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[quote user="JSGreen"][quote user="Falls Valley RR"] <p>The airport is irrevelant unless Corperate keeps Jets for the Big Bosses.</p><p>[/quote]</p><p>I talked to one of their pilots at an FBO one time...their jet was down, and waiting for a replacement to continue the trip....he claimed they have the second biggest corporate air force in the country...</p><p>Should we be glad they havent branched into cut rate air transportation??</p><p>[/quote]</p><p>Well.. I cannot stay away from airplanes in general, Im thinking that the VLJ's (Very light jets) backed by scheduling software and availible 24/7 on demand will be the next big thing in Bizavaition.</p><p>Imagine a little cottage inventor working out of a garage being able to whistle up one of the VLJ's and get aboard in a General Aviation field somewhere with sufficient runway and flit over to Fayetteville to pitch the idea to walmart for example. Hell of alot cheaper than Commercial, Faster than security lines and probably execute the trip in... say... 30 minutes instead of 4 hours by ground or whatever.</p><p>The cost? Well... if enough people participate the VLJ's will be much cheaper than those blingage burdened Gulfstreams or Dassaults.</p><p>Last I looked at airlines, Jet Blue has the corner on cutrate transport but I consider Southwest the best of the bunch with thier B737's.</p><p>What do you think can happen when local airports with perhaps a strip 5000 feet long can suddenly originate and ternimate flights all over the USA at or better than the big Commericial airlines can do out of thier controlled airspace?</p>
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