The People Behind the Airplanes – Terry Wall, Businessman and Friend to the Unfortunate

Our customers include some of the people we most admire.  Most of the aircraft in our charter fleet belong to people who fly occasionally but trust us to manage their aircraft and make it available when they don’t need it. The income from charter flights offsets the cost of ownership.

The owner of a beautiful [...]

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From the Director – Trust but Verify

Trust, but verify was a signature phrase adopted and made famous by the late president Ronald Reagan. President Reagan frequently used it when discussing U.S. relations with the Soviet Union. Reagan rightly presented it as a translation of the Russian proverb “doveryai, no proveryai”.

The phrase was learned by President Reagan from Suzanne Massie, a [...]

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Aviation Services Value Exceeds Cost

Successful business growth, productivity, and return on investment, all require hard work and long hours. However, too often it is lifestyle that is penalized as a result.  More than occasional, businesses think the solution is to add or not to add employees. Beyond the cost, this decision is further complicated by the challenge [...]

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Communication – Vital to Aviation Cost

From the Director of Maintenance

We all read Brad’s newsletter article in the last issue of Perspective about how proper communication is vital to aviation safety. In the article Brad discussed how improper communication between crew, crew to air traffic controllers, or crew to maintenance could cause an unsafe outcome.

Brad hit on how proper [...]

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Traveling with Children, Elderly, and Pets as Passengers

Traveling on the airlines with children, pets, or elderly people can be a challenge. Charter with SSC makes the journey easier on everyone.

It is our goal to accommodate every client we fly and to exceed their every expectation.  There are however, situations that we encounter everyday that require special accommodation’s to ensure our [...]

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What’s In A Name?

Special Services Corporation (SSC)business market is aviation services. SSC is an assembled team of individuals that are responsible to perform the extensive and complex transactions required in the aviation industry.

Possibly one of the the most often asked questions today may be, “How is business?” The context of the question is one of the state of economics [...]

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Business Gram

From the CEO

Turbulent economic challenges to businesses today demand that managers have a panoramic view when balancing operational resources with revenue and cost.

As we alluded to in the last issue, the “efficient utilization” of human resources has the attention of SSC management. We believe that efficiency directly affects the bottom line.

We [...]

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Quote Please

2012 is now in full swing with a little different outlook than previous springs. We are aggressively pursuing opportunities to provide flights to clients that are outside of our historical service region.

The market for flight services have evolved over the last few years and requires us to use a number of new ways to [...]

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Safety & Security of Private Aviation

Click to enlarge. We didn't even include highway/motorist accidents on this chart, because it would blow the scale completely out of proportion.

 

As a matter of fact, travel by air continues to be the safest mode of travel. Which makes it ironic when I hear people say they are “going to drive” because [...]

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Slow Down Before You Start Moving

By Jarod Spencer

Aircraft go fast. Customers use these wonders of technology to get where they want to go more quickly than they otherwise could. Because of the pressures to meet schedules, flight crews can get in a rush. While efficiency is a hallmark of a well trained crew, speed for speeds sake is neither [...]

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