Line between bizjet and airliner blurs
The scheduled airlines, after years of seeing business-class travelers lured away by business aviation operators, are fighting back.

Actually, i

The scheduled airlines, after years of seeing business-class travelers lured away by business aviation operators, are fighting back.

Actually, it’s only one airline, but interestingly enough its weapon of choice is right out of the corporate aviation arsenal–the widebody business jet (not widebody in the airline sense, but wide by business-jet standards). And the success of the resulting all-business-class service by partners Lufthansa German Airlines and PrivatAir, using a Boeing Business Jet, suggests that it is the right weapon at the right time. For the past decade, business aviation operators have been developing more ways to bring business travelers under their umbrella, through such programs as fractional ownership and block charter. Lufthansa is offering business travelers yet another alternative.