Résumé en anglais/private jets
Message de ilona92 posté le 29-09-2005 à 18:56:24 (S | E | F | I)
Bonjour!
Voilà je dois faire un resumé en anglais pour demain.
Voici le texte à resumer :

JET SET GO

For business travellers , private jets have a lot to recommend them, Extra leg-room and squashy leather seats make it easier to get work done. The airports they fly from are often less congested and closer to city center, cutting journey times. Private aircraft even have fewer accidents than commercial ones. And of course there is the sheer snob appeal of being able to avoid the herd.

But corporate jets are ruinously expensive. Shareolders see them as a symbol of excess. Warren Buffet, a noted investor, called his own private jet " The Indefensible". Even timeshares in private jets are costly. Executive Jet, which sells 'fractions" of private planes, counted Mr Buffet as a customer before he bought the firm in 1998.
An eighth of a share in one of its aircraft costs roughly $1.4m, with management fees of $20,000 a month on top.

But now there is a cheaper way for business travellers to fly on a private jet. On March 9th a new Internet travel agent, flightserv.com, launched "Private Seats", to allow people to buy individual seats on chartered private jets. Starting on April 17th, flights between New York and Atlanta will cost $900, only $40 more than a business-class seat on Delta Airlines. "We are democratising private air travel", says Beverly Lance, flight-serv's chief executive, somewhat optimistically. "Every business traveller can now experience the luxury and convenience of a private plane".

If the demand exists, there is supply to match it : compared with commercial aircraft, which each spend about 4,000 hours in the air every year, and privately owned aircraft, which fly for about 2,000 hours, each chartered jet spends only 500 hours in the air, with 90% of its time sitting idle on the ground. "We are bringing a new effiency to the private-jet market", says Mr Lance.
Flightserv, which will pay charter companies for operating each flight, and keep the ticket money, already has agreements with three big private-charter companies. It expects to fly roughly 100 routes by the end of the year.

The service operates rather like a car pool. Passengers go online to "open up" a new flight by typing in their preferred travel time, or they join someone else's itinerary. Mr Lance says that with around eight seats per plane, flight are certain to go, particularly on busy routes. A flight could be confirmed even with just one passenger, if there was demand on the return leg. Altough fligthserv's margins are a juicy 80% on a full plane, it break even at an average of 3.3 passengers a flight.

The private jet in America may be the last luxury toy for big boys.
But in the land of the car pool, the plane pool could just take off.


The Economist,
Newspaper Limited, London
March 18th, 2000

Et voici le résumé que j'ai fait pour l'instant :
Private jet are advised for to businessmen who travel because they are comfortable. The airports are not overloaded and well situated.
Moreover, commercial flight are have more accidents that than private flight.

Businessmen who travel can from now on to travel less expensive.(à revoir)
Indeed, people can buy separately seats on chartered private plane, thanks to a new Internet site.

Chartered plane less flight private plane and commercial plane.

Customers connected on the Internet and reserve their seats.
They tell(s) their itinerary and their travel time.
This service ( fonctionnne ??)works , because there are only eight seats per plane.
The plane could take off with only one passenger if there was a seat reserved for the return.

Pouvez vous me dire si mon résumé correspond bien au texte, si il n'a ya pas de contre sens ou autre, et corriger ou améliorer mes phrases si necessaire!
Je vous remercie pour votre aide!!!
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Edité par bridg le 29-09-2005 19:05
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