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 …
I like disruptive innovation. If you know anything about me, that’s probably obvious. I’m a serial entrepreneur and in each of my efforts, I’ve sought to bring new technologies and, to use the cliché, out-of-the-box thinking as solutions to problems caused, or left unresolved by conventional thinking and out-of-date business models. Linear Air, the company I …
Is there really such a thing as coincidence? You could debate that question on several levels, I suppose, from the philosophical to the mathematical, and from the theological to the pragmatic. But in the (mostly) rational world of business I don’t believe there really are coincidences. Those things that commonly get attributed to coincidence usually …
Posted by William Herp on Wed, Jan 02, 2013 “Nothing focuses the mind like a hanging.” That famous, wry quotation is attributed to Samuel Johnson, an 18th Century English poet, critic and thinker who, it is said, is the second-most quoted writer in the English language, behind only Shakespeare. But it just as easily could …
