He went to the Manhattan High School of Aviation Trades, where, instead of learning about stocks, he learned how to fix airplanes.
The number of companies with fractional-ownership deals doubled, to 1,125, from 1997 to 1998, according to the business aviation trade group.
A London judge, ruling in favour of a pilot in a case brought against Brookfield, described the arrangement as "bizarre".The fuel issue was recently studied by David Learmount, operations and safety editor of Flightglobal, a respected aviation trade journal.
The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, a general aviation trade group, has in the last week been vigorously pushing Congress for a reprieve from the restrictions, saying that many airports and companies that service corporate jets were being quickly driven out of business.
"It's what these people are accustomed to in their offices, in the hotels they stay in on the road, even in their automobiles," said J. Mac McClellan, the editor in chief of Flying, an aviation trade publication.
But in the wake of the attacks, the leaders of aviation trade groups have been contacted by the F.B.I., the Secret Service and the National Security Council about the risks to public safety posed by private planes.
Environmental concerns were at the fore once again this morning as aviation, trade union and business bosses gave a joint press conference urging the government not to "duck" the need to expand Heathrow.
The Department of Homeland Security, as part of the budget law passed last year, was ordered to hire the American Association of Airport Executives, an aviation trade group, to process applications for a new tamper-proof identification card for maritime workers.
The two companies settled their dispute on undisclosed terms last December, but some articles in the aviation trade press declared that the Eclipse 500 would never get off the ground, and compared the plane to the much-ridiculed Spruce Goose flying boat that Howard Hughes tried to develop in the late 1940's.
The aviation trade body Airlines for America, whose members include United, American Airlines and FedEx, says the multibillion pound traffic in both directions will be put at risk unless politicians concentrate their minds on the impact Brexit will have on the industry.
But it is not what potential customers hoped to see at the year's most important aviation trade fair.
