Originally Posted by
flyingcrazy
Thanks for explaining it, however it still seems a very expensive operation shuttling staff between different bases on a regular basis. It would make much more sense for the staff to not to need to travel so much by making each base specific for the jobs performed by the staff based there.
Do you mean MUC or a BAE systems airfield in Bavaria?
BAe is a giant company and has a big operation in both Warton and Farnborough. Farnborough is more administrative and Warton is more manufacturing, as such there is high demand for travel between the two facilities.
I work for a small company (160 people) with operations in London and Nottingham. We always have people travelling between the two offices and spend a fair chunk of money on mileage and trains for this to happen. For a business like BAe which has over 100,000 employees, a dedicated link between the main sites makes sense.
Whilst it always makes sense wherever possible for all facilities to be on one site, life is never that simple!
I'm not quite sure what is in Munich, but BAe definitely fly regularly to MUC itself:
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Untit...0de6a5411f1c7e
Airbus do something similar but they don't operate their own aircraft on the corporate shuttles, they use chartered aircraft from commercial operators to run the schedule.