Warm-up trip
Took the company jet to Naperville for meetings this week. Gotta say, very nice. Not so much the plane – it flies like all other planes – but everything else. I pulled up 20 feet from the front door of the hangar, which is a comfortable waiting room with wood floors, soft leather chairs, and warm colors. Looks like a place more suited to drinking bourbon and smoking cigars than waiting for a plane. The walk from there to the plane was another 30 feet. No security. No checking in luggage. Walk on, sit down. 5 minutes later we’re in the air. 1 hour later, we’re landing in DuPage, which is a small airport approximately the size of Lincoln’s airport with equally limited traffic. DuPage is a nice place to fly into as...