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Comfort without Commitment
Michelle Seaton
07/01/2004
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Lemke is not alone, says Mike Gorham,
president of SelectJet, the charter company in Grand Rapids that rents the
Citation to ASV. “I have a regular charter customer, a $150 billion company that
doesn’t own a corporate jet,” says Gorham. “They don’t want to. They’re too busy
making money doing what they do best.”
Kevin Jordan, president of Business
Jet Services, a charter and management company based in Dallas, has clients with
stories similar to Lemke’s. One group of lawyers prepays $100,000 for charter
business travel each month. For every flight, they charter a Gulfstream III for
$4,000 per hour, which includes fuel and crew (but not the 7.5 percent mandatory
excise tax). Jordan has tried to sell the firm a GIII, but the partners are not
interested. “In their defense,” says Jordan, “when they’re done with what
they’re doing, they won’t need a plane anymore.”
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