John Vislosky, a managing director at the Korn Ferry executive search firm in Manhattan, gives this example: "There was a president-level search for a new clicks-and-mortar e-commerce division," he said.
Even so, American companies will continue to use private jets for ferrying executives whose time is valuable, said Robert W. Mann Jr., an airline industry analyst in Port Washington, N.Y.
Helicopters ferrying executives to work in the glimmering high-rises of the Avenida Paulista crisscross the sky above shanties rank with the stench of sewage.
And it has rendered largely useless the helicopters that many big companies keep for ferrying executives from urban meetings to suburban outposts and back.
The company plane that ferries executives, on the other hand, has looser rules; the owner is supposed to know more about safety, and to take on more responsibility.
And the conference was "carbon neutral": the planetary debt incurred by ferrying oil executives by helicopter was wiped clean, apparently, by planting some trees in Mexico.
As part of a Defense Department program that ferries corporate executives to observe reservists in training, he invited Mr. Brinkman to go to Bosnia for the July 4 weekend to watch American peacekeepers in action.
On Sunday, the ship idled about 10 miles off the coast of Long Island, while the crew spent the day ferrying business executives, military officers and defense contractors on board by helicopter.
P&O Ferries' chief executive, Helen Deeble, pointed out that P&O employed thousands of people on both sides of the Channel, adding: "This damaging and dangerous industrial action is now putting those jobs at risk".
Alexeyev became widely known for his rap "Mercedes S666," in which he expressed his outrage at yet another politicized incident on the Moscow roads — a car ferrying an executive for a major Russian oil concern, Lukoil, smashed into a much smaller private car, killing two women.
