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 General Aviation (GA) offers many advantages to the personal and business traveler. That’s why it’s one of America’s most popular forms of air transportation, flying more than 166 million passengers a year!
 GA passengers have access to nearly 20,000 airports and heliports located all across America. Having access to that many airports makes it easy for you to leave from a point relatively close to your home or office and lets you arrive much closer to your true destination.
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 70 percent of Airline Passengers Use Only 30 Hub Airports
In sharp contrast, 70 percent of the airlines’ tens of millions of passengers use only 30 big hub airports (no wonder they have so many long delays). That’s because the airlines use an inefficient hub-and-spoke route system, forcing passengers to use airports located in cities that they don’t want to go to. As a result, most airline trips require a long layover while you’re forced to change airplanes at one of their hubs. Unfortunately, luggage can get lost along the way.
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 With General Aviation (GA), you can leave and arrive when you want to, without being tied to a fixed airline schedule. Together with the speed advantages of GA, this flexibility often means that you easily can visit two or three different customers or business locations in one day.
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 Consider how much using GA could reduce your travel hassles — you won’t waste time dealing with big city airports, out-of-the-way airline hubs, delays, airplane changes, or lost baggage.
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The
majority of personal and business trips take less
time to complete by GA than when flying on the
airlines. Even though the airlines fly jets that
have an average cruising speed of 500 mph and the speed of the average GA aircraft
may be only in the range of 135 to 200 mph, it can very often take less time to travel
by GA. Why?
Door-to-Door
Travel Time
Consider a typical one-day business trip between
Mansfield, Massachusetts, which is located about one hour
outside of Boston, and Frederick, Maryland, which
is located about one hour outside of Washington,
D.C. The timeline assumes that you have a two-hour
meeting in downtown Frederick, and your goal is
to go down and back the same day.
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Using
General Aviation (GA), this trip took only eight
hours of door-to-door travel time!
That’s only a 10-hour workday for the same
two-hour meeting. A
good rule of thumb is: If your destination is less
than 1,000 miles away, traveling by GA is the way
to go. Using a faster plane can increase the threshold
to up to 3,000 miles. |
This typical business
trip requires 16 hours of door-to-door travel time,
when using the airlines. That’s an 18-hour work day just for a simple two-hour meeting!
And that’s without the usual airplane changes
required by most airline routes. A schedule like
that would wear anyone out. |
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 When using General Aviation (GA) aircraft, the owner of the aircraft and pilot flying it usually know the individual passengers that they will be flying with. In most cases, they know these individuals on a personal basis. And just as you would with your own personal car, if they don’t know the people or trust them, then those people don’t get on the airplane.
That level of control makes GA a secure way to travel. It’s also one of the fundamental reasons so many key business people working for America’s corporations travel by GA instead of the airlines; the companies that they work for want their employees to be as safe and secure as possible.
Compare that to airline travel, where you have to fly with hundreds of total strangers.
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Side-by-side
comparison:
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