Originally Posted by
piper28
There's Marine Corps Air Facility Quantico (home of Marine One). Don't know if the strip there is long enough for the planes they show them flying or not, and it's predominantly a heli base I think.
Of course, I'm not overly convinced that the FBI has a crack team of profilers that flies out via private jet to everything like on the show
. My guess is if they have teams that do this that they're far more likely to fly commercial, there's very little that is on the show that commercial schedules would really be a problem for.
I think the rationale is they need to start work on the case that very minute - as the later it gets, the less likely they are to save the person etc. I wouldn't say it's particularly feasible to have a group discussion about the investigation while on a commercial plane, nor is it very likely that there would be a commercial flight leaving within the hour to the place they want to go.
Though saying all that, I do agree with you that I find it pretty unlikely this would happen in real life!