Big publicly held companies are still wary of using corporate jets, even if there is a clear economic justification for, say, flying a group of executives or technicians to places not well served by commercial airlines on trips where time is of the essence.
"I was in the air when it happened, flying a group of pilgrims returning from Jeddah to Manchester," he recalls.
Last month, it flew a group of journalists, including the Guardian, in a helicopter over the Gulf of Mexico.
In one case it flew a group to Charleston, W.Va., instead of Charleston, S.C., which was expecting the plane.
Last week we flew a group to St Lucia, others want to go to Bali or Thailand and, of course, London to Moscow is always popular".
On Sunday, Mr. Renz's company flew a group of 14 Muslims, dressed in white robes and skullcaps, from East Brunswick, N.J., to Manhattan and then on to Philadelphia.
And an American official said a U.S. military C-130 flew a group of people, including some lightly wounded or injured, from Algiers to a U.S. facility in Europe on Friday.
In his attempts to get outsiders interested in using the studio he had even flown a group of Italian film producers across for a meeting with him in Mauritius.
ONE night in Central Park, when the screech owls were teaching their babies how to fly, a group of birders were scanning the canopy of a white oak tree at the Loch, the stream that meanders through Frederick Law Olmsted's designed wilderness.
Plans by Saudi Arabia to fly a group of its citizens home from Washington this week have raised early concerns among some law enforcement officials about Saudi cooperation in the investigation of last week's terrorist attacks.
Several Chinese journalists say that soon after Baidu suffered bad publicity, the company offered to fly a group of journalists to Hong Kong for a leisurely weekend at a luxury hotel.
