American International Group has agreed to share its company wings with its Chief Executive Robert Benmosche -- as long as Benmosche's personal detour is related to company trips and he foots the bill.
Personal use of the company jet has been a point of contention between Benmosche and the insurance giant since he signed on to lead AIG in August. Under the agreed terms, Benmosche must cover everything from lodging and transportation for the crew down to the in-flight bags of peanuts and bottles of V8, according to a recently filed report with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Airplanes are flying high on AIG's radar this weekend. The chief executive and a founder of aircraft-leasing company and AIG subsidiary International Lease Finance Corp. is expected to step down this week, reports The Wall Street Journal. The company has been trying to remove itself from the AIG family for the past year, and much of the effort has been led by the soon-to-be-departed CEO Steven Udvar-Hazy. ILFC's future with AIG, which it has turned to for some financial support since its been left out of the public debt market, is uncertain in light of Udvar-Hazy's exit.