This year only the U.S. Women's Open is on a major network, but Whan said he hopes that NBC, Golf Channel's corporate sibling, will air four or five tournaments in 2013.
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The message: The fat cats who fly around the country on corporate jets exacerbate delays in air travel.
The exceptional safety record and proven dispatch reliability make the King Air 250 a viable corporate aircraft.
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Commercial air carriers and private and corporate jets--not to mention lawmakers--have bickered over who will foot the bill.
Yet this has not presented a problem until recently, as supercomputers came out of national laboratory blockhouses, into massive air-conditioned buildings in corporate headquarters, later onto millions of desktops, and now into millions more pockets in mobile devices.
"It's a matter of getting the contracting states around the table and acknowledging this is a serious issue: that the number of unruly passengers is on the rise and it needs to be decided how countries address this, " Steve Lott, former International Air Transport Association head of corporate communications in North America, told Orient Aviation magazine in 2010.
In their heyday, the ancient Olympics before Macedonian warlords and Roman politicians sullied them had more in common with one of today's free open-air music festivals than with the corporate carnival planned for London this year.
Mr Shabecoff lists some of the dramatic gains that would be made possible by America's embrace of green politics, including cleaner air and water, checks on corporate abuses and a greater popular participation in the democratic process.
According to the Air Transport Association (ATA), the industry group that represents commercial airlines, corporate jets and other small planes use about a third of the nation's creaky air traffic control system but pay for only about 6% of it.
It's airlines versus corporate jets in a Capitol Hill dogfight over the air traffic control system.
"If you want to design something in your front seat, you have to go through a rigorous certification process, " explains Janis Vanags, Air Baltic's vice president of corporate communications.
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Tucker, who's performing over Memorial Day weekend at the Jones Beach Air Show in New York, said corporate sponsors are trying to line up smaller events to fill his schedule after eight of his 20 shows were canceled.
He uses his three corporate jets endlessly, having logged over 250, 000 air miles last year.
Sorry, TJ, but our corporate policies forbid us from shaking hands with guests on the air.
The ATA also wants Congress to put more of the cost burden on "general aviation"--including private and corporate jet travel--which commercial carriers say is largely responsible for air-traffic delays at congested airports.
So here are some simple rules of the air, and some guidance for passengers at any place in the corporate hierarchy.
Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, on Wednesday announced legislation that would reinstate air-traffic controllers using funds generated by ending a tax break for corporate jets.
"As a longtime partner of Adobe, we are excited that users will have the opportunity to enjoy AIR applications and content on our devices, " said Christy Wyatt, corporate vice president, software and services product management at Motorola.
And like Air France-KLM, while the pair will combine their businesses they will maintain separate corporate operations.
In one corner is the ATA. They say the number of small aircraft and corporate jets exploded from 1, 800 to 18, 000 since 1970, jamming America's air traffic control system, but the fees paid haven't kept pace.
And on the corporate social responsibility front, travelling by rail has a considerably smaller carbon footprint than travelling by road or air.
Air France commercial flights are to resume November 7, while British Airways will run a preview flight for corporate customers and reporters the same day and resume its regular commercial service on November 9.
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