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Why not just fly the airlines?

The airlines often are the appropriate way to go. However, depending on a specific trip’s itinerary and the value placed on passenger time and productivity, travel by business aircraft often is the least expensive way to go when all costs and benefits are considered. Consequently, business aircraft often better pass a cost/benefit test. These employee travel judgments, typically made on a trip-by-trip basis, are subject to the same cost/benefit considerations and analysis applicable to any business decision. There also are some important trips that are just too difficult and time consuming to make on the airlines, making the trip untenable and subsequently untaken unless a more effective form of transportation, such as business aircraft, allows the opportunity to be realized.

Why are business aircraft sometimes a better alternative (to commercial air travel)?

Saving Employee Time

“Efficient employee scheduling” and “employee time saved” are key advantages of business aircraft use. Because business aircraft have the ability to fly nonstop between 3,500 small, close-in airports – ten times the number of locations served by scheduled airlines in the United States – highly efficient employee time management becomes a very real benefit. Additionally, the value of employee time often exceeds its cost to the company by substantial margins, further increasing the importance of employee time savings. Simply stated, business aviation helps a company obtain maximum productivity from its two most important assets – people and time.

Increasing Productivity Enroute

Employee productivity sustained enroute to a business destination – in a secure office environment, free from interruptions, distractions or eavesdropping – can have substantial value to an employer. Group productivity, maximized due to the common availability of club seating and tables, often is unique to business aircraft. Strategizing before meetings and debriefing afterwards are common practices often facilitated and encouraged by business aircraft cabin configurations.

Ensuring Industrial Security & Critical Employee Health

For many companies, the protection of personnel from uncontrolled public exposure alone is justification for business aircraft use. Avoiding eavesdropping, reducing travel visibility, eliminating unwanted and unnecessary conversations and interruptions, all support the use of business aircraft to safeguard company employees and the sensitive information they carry. 

Source: National Business Aviation Association

Employee Health: In the age of COVID-19, many businesses are wary of sending their critically-needed employees on travel itineraries involving crowded airliners. 

According to the CDC: “(airline) travel requires spending time in security lines and airport terminals, which can bring you in close contact with other people and frequently touched surfaces. Most viruses and other germs do not spread easily on flights because of how air circulates and is filtered on airplanes. However, social distancing is difficult on crowded flights, and you may have to sit near others (within 6 feet), sometimes for hours. This may increase your risk for exposure to the virus that causes COVID-19.” 

Our two King Air B200 aircraft are kept meticulously clean, and never carry more than eight passengers and two flight crew members. Based at Martinsburg, WV (KMRB), we are just 37 miles northwest of Washington-Dulles and a quick reposition to most airports in the mid-Atlantic states including all the airports of the Washington/Baltimore National Capital Region.

We are a Part 135-certificated United States domestic Air Carrier (A85A859W). MRB Aviation operates in full compliance with all Federal Aviation Administration safety standards and has been awarded a ARG/US Gold rating.