When you’re ferrying hundreds of A-listers to the Academy Awards, the last thing you want is rain.
If it pours, the convoy of chauffeured vehicles slows, gridlock ensues and the up-to-the-second schedule for red carpet arrivals collapses. Plus, it’s not safe. “Traffic in itself is a security risk,” says David Seelinger, CEO of EmpireCLS — among the event’s largest suppliers of luxury transport — since a bottlenecked parade of stars can become a target for paparazzi, rabid fans or worse. “And safety is our No. 1 priority, for attendees and for our staff.”
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Seelinger’s staff on Oscar night is prodigious. “We’ll have around 300 cars working the event this year,” he says. Vehicles are drawn mainly from Empire’s local fleets, though supplements arrive from as far away as San Francisco and Las Vegas.
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