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financially conservative or were concerned about optics. The air- lines and COVID have changed that and it’s not a knee-jerk reac- tion, it’s permanent. I don’t see it changing, even if the airlines returned to their days of grandeur and mask requirements went away.
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I don’t believe the new market of people who have justified private travel are going to decide to start traveling on the airlines again. A slight paraphrase of a famous quote, “Once you have tasted pri- vate flight, you’ll never fly with the masses again.”
Sure, some of the people who are new to aviation will decide that the cost is too great, others will decide that it just isn’t for them, and even
a modest downturn of the economy could bring back the feelings that optics are more important than convenience. But the result will ›
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