Tim Clark, the president of Emirates, says his airline represents the future of mass air travel.
Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the billionaire founder of easyJet, an airline, represents his native Cyprus in Monaco, where he now lives.Few have done better by their masters than Joanne Herring, former honorary consul for Pakistan in Texas.
With such gold-plated backing, the Americans assumed that China's government-owned national and regional airlines would buy their planes.But the airlines, represented by a rival ministry, preferred to buy their aircraft direct from Airbus and Boeing, which were cheaper and offered the bureaucrats "factory tours", mostly to Disneyland.
"SkyHigh Airlines represents everything frustrating to businesspeople and other travelers who are looking for better service," said Tom Romary, vice president for marketing at Alaska Airlines in Seattle, "and the campaign says there's an alternative".
The 10 biggest airlines represent more than 90percentt of the industry's total domestic sales.
The Chinese and Indian airlines represent less than 3 percent of the sector's emissions, said Connie Hedegaard, the European climate commissioner.
Cheap private airlines represent rapid change: over 250 weekly flights now connect the region to the rest of India.
Airlines represent potentially easy-to-serve customers for biofuels, given the carriers' concentration around airports and their voracious energy needs.
Boeing has more than 700 orders for the Dreamliner from at least 50 airlines, representing more than $110 billion in sales according to catalog prices.
For a low-fare airline it represents about 50%.
