Then it moved into the executive jet business to compete with Cessna and Bombardier.
Clinton landed at Chaklala Air Base in an unmarked executive jet, safely behind an identical decoy aircraft.
Since the attack, Executive Jet, a company that offers part-ownership of private jets, has been deluged with calls.
NetJets Inc. also offers aircraft management, charter management, and on-demand charter services through its subsidiary, Executive Jet Management.
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The quickest way to get from Oxford Circus to Central Park South will now be by executive jet.
Although private supersonic travel is some way off, potential producers are enrouraged by the success of Executive Jet Inc.
More recently, Embraer has set its eyes on the executive jet market.
Through its NetJets program, Executive Jet pioneered "fractional" aircraft ownership, in which two or more firms share a private plane.
Executive Jet, which was acquired by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway last year, currently has a backlog of 460 aircraft on order.
More information on NetJets and Executive Jet Management is available at www.netjets.com.
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Executive Jet senior vice president Kevin Russell says his company could buy "anywhere between five and 50" supersonic jets when they become available.
In September, a Gol Airlines Boeing 737 collided with an executive jet over the Amazon rainforest, causing the passenger jet to crash, killing 154 people.
Their concept is vastly more convenient than commercial airline travel with all its waits and security lines, yet a lot less expensive than chartered jets or executive jet ownership.
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Commercial airlines and car-rental firms are suffering, but executive-jet firms are booming.
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The resources required of the air-traffic control and airport system to fly a chief executive in his jet are the same required to fly a 767 full of passengers.
It will fit a large variety of aircraft, from light corporate jets to giant jetliners, so the contraption could appeal to everyone from Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people) Chief Executive Larry Ellison , a jet aficionado, to Donald J.
There are no fixed principles of reason which transcend these differences and which are every bit of true of the billionaire, private-jet riding, oil executive and the saintly, suffering single mom working at the diner for tips.
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The hope of air taxis is to bring the price of jet charters down to the executive masses.
Stuck on the tarmac at Newark International Airport in his Gulfstream V on Sept. 11 and cut off from the world when his cell phone wouldn't work, EDS Chief Executive Richard Brown silently watched out a jet window as the World Trade towers across the Hudson River burned and collapsed.
The guards travel with the executive, find secure drivers and investigate the corporate jet for potential security breaches like unidentified luggage.
When it resumed three weeks later, it had to resort to renting a corporate jet at triple the cost of business class, says Chief Executive Mark Lortz .
Mark Fichtel, chief executive of the New York Board of Trade, remembers the impact of the initial jet strike and looking out the windows of his office in Four World Trade Center to see a shower of debris.
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