As a member in the National Defense Transportation Association (NDTA), Luxury Air Jets took part in an important initiative of meeting with the US government this week in Washington DC. Other member corporations such as Boeing, Northrop Grumman, AMTRAK, and FedEx that attended this meeting, are all joining the effort to foster partnership between government, military, and industry. This effort is designed to maintain a strong and efficient global transportation and distribution system in support of national security.

One of the main topics on the agenda was the National Transportation Week (NTW) which took place in Detroit, May 13-19, 2007; its purpose and scope. One of the events in the NTW was a business breakfast with a panel of leading transportation experts and local officials to discussed how technological advancements are reshaping all sectors of the transportation industry as we know it. Luxury Air Jets, represented by Gadi Capela of Client Relations, is in the opinion that there is a lot of room for cooperation between the government and the private industry. The government should provide the framework and ground rules within which the private industry should operate, and in return, the private industry should provide the government with a profit-making model. Rodney Kadymir, Luxury Air Jets’ Managing Director, is developing a business plan that will propose a unique way which will be safe, time-saving, and cost-effective for government officials and corporate executives to use private jet charter services to transport themselves and their staff.

From left: Leon Apodaca, Gadi Capela, and Elmira Naymark of Luxury Air Jets with Trader Monthly’s founder Magnus Greaves.

September 20th was a busy night in Chicago when 300 top traders and hedge fund managers from the Midwest gathered at the well known Rockit Bar and Grill to celebrate a special party to honor the 30 top ranked traders under the age of 30 in Trader Monthly’s September issue.

Luxury Air Jets was one of the 1,152 exhibitors at the 60th Annual Meeting & Convention of the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA). The convention, which was held from September 25 to 27 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, included a magnificent Static Display of Aircraft at the nearby Fulton County Airport. The total attendance number reached more than 32,000.

NBAA President and CEO, Ed Bolen, informed everyone that “General aviation in the United States leads the world in manufacture and technological advancements. …adopting improved technologies and procedures for navigation and flight safety. …general aviation continues to make its voice heard in Washington in the industry’s historic fight to stop an attempt by the big airlines to muster congressional support for their plan to shift billions of their costs onto general aviation.”

“Like general aviation, private aviation has experienced a few momentous breakthroughs this year.” comments Bill Culpepper, Luxury Air Jets’ Director of Flights, who was one of the representatives of the company at the convention. “It gave Luxury Air Jets the opportunity to help educate the aviation industry about private aviation in general, and about Luxury Air Jets in particular.” said Bill.

Hosted by STRATOS Magazine, Luxury Air Jets helped many of the fractional owners and jet card users to learn more about the unique way Luxury Air Jets operates. ”This was an opportunity for the tens of thousands of aviation industry attendees to understand the difference between general and private aviation.” says Bill and continues. “Our outgoing and innovative approach is the main reason why we are one of the fastest growing private jet charter providers in the world.”

Peter Greenberg

Luxury Air Jets joined NYCBTA on October 12th at the luxurious Rainbow Room, located on top of NYC Rockefeller Plaza, to meet with some of the most prominent folks in the business travel industry. The discussions covered a full array of business and corporate travel issues such as homeland security, international trade, and technology. As expected, all the speakers touched upon the issue of private jet charter. Peter Greeenberg – travel editor for NBC's The Today Show, agreed in his speech that in many cases there is an economic justification for using private jets, especially if flying multiple executives together. The taxi service, he said, is a good idea.

David Neeleman - founder and Chairman of JetBlue Airways, shared his thoughts and opinions around the rules and regulations governing the nation's air transportation industry. Mr. Neeleman stressed the fact that a lot of the over crowding of the runways in New York City is caused by private jets. He did not offer a solution but just stated the fact that this industry is growing immensely. NY Assemblyman Michael Gianaris who was part of the “Airline Passengers’ Bill of Rights,” which was passed in August of this year, spoke about the groundbreaking legislation and how New York is dealing with the intolerable delays at its airports, suggesting that it is not surprising that more and more people look for private aviation as a solution.

C. Stewart Verdery Jr. who served as the first assistant secretary for policy and planning at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), discussed legislation affecting the business traveler and his current work of delivering public policy results in business travel. Mr. Verdery emphasized the urgency of arriving on time when traveling on business and how private aviation is better at it. Finally, Bill DeCota - Port Authority Director of Airports discussed his responsibility for Kennedy, Newark and LaGuardia airports and the $15 billion public-private redevelopment programs and initiatives presently underway at these airports. Mr. DeCota said that one of the reasons people pursue private aviation is because today private jets receive equal “landing opportunities” on runways. “This is good news to our industry” says Rodney Kadymir, Luxury Air Jets Managing Director.

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