Charlotte to Orlando in 1 h 36 m

Technology companies were the first to go remote and are quietly the heaviest users of point-to-point business aviation — because the customer sites, the fabs, and the acquisition targets are not in the same city as the office. The Charlotte–Orlando pair is a clean example: 412 nm apart, and awkward by every scheduled option.

Leave at 07 15, on site by 09 51, and the aircraft waits while you work. 6 h 03 m on the ground is a full session, and you are home by 18 30. The hotel night, the second working day, and the evening away all come off the cost of the trip — which is usually where the real money was.

Both ends of this pair have hub airline service, so there is a nonstop and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What the nonstop does not give you is the hour before it: the drive to the main terminal, the screening queue, the gate, and a departure time chosen months ago by a network planner. Door to door, the private version usually saves two to three hours in each direction — and it saves them at the ends of the day, where they are worth the most.

Both Concord-Padgett Regional Airport and Orlando Executive Airport are straightforward fields for this aircraft with margin in hand, which matters more than it sounds: routine pairs are the ones that dispatch reliably, and reliability is most of what a business traveller is actually buying.

One type, learned properly. We place this leg with a Part 135 operator we already know on the Vision Jet, in an aircraft carrying CAPS — a parachute over the entire airframe — and a one-button emergency autoland any passenger can use. For a company putting four people on one aircraft, those are the specifications that matter.