My Jet's Smaller Than Yours ; with Commercial Air Travel Turning Into a Crashing Bore, a Relatively Affordable Private Jet Market Is Opening Up.Welcome to a World Where Small Is Beautiful, Says Edward Helmore

Evening Standard - London › October 20, 2006

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You might buy a new car, a new house, several new, fashionable outfits, or even acquire a foreign lover, but nothing is going to improve your lifestyle more dramatically than the acquisition of a private jet. Titans of industry and media moguls like to compare the size and endurance of theirs; others swear by hiring them like holiday-cottage time shares. There is now a new option for jet- powered private aviation: mini jets that are starting to roll off production lines in the US and will be certified for sale here soon.

With the reassuring thrust of jet propulsion, the comfort of leather seats and the promise of travel at more than 400mph, manufacturers are expecting that this new era of mini jets will elevate light aviation from a bumpy, propellerpowered throwback to an older era of flight to a more futuristic and purposeful experience.

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My Jet's Smaller Than Yours ; with Commercial Air Travel Turning Into a Crashing Bore, a Relatively Affordable Private Jet Market Is Opening Up.Welcome to a World Where Small Is Beautiful, Says Edward Helmore

Or that's the hope anyway. Anyone who dislikes flying in the first place is not going to be won over by these tiny aircraft. But with commercial aviation a test of patience all of its own and, at Pounds 25 million, a Gulfstream G550 pricey to buy and expensive to run, these new jets are certain...

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