Well this has to be one of the more interesting job openings we've seen in the travel industry in a while. The Royal Family in the UK has a job opening for "Director of Royal Travel." As it's described: "This role is critical to ensuring that the Royal Household operates and purchases safe, efficient, cost…
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Ben obviously your meticulously written application has already been received i guess. The rest of you shouldn't even bother. Ben's got this!
I've got to say that the backlash against private flying for high profile individuals seems manufactured to create division. If you've got, say, a royal couple flying on state business (public appearances, including royal visits, are pretty much why the royals still exist), then you're not talking about two people and a baby.
You're talking about two people, a baby, a nanny, protocol staff, a security detail, and possibly more folks I've forgotten about. So, all of a sudden, you're talking the better part of a dozen or more people. Then, if you want the visit to go well, you don't want the couple and their entourage disembarking after a 6-13 hour flight looking tired and bedraggled as they glad-hand dignitaries.
I'd say that putting such folks on a commercial flight saves no money, has a minimal and totally offset-able carbon footprint, and is really just kabuki designed to send a particular and, I think, stupid message of "Royals: They're just like the rest of us."
"we’d need to know more about what credit cards they’re using to maximize their rewards!"
When you shit money like the royal family does, you don't need rewards...
I'm pretty sure this position has been pre-filled and the posting is for legal and Royal Household HR requirements.
@mallthus "I’ve got to say that the backlash against private flying for high profile individuals seems manufactured to create division."
There would not be a backlash if the Prince Harry did not say that he flies commercial 99% of the time. And at the same time giving speech about climate change, while barefoot for whatever reason.
„Director“ and then 85K £ per YEAR? Haaahahhahaahhaaa
They are searching for an intern I guess!
I'm assuming since only 85,000 pounds is on offer an apartment in Buckingham Palace is included. London rents are horrendous.
Is the 37.5 hour work week so that, like here in the US, they can keep you as an exempt (or non-exempt, I can never remember which is which...) "part-time" employee for benefits (or lack there of) reasons? If so, pretty messed up...
Peter, no. 37.5 hours is a standard work week in the UK and there is no such thing as exempt and non-exempt workers.
@eric there are many ordinary people who work in the royal household, who have absolutely no family links
@glenn
It is a little under the average, but as for anything to do with the royal family, it is more for the prestige of having that on your resume.
@endre it varies company to company, but the concept of exempt and non-exempt is a US concept that doesn't exist in the UK.