Since almost all of the providers spotlighted here provide Web-based do-it-yourself trip planning and arrangements for vastly reduced fees over outsourcing the function to the service companies for a hefty fee, operators with some international experience may wish to take advantage of this option.

Forty years ago, when corporate pilots like 2005 NBAA Doswell Award recipient Ron Guerra and his business aviation colleagues began flying their employers' new Lockheed JetStars and Grumman Gulfstream IIs overseas, they had little support outside their flight departments beyond the local FAA flight service station.

Imitation may be the purist form of flattery, but it doesn't always equate with success in the marketplace, especially where fractional aircraft ownership programs are concerned. Which, perhaps, is another way of saying, just because Richard Santulli pulled it off, doesn't mean you can with one or two airplanes and a handful of shareholders.