The route from Denver to Nashville is clearly too minor a one for United itself to make any money. So instead it’s actually a United Express — Mesa Air, in this case — route, and here I am on this little Canadair Regional Jet CRJ-700 (2x2x17.5 rows, and I’m in 17A), enjoying the 2 hour flight to Nashville.
Well, enjoying primarily the cold, cold air coming out of the a/c jet. Which is a lot better than the minor trickle of hot air we were getting for the hour we sat on the tarmac as the flight deck (a) “rebooted” the jet’s computer systems, then (b) filled out all the paperwork associated with same.
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Again…one of the reasons that I’m glad my company has its own planes.
The two times we have had to fly commercial have been a pain in the tushy. The waiting, the searching, and My boss getting tagged with FWB…all those things just go away with private planes.
If you have the money (or the need), private is almost certainly the way to go. For most companies, though, that’s a big “if.”
Actually, the company we merged with that has a major office in Tullahoma had a company jet (the main offices were in St Louis). When we were doing an IT Due Dilligence tour, I got to ride their company jet from St Louis to Tullahoma, which was fun, esp. since the Tullahoma office is right off of the air field.