As an example, we might pick up something in New York bound for Tucson, and pick up another load in Bloomington bound for Yuma. Both would get charged for the mileage even though we were going there anyway.
Yes, that was the way we worked it as well from what I can remember.
There was a 727 in Oklahoma somewhere that was operated by Hardesty Oil (I think), and the principal actually did some of the flying.
Sorry, the 727 doesn't ring any bells, but the name Hardesty does for some reason. Would have been in the 1990s? Also, any idea where it was based?
Reason is, that when I was flying 727s, there was a 727 based on Will Rogers, I don't know who owned it, but I seem to remember that they got into some trouble with the FAA about questionable charters in that 727.
The only other corporate 727 that I knew of in Oklahoma, was based at TUL and was owned by William's Pipeline, they did a lot of work in Alaska and South America.