“Eclipse, a U.S. company, has come out with the (smaller) Eclipse 500. There are huge orders booked for these aircraft and they think they are going to be the next big thing.”
“When Concorde went out of service the business aircraft operators and the airlines thought: we will find a market niche here and we are going to exploit it,”
“Lufthansa was one of the first airlines to come up with the business shuttle idea, so they linked up with a company in Switzerland called Private Air -- they are proving a huge success.”
“(Business aviation is) introducing a whole new range of products to draw people in at the bottom end of the market, who may eventually work their way up.”
