and here was the scenario. One team, 12 members, needed to be in Philadelphia, then Wichita, then Kentucky and they wanted to do this in one day...max 2.
The cost of the charter made the one day trip possible when commercial could not (connection, then connection made one day impossible).
The saved time and hotel expense in addition to the 12 open-jay multi-airline itineraries (essentially all at full coach when it was expensive) made the cost of charter viable.
We chartered the jet.
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I also chartered a jet to tranfer 12 executives to Paris and 12 back. First class airfare would have been 72k. Our corp at the time only allowed business class so commercial would have been 48k. Charter cost, 85k. It would have taken alot of hours for these 200k types to make up the nearly 40000 difference. Why did we charter? Chairman was one of the execs.