Managing private aviation across managing directors and decentralized travel budgets

The challenge

Many organizations give leaders their own travel budgets and let them decide how to fly. Private equity firms, investment firms, and companies with regional leadership often work this way.

That autonomy is good for the business, but hard to manage. Each managing director books differently, with different providers, and the firm has no single view of what’s being spent, with whom, or under what standards.

How FlightWiseOS handles it

FlightWiseOS lets each leader act on their own, within controls and constraints.

• Each leader has their own account. A managing director in one city and another in a regional office each see their own account and profile.
• Each one books independently. They can fly the company’s membership, jet card, or fractional program, or book an On-Demand flight. FlightWiseOS takes On-Demand requests to Local Providers and US and regional fleets.
• The firm sets the rules. Approved providers, safety standards, and how much each account can book are set once at the parent level.
• Payment is central. Flights are paid for in one central place.
• Everything rolls up. Every flight’s details flow into bigger accounting budgets and firm-wide visibility.

What the firm gets

• Autonomy for every leader, without losing control
• One central record of every flight across every office
• Clean budgets by person, office, or region, rolled up for the firm
• Consistent standards on every trip, no matter who books it

Managing many parties at once is the point. See account structure and permissions for how parent and sub-accounts work, or request a demo.