{"id":97,"date":"2012-01-25T17:47:51","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T15:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/?p=97"},"modified":"2019-07-23T11:51:19","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T09:51:19","slug":"the-promised-articles-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/?p=97","title":{"rendered":"Changing the rules is against the odds"},"content":{"rendered":"October 27:\r\n\r\nThe \u2018very light jet\u2019 revolution announced 5 years now seems very distant and rather absurd. This week came the news of Piper\u2019s cancellation of its Altaire, the planned $2.5m jet upgrade to its market leading piston fleet. Piper is wisely cutting its losses on a taxi jet market which remains unproven. Diamond Aircraft\u2019s re-launch of their VJL D Jet might buck the trend but their investors will take note. Cessna have meanwhile switched focus from the Mustang taxi (which has bled dry many an operator) to the recently launched M2, responding to customers\u2019 need for comfort and speed rather than pure price. The traditional operator business model \u2013 mixed fleet of aircraft managed on behalf of 3rd parties and chartered to customers through broker intermediaries \u2013 is everywhere prevailing. Just look at Hangar 8\u2019s results. Revenue is up 67% to \u00a318m and it\u2019s only ever played by the tried and tested rules.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 27: The \u2018very light jet\u2019 revolution announced 5 years now seems very distant and rather absurd. This week came the news of Piper\u2019s cancellation of its Altaire, the planned $2.5m jet upgrade to its market leading piston fleet. Piper is wisely cutting its losses on a taxi jet market which remains unproven. Diamond Aircraft\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}