411A, agreed on the training costs, however it looks like training costs for one more type are less than another salary (plus benefits). So that's 4 salaries with benefits plus 8 training costs vs. 6 salaries with benefits plus 6 training costs. I'll have to check the insurance.
From reading the above posts, it seems there are two major issues flying corporate-
VIP (excluding the salary and benefit issues) that I'd like to solve. These are the on-duty issue (pager, cell phone, on-call 24/7/365, no planned time off, etc), and the low flying hours issue.
So one possible solution is to have 3 flight crews rated on one type each, with about 300 annual hours for each GV crew member, and 200-240 hours for each 757 crew member. The other solution is 2 flight crews that are dual rated, with about 400-450 annual hours. I'm sure there are other possible solutions.
A solution that does not appear acceptable, is 2 flight crews single type rated, with 600 annual hours for the GV crew, and 200-240 for the 757 crew. This solution would be fairly easy on the 757 crew (except for the low annual hours), but pretty hard on the GV crew (because of the spur of the moment flight needs).
The closer I get to these needs, the harder I'll work the numbers, but at this stage I like the 2 crew dual type arrangement the best, followed by the 3 crew single type arrangement. I think either would work, but feel the 3 crew arrangement would be somewhat more costly (excluding the insurance considerations).
The GIVSP will not make Europe from Texas, especially flying west, without a fuel stop. But then again I think those flights would be fairly rare. Reliability will be very important, so by the time these things start to happen, if the GV isn't fixed, I guess I'll have to look at the GIVSP (or a Falcon).
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Safe flying to you...