"Although perceptions may be to the contrary, the fact
is that eighty-five percent of the companies that utilize business
aviation are small and mid-size. And the passengers on business
aircraft are usually salespersons, engineers, technicians and other
employees below the senior executive rank."
Source: Ed Bolen, president of the National
Business Aviation Association. In a carefully-worded rebuke to
Associated Press writer Stevenson Jacobs, Bolen takes Jacobs to
task for the writer's December 21 article questioning the wisdom of
corporate execs continuing to fly on business jets, over more
'economical' options.