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The most recent pitch came Wednesday from a California company that has offered up its CEO “to talk with you about existing market conditions that will make commercial airline travel worse for business travelers in 2008.”

As we all know, airline delays have increased tremendously. Last year was the fifth straight year that delays increased over the previous year.

What that’s meant for reporters is that we keep getting pitches from people who represent private jet companies,http://cheap-Titans-jerseys.weebly.com. The connection? They can take us to lesser used airports, can bypass the long lines at the TSA checkpoints or otherwise speed up our trips,cheap patriots nike jerseys.

Then, less than two hours later, the exact same pitch came from a different “Assistant Account Executive” at the same PR firm.

But I digress.

I’m sure I’ve misplaced other pitches that have come in over the electronic transom in the past year. But you get the idea — and the pitches are usually followed up by eager phone calls.

On Feb. 14, a PR firm pitched a story about a New York company that arranges travel through a combination of private jets and commercial flights, and all “without the hassles of flight cancellations, inconvenient layovers or long delays.”

But those two &#8220,Cheap Bengals Jerseys;Assistant Account Executives” were six weeks behind a “Junior Account Executive” from the same PR firm who had proposed the same story on Aug. 29. She offered the company’s president and chief operating officer, not the CEO, to talk “about the trends, regulations, challenges and opportunities within the exploding charter jet industry.”

On Sept. 20, 2007, a PR firm pitched a story about a New York air charter broker.

I was beginning to think that there was a free trip to Aruba riding on the PR people’s ability to place a story in the Dallas Morning News.

Part of the glamorous life of a reporter is dealing with public-relations types who stay busy trying to find ways to interest me in their company. Take the whole subject of private jets.

On Oct. 3, 2007, a PR firm pitched a story about a private jet charter broker. “With congestion wreaking havoc on commercial aviation, small and mid-sized companies, specifically those dependent on the hub and spoke system, have been stranded and are left scrambling for an alternative transportation,” I was told.

An “Assistant Account Executive” at a PR firm contacted me on Oct. 10 to pitch her client,http://cheap-mariners-jerseys.weebly.com/. She noted that “travelers&#8217,Cheap Lions Jerseys FNXh; disdain for commercial airlines grows” and said her client — the CEO of a private jet company — could talk “about how his company is helping to increase access to private aviation through its unique business model.”

On Sept. 25, 2007, a PR firm pitched a story about a Tennessee company offering Internet booking for private jets, “helping charter customers escape the time-consuming hassles of current booking systems.”