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Real-estate developer builds charter op from the ground up

Going from real estate to on-demand business jet charter seems a bit of a stretch.

By AIN Staff • AIN Staff

May 7, 2008

Going from real estate to on-demand business jet charter seems a bit of a stretch. But according to Green Air founder Steven Green, it makes perfect sense.

Real estate was where Green began in 1981. The timing was good. Things went well, and then they got better. By 1998 he was expanding his real-estate interests into Florida and making a round-trip weekly pilgrimage to several central and south Florida cities to keep an eye on things. In the end, a litany of long lines, late flights and lost luggage led him to begin using on-demand charter. But charter also was less than Green expected. He recalls boarding “too many airplanes where the cabins had become shabby with use, run by companies that had lost sight of the meaning of service.”

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