The Private Jet Boom : The Slew of New Flashy Air Birds

Once upon a time, there was a commercial airlinealso larger than the Eclipse, it can seat about 6 people
industry, busy catering to everyone who wanted to fly.and will cost about 2.5 million USD.
Now there is something called as a private jet. Just asWe haven't even started talking about the Denver
you would cook at home and eat if you did not like theBased Adam Aircraft's Adam 700 which would be
idea of going to a hotel, you can now fly your ownsold for a little over 2 million dollars. Also, the Brazilian
plane, if you did not want the normal way of flyingmade Phenom 100, which would sell at $2.9 million or
planes, that is, commercially.the uber exquisite Honda's mini jet.
Eclipse Aviation located at Albuquerque, New Mexico,The plethora of new products on display is only an
has recently won a certification from the U.S Federalindication of the boom in the industry. Though it has
Aviation Administration of its brand new minijet. Thebeen a dirty industry, due to lack of an effort on the
Eclipse 500 is only the beginning in the spurt of mini jetpart of the buyer to shop around for prices afraid that
sales that seems to have grappled the ultra rich nicheit might be something of an integrity issue, it has led to
market in the U.S.premium pricing by almost all players, and it has been a
The Eclipse 500 priced at 1.5 Million Dollars can seatsteady climb, owing to the ever increasing number of
about 6 people and flies really high at about 40000 anddeep pockets.
also flies very fast at about 425 mph. It has the abilityThe slew of new models introduced by so many
of landing and taking off from any landing pad whichmanufacturers is only testimony to the fact that the big
can be as small as a length of about 2245 feet.boys still favor pretty little birds they can so cozily fly in.
In yet another development, Private Jet King, CessnaThere has been an increase of sales in private luxury
of Wichita, Kansas, is about to certifying its own minijets by almost 35% and the trend is also catching up in
jet The Mustang. A little more on the luxurious side andEurope and other parts of the world.