Elite Traveler Summer 2024

LEADERS IN LUXURY AVIATION

The innovators

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As we look to private aviation’s luxury leaders this year, we focus on innovators. It’s a mix of companies, people and products that have and are changing the industry. The year 2024 is the 25th anniversary of the jet card’s invention — a product that has proven itself over the years, though it’s not without skeptics. Then there is Delta Air Lines, whose well-regarded CEO hopes to cap an illustrious career by becoming the fi rstmajor airline to create a large-scale integrated private aviation solution successfully where others have failed. But that’s not all. Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) continue to move forward, fl ying you to more places faster, in greater comfort,and with an ever-increasing environmental focus. And then there’s franchising, where one of our innovators hopes to change the charter broker market — but don’t call it McCharter.

By Doug Gollan

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