Since the datawriter will also lower the expenses involved with sending NavData cards through the mail, Jeppesen says it will be able to reduce the overall cost accordingly. Jeppesen expects to begin taking orders for the datawriter during the last part of 1998. But National Business Aviation Association president John W. Olcott says they have more in common than just the obvious. Olcott argues one type of flying supports the other. If all of G.A. goes the way of business aviation, then all should go well.
Corporate numbers are good and getting better.
Olcott says it becomes very obvious when companies try to make travel plans. Business jets can go to approximately ten times the locations that have any type of commercial service and 100 times the locations that really have convenient service. Airlines serve 500 airports but concentrate that service on only 50 locations. Business can go to 5,000. What was bad for employees was good for corporate flight departments.