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The business charter jet market is pretty hot nowadays. Traveling from one major hub to another is not the problem that causes small planes to becomes more attractive. Try going from a small or medium size city / airport to one of the same size. As soon as you have to add a lay-over to your trip, travel times become insane and time is money, isn't it. Here is an exempt from an article Rich Karlgaard wrote for Forbes Magazine.

Last month I endured Airline Purgatory During Trips To Mississippi, South Carolina and Florida. Each trip, including the one home to California from Orlando, required two flights. I was laid over more times in Atlanta than Rhett Butler. I ate enough chicken-fried steak at Paschal's Southern Delights in the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport to drop a moose.

The air carriers are not to blame. What's broken is the hub-and-spoke system. Its inefficiencies drive you nuts. Consider my trip from Laurel, Miss. to Kiawah Island, S.C. on Jan. 26:

• 90-minute drive from Laurel to Jackson

• One-hour wait in the Jackson-Evers International Airport

• One-hour flight to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta airport

• Two-hour layover in Atlanta

• One-hour flight to Charleston, S.C.

• 30 minutes to deplane and find driver

• 45-minute drive from Charleston International Airport to The Sanctuary resort on Kiawah Island. Total travel time: 7 hours, 45 minutes.

This is insanity. My own airplane, a Cirrus SR22, which cruises at 210mph, could have made the trip from Hesler-Noble Field in Laurel to Executive Airport in Charleston in 2 hours, 30 minutes. Add 2 hours for flight prep and car trips to and from the airports and you get 4 hours, 30 minutes in a single-engine piston airplane, versus 7 hours, 45 minutes in a commercial jet.

I rarely use my own plane for business travel. I'm not a good enough pilot to joust with bad weather and high-pressure schedules. So I'll be the first in line to use air taxis when they become available.

This article says it all. Just by looking at the time wasted by using commercial airlines it will be easy to justify a private business charter jet in many cases. High-paid executives should not be stuck in an airport. They should be to be productive and they should be able to reach business destinations in a time acceptable for the business. A long flight with lay-over is not just time consuming, it is also physically and mentally exhausting for the business executive.