Events such as the Hudson River plane crash highlight the risk of companies sending many employees on the same flight.
International companies may be exposing their operations to unnecessary risk by failing to restrict employee numbers allowed to travel on the same flights.
A survey of 101 firms conducted by the Association of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE), revealed 16 % of corporations located in Asia-Pacific, Canada, Europe, the Middle East/Africa and the United States have no policy restricting the number of executives that can travel together on a plane, either corporate or commercial.
A massive 61% that do have such a policy admit to applying it only at executive level with only 28% of respondents having a policy that includes all employees.
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ACTE conducted the survey following the commercial aircraft landing in New York’s Hudson River, in which 24 executives of one financial firm were reported to be on the same flight.
"The reliability of air travel makes the unthinkable seem impossible,” said ACTE executive director Susan Gurley.
“Yet it may only take one accident to spawn disaster — the Hudson River incident only serves to emphasize the need to tighten up corporate policies regarding the number of employees that travel on the same flight.”
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