38 This year, major aircraft OEMs, such as Gulfstream, Textron Aviation, Embraer, and Dassault Aviation, are all set to bring new or updated business jet platforms to market. What’s most fascinating is these aeronautical engineering powerhouses have invented, tinkered with, and tweaked designs across the board to deliver quieter equipment designs that burn less fuel and are simply more efficient. Through new powerplants, winglets, composite materials, innovated avionics, in-flight connectivities, fuels, and a host of other updates, business jets have typically served as gateways for OEMs to deploy technologies that pull the rest of the industry along, and typically faster than
manufacturers in the commercial airliner sectors can. These technologies eventually make their way down to the general aviation market, putting weekend warriors almost on par with their more well-to-do counterparts. Moreover, while some industries have been shedding jobs from a topsy-turvy economy, air travel has proven to be an indispensable commodity to support people’s need to interact with each other directly and do business. That means, unlike many other industries, the need for more workers to sustain and grow the industry comes directly from consumer demand for both commercial and private travel.
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