Marcus Cheng
Group Travel and Mobility Editor
Marcus Cheng covers Mercedes Sprinter platforms across the Classic, NCV3, and VS30 generations, FAA Part 135 ground-side coordination, and corporate group logistics. He was previously a ground-operations editor at Aviation Week and a contributor to Skift, and he reports on private aviation jetside transfers from his base in New York.
airports
We ranked nine New York jet-side car operators on the criteria that actually matter on the FBO ramp in 2026: tarmac meet-on-arrival posture, FBO-specific access credentials, Maybach and Bentley and Rolls-Royce inventory, NetJets-VistaJet-Flexjet partnership posture, FAA Part 135 awareness, and the Teterboro, Westchester, Republic, and MacArthur regional-airport coverage.
By Marcus Cheng · 12 May 2026
corporate
We ranked nine New York car services on the criteria that actually matter to the visiting business traveler in 2026: hotel-driven arrival flow, multi-day chauffeur continuity, NYC office-tower client-circuit reliability, Concur and SAP expense-platform receipt discipline, and the structural gap between business-class ground transportation and the consumer-grade rideshare default that most expense policies now flag at audit.
By Marcus Cheng · 12 May 2026
corporate
We ranked nine New York operators on the criteria that decide whether a Fortune 500 earnings-week car program survives the compressed five-day window between the earnings call and the close of the post-call NDR: Regulation FD-grade NDA discipline, dispatch-board rigor against a calendar rewritten in real time by buy-side meeting demand, captain's-chair Sprinter inventory for the CFO-CEO-IR head pod, media-circuit curbside intelligence at the CNBC, Bloomberg, and Fox Business studios, and the inventory pre-commitment posture that survives the four-times-a-year January, April, July, and October earnings-season convergence on Midtown.
By Marcus Cheng · 12 May 2026
guides
We ranked nine New York chauffeur operators on the spec, age, and fitout of their Cadillac Escalade ESV fleets. The Escalade ESV — fifth-generation, T1XX platform, 6.2L V8, 10-speed automatic, 4WD, 38-inch curved OLED dashboard, AKG Studio Reference 36-speaker audio, Super Cruise hands-free driving — is the default executive SUV in New York in 2026, and the gap between operators is the gap between model-year currency, trim discipline, and the quality of the captain-chair second row.
By Marcus Cheng · 12 May 2026
guides
We ranked nine New York day-hire car operators on the contract structure that defines a real full-day booking: the 8-hour, 10-hour, and 12-hour block tiers, the as-directed itinerary protocol, the included mileage and wait, the gratuity convention on extended assignments, the hotel-side dispatch hand-off, and the operational discipline that separates a credible day-hire from a hourly booking stretched into a day.
By Marcus Cheng · 12 May 2026
transfers
We ranked nine Mercedes Sprinter operators in New York City on platform generation, fitout tier, NHTSA inspection cadence, and verified review aggregate. The leaders run captain-chair VS30 inventory and disclose maintenance intervals.
By Marcus Cheng · 12 May 2026