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Apple's board of directors requiring CEO to fly private

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Apple's board of directors is now making CEO Tim Cook fly on private aircraft when he travels, whether for work or for pleasure. "This policy was implemented in 2017 in the interests of security and efficiency based on our global profile and the highly visible nature of Mr. Cook's role as CEO," Apple said in a shareholder proxy statement released Wednesday afternoon. (www.businessinsider.com) Mais...

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vegad
David Vega 6
I think we're slowly drifting away from true aviation related topics. There are plenty of other sites for political issues.
jbqwik
jbqwik 3
Agree. Let CNN have the story.
DNAIR
Dick Nieuwendyk 1
Agree !!! - who cares ?
raleedy
ALLAN LEEDY 1
Actually, this is about taxes.
joelwiley
joel wiley 4
Apple is sitting on enough cash to buy him an airplane.
And a few airports to boot.
tyketto
Brad Littlejohn 2
True; Yet he chose to fly commercial, instead of those car manufacturer CEOs who flew private jets down to Washington to ask for a bailout when their industry tanked.
jimquinndallas
Jim Quinn 2
When I worked for Apple Computer as a District Sales Manager (a fancy name for peddler) they squashed my flying for company business even though I paid for the flying myself. Too much liability for the company, they said, even if I was not carrying passengers. I was told that Apple was extremely sensitive about lawsuits after Steve Wozniak flew himself and others to Lake Tahoe (?) for a meal. On takeoff he apparently did not have a good rate of climb and flew into some trees and some of them were hurt. If I recall the story correctly from 30+ years ago, it wasn't good for the company image for one of the founders to have done all this operating with a STUDENT pilot's license.
CPAIR007
JASON AWID 2
WHO CARES ...Not I !!!!
Moviela
Ric Wernicke 1
It is certainly a boost for general aviation to have business leaders discover the economies of flying private. While the price of plane and pilot may be higher than an airline ticket, the savings of time more than makes up for it.

Sadly executive protection has become a serious consideration for public companies, and the expense while seeming large is far less than the consequences of not protecting those people.

Keeping executives and celebrities out of the public portions of airports also keeps them off TMZ.
djjamar
Jamar Jackson -3
Running Apple he shouldn’t have to endure TSA or airport traffic. Apple should have use of moffett field just like google has exclusive access
joelwiley
joel wiley 2
So, you think both Apple & Google should have 'exclusive' access to Moffet field.
I thought exclusive was one or the other but not both. How do you see that working?

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