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Wings India
Growing personal wealth in India is spurring interest in business aviation.

India’s rapidly expanding upper‑middle class, a growing customer base of high-net-worth individuals, and an ambitious corporate sector are driving business aviation growth in the world’s fourth-largest economy. Just about all of the sector’s main aircraft manufacturers, including Dassault, Bombardier, Gulfstream, Embraer, and Textron, are now prioritizing sales growth in a market they view as too strong to ignore.

This was the bullish consensus among many industry leaders at the recent Corporate Jet Investor conference in the capital, Delhi. However, while it appears to acknowledge business aviation’s economic value—some might say belatedly—India’s government appears not to have fully responded to the sector’s anticipated scale-up from around 200 based aircraft today to 300 within three years.