Use a Chicago Mini Bus Rental for Your Next Business Conference

We pride ourselves on our extensive array of transportation services, such as our Chicago Mini Bus Rental service. The next time you and your employees host or attend a business conference in the Chicago area, having a service like our Chicago Mini Bus Rental will make traveling to, from, and around the area of the conference an enjoyable and painless experience.

Not only can groups stay together as they come and go, but using mini buses allows you to save a considerable amount of money and hassle. Rather than renting vehicles for each person attending the conference or convention, you can meet everyone's travel needs with on vehicle by using a Chicago Mini Bus Rental.

The mini buses available through our service can comfortably accommodate up to 25 passengers, including space for everyone’s luggage and TVs for everyone’s viewing pleasure. Each bus also has a fully integrated public address system. You can go over everything you wish to discuss with your fellow employees and conference attendees and sort out your plans together with your team, all the while traveling in superior comfort.

Rely on Our Chicago Limo Services to Take You around the City

At Pontarelli, we understand that it can be fun to explore a new city, but we also know it can be much more fun to explore with a seasoned, professional chauffer from our Chicago limo services taking you around the Windy City. Whether you’re in town for business meetings, a convention, or just for good old-fashioned fun, our limousines can take your experience to the next level.

Forget the hassle of renting a car and driving around an unfamiliar city to get where you need to go. Utilizing our Chicago limo services will not only save you money compared to renting a car, but it will give you unequaled peace of mind. You will never have to worry about being late to your meetings, how to navigate the city streets of Chicago, or where to find the landmarks, restaurants, and hotels you want to visit.

You will have a constant open line of communication with your chauffer, and you can arrange all of your traveling needs with our Chicago limo services online reservation program. So, the next time you’re in Chicago, let us give you a stress-free travel experience.

Pontarelli Helps by “Going Green” With Its Hybrid Buses

Pontarelli has always been known for its exceptional and award winning Chicago limo services, and now we're going the extra mile to do our share to help the environment. Joining our fleet of buses equipped for Chicago bus tours and Chicago charter bus rental, our hybrid buses are top of the line automobiles that not only reduce our company's carbon footprint, but offer the same high standards of quality and comfort you are used to from Pontarelli Chicago limo services.
Just like our other Chicago charter buses, our new hybrid buses are outfitted with leather seating, reading lights, 3 drop down screens, DVD player, Stereo, and a CD player. Also, overhead consoles are available for individual passenger operation of heating/air conditioning and lighting control.
Large executive groups traveling to Chicago convention centers, hotels or on corporate field trips will appreciate the luxurious appointments and spaciousness of these Chicago charter bus rental coaches. Pontarelli Chicago Limo Services Company also provides corporate shuttles and guided Chicago bus tours in our new environmentally friendly buses. We here at Pontarelli are very proud that we can becoming more environmentally friendly while at the same time offering you the very same exceptional service you are used to from us.

President Drops User Fees From FY2011 Budget

NBAA Hails Exclusion of Controversial Proposal from White House Plan

Contact: Patrick Dunne, (202) 783-9263, pdunne@nbaa.org
Dan Hubbard, (202) 783-9360, dhubbard@nbaa.org
Washington, DC, February 1, 2010 – The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) today welcomed the Obama Administration’s Fiscal Year 2011 (FY2011) federal budget proposal, which does not include new user fees for general aviation.
“When it comes to the long-standing battle over user fees, it appears that today, we have reached an important and welcome milestone,” said NBAA President and CEO Ed Bolen. “The fact that user fees are not part of the President’s 2011 budget proposal shows the tremendous progress we have made over the past year.”
Bolen noted that the Obama Administration’s previous budget proposal, which was introduced last February, contained an important provision that read, “Starting in 2011, the Budget proposes to replace some aviation excise taxes with direct user charges.” The President’s new budget proposal does not contain similar language.
“The proposal introduced by the White House today stands in clear contrast to language we saw last year,” Bolen continued. “Our community, which has been so energized and mobilized by the user fee threat, should be heartened by this news.
“Like the Administration, the general aviation community supports full funding for the FAA and modernization of the nation’s aviation system,” Bolen said. “But our industry has been united in opposing calls for user fees, which require a large bureaucracy to manage, and would impose a hidden administrative burden on the many small and mid-size businesses that rely on an airplane to succeed.
“Instead of adopting foreign-style user fees, NBAA and its Members have been very aggressive in promoting the wisdom of building upon the stable, reliable and efficient fuel tax mechanism for general aviation to help fund aviation system modernization,” Bolen said. He noted that with fuel taxes, users pay the tax at the pump, the government easily collects the revenue, and the system serves as an effective proxy for the cost airplanes impose on the system. “On top of all that, the fuel tax is environmentally friendly, because it encourages the development of cleaner, quieter and more efficient engines,” Bolen added.
“We commend the Administration for its focus on aviation modernization, and we look forward to working with officials to expedite the transformation to the Next Generation Air Traffic Control System,” Bolen said.
Despite the removal of user fees from the Administration’s FY2011 budget, Bolen said that ongoing vigilance and grassroots mobilization by NBAA’s Members would be needed to ensure that Washington policymakers continue to understand the industry’s support for helping to fund aviation modernization through fuel taxes.
“Whether or not this is an indication of a permanent policy shift on user fees, or a one-time development remains to be determined,” Bolen said. “What we do know for certain is that our industry must continue to make its voice heard on this and other issues.”
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Founded in 1947 and based in Washington, DC, the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) is the leading organization for companies that rely on general aviation aircraft to help make their businesses more efficient, productive and successful. The Association represents more than 8,000 companies and provides more than 100 products and services to the business aviation community, including the NBAA Annual Meeting & Convention, the world’s largest civil aviation trade show. Learn more about NBAA at www.nbaa.org.
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