Reporters and politicians are quick to assault corporate aviation when its popular to do so, but you never see anyone running the math on hourly operating cost of a company jet vs. airline travel, including CEO time and hotels. Not to mention the fact that we can fly to places the airlines couldnt dream of. If you throw 5 people on our 9 seat jet, you will have a cheaper day than if you took the airlines on a trans con flight, and everyone's home with their family for dinner. NBAA even has an unbiased program you can run to see when it is cheaper to fly the jet or the airlines. Smart business people dont use airplanes for just cause their neato, they are financial descisions that help their business model succeed.