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Building a Safety Culture in Corporate Aviation
Accident rates for corporate aviation and the airlines are virtually identical, but creating a culture of safety in corporate aviation... Read more >>
Strategic Plans & Aircraft Acquisitions
The selection of your business aviation services and assets is critical. They should be closely matched to your strategic intent and your specific culture. That is why it is essential to have someone who understands the strategic and technical issues of business aviation in your corner. VanAllen has helped numerous clients and their boards navigate the difficult decisions around their business aviation choices.
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The Understated Cost of Airline Travel
Straightforward, “green dollar”-based estimates of the cost of airline vs. business-aviation travel ignore the significant travel-time and productivity differences between the two modes. Such estimates also do not account for the uncertainty of arrival time and the potential time cost of having to check and retrieve luggage on commercial flights. Read more >>
The Art & Process of "The Deal"
The following article is designed to guide you through the purchase and delivery of your company’s new aircraft: from doing the appropriate research before the deal is made, to making sure the purchase contract is comprehensive and fair, to ensuring that your company carries out its proper due-diligence when the aircraft is ready. Read more >>
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Playing the Gripe Game
Complainers can sap the enthusiasm and teamwork—the life—out of a once-cohesive aviation department. But for managers to ignore, reject, or... Read more >>
Consulting Services
Each of our consulting services has evolved from our clients’ needs. The common thread is each service addresses a high impact arena. We require that our services meet or exceed your expectations. As we conduct your project we are continually focused on WIIFY: What’s In It For You? In other words, if we cannot help you succeed or improve, why would we spend your money doing it? And finally, each of our services and protocols are perpetually evolving. We learn from every client and every project. That is The VanAllen Way.
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Real Time Risk Management
Technological advances like real-time flight tracking, digital weather displays, and ground-to-air voice and digital communications links are making aviation – already very safe – even safer. Real-time risk management has the potential to bring profound improvement in all three of business aviation’s focus areas: safety, service and costs. Read more >>
People: The “Right Stuff” of Business Aviation
Ensuring the safety of passengers and crew is an aviation department’s absolute top priority, followed by service and efficiency. Cost-saving directives often result in staff cuts because, for the most part, major capital and supply costs are fixed. But unwanted staff turnover compromises safety. Read more >>
Outsourcery: Dungeons & Dragons
The growing trend for companies to outsource certain business functions – at least when it makes operational or financial sense to do so – will have a major impact on business aviation in the coming years. Read more >>
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Your Dog Is Ugly II
The following is a fictional account of an aviation-department manager charged by his CEO with the task of putting his... Read more >>
Audits & Reviews
Traditional audits only assure compliance to minimum standards. But our clients expect “Best Practices,” a much higher standard than mere “compliance”. Many want to raise the bar even higher. In response, we offer two unique “audits”: one focuses on operational performance and the other on economic effectiveness. We also support our clients who are seeking the International Standards – Business Aviation Operations (IS-BAO) registration. In each case, our goal is for our clients to gain new knowledge and improved practices through our audit processes.
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Your Dog Is Ugly II
The following is a fictional account of an aviation-department manager charged by his CEO with the task of putting his department on the road to best practices. He discovers that best-practices performance will require a change in philosophy, and that the “best practices” themselves are not specifically defined. Read more >>
Your Dog Is Ugly
Who’s to say that the aviation department is operating to the desired standards? And who defines and makes possible those standards? When things are going along smoothly, why question the basics? The fact is, the people most directly involved in the aviation department, including the executive to whom the department reports, may have a myopic... Read more >>