautiful ski resort …
Posted by William Herp on Wed, Feb 13, 2013 Willie Sutton, famous as one of America’s most accomplished bank robbers during those portions of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s when he was not in jail for, what else, bank robbery, once was asked, “Willie, why do you rob banks?” His famous, and elegantly simple answer …
We were right. That’s the message I took from the recent announcement by a company that competed – at least in theory – with my company, Linear Air. JetSuite is a private aviation company based at John Wayne Airport in affluent Orange County, California. It launched service about four years ago, flying four-passenger Embraer Phenom 100 jets in …
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Video taken from pre-flight preparation on a Cirrus SR-22 at one of our home bases – Westchester County Airport (HPN) in White Plains, New York.
Aviation is the safest mode of transportation. Full Stop. Now, if you’ve been reading (and believing?) the headlines and newspaper stories, or listening to the breathless TV reports about the problems with Boeing’s cutting edge new widebody, the 787 Dreamliner, you might find my assertion about aviation safety to be incongruous. But as the sage philosopher, Bill Murray, so eloquently …
When we launched Linear Air nine years ago as an air-taxi service providing fast, safe, and affordable on-demand air travel from the airport nearest your home or office like Hanscom Field outside Boston and White Plains/Westchester and Teterboro Airports in the NYC area, I never thought I’d be hiring gray-haired pilots. Since the dawn of …
