On Monday, February 25, 2002, at 08:23 PM, Steve Schear wrote: >> At 10:53 AM 2/12/2002 -0500, Riad S. Wahby wrote: >>> Steve Schear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >>> As to your idea for a buy-in airline, the biggest problem is going to >>> be that you have to have 9 or fewer people on each flight. Because of >>> that, it's going to be prohibitively expensive (you're going to be >>> investing $5M to $10M on the plane initially, plus operating costs >>> around $1k/hour of flight, if not more). >> >> I haven't worked the numbers but it seems it could be competitive with >> first class. I'll bet a lot of first class clients would opt for >> elimination of current check-in inconvenience. >>
My next door neighbor designs the seats and interiors for the largest (or second-largest) private system. This has been an established market for years. 911 is not even the most important reason it's booming. --Tim May
