Expert Opinion
AINsight: Is There a Glass Ceiling Up There?
Rising costs of aircraft, personnel, fuel, and supply chain present challenges for business aviation.

I would like to discuss the “glass ceiling” regarding the price of aircraft and other areas of the business aviation industry. Let’s start with the ever-escalating price of preowned aircraft and the biggest question: will we start to see these bump into a glass ceiling and begin to be held at a plateau or even pushed back down? And when this occurs, will we have a gentle landing or an abrupt change?

Remember 2008, when preowned inventory went from about 7 percent of the available fleet for sale to 18 percent practically overnight. The difference in the gentle landing or not will largely be because of such a drastic change in inventory very quickly.

Jay Mesinger
AIN Contributor
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Jay Mesinger is the CEO and Founder of Mesinger Jet Sales, an international aircraft brokerage firm, and has been regularly contributing to AIN since 2018.

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