Airports and the Newest Generation of General Aviation Aircraft, Volume 1: Forecast (2009) / Chapter Skim
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By 2017, the cumulative air taxi VLJ fleet may total more than 1,300, with about half that number added to the air taxi piston fleet. The air taxi forecast in particular is inherently speculative, and both parts of the forecast were completed prior to the major economic downturn in late 2008 as well as recent industry developments, including the bankruptcies of air taxi operator DayJet and VLJ manufacturer Eclipse Aviation.
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for air taxi use are likely to displace automobile and commercial air traffic, leading to substantial increases in activity at certain airports that handle large numbers of the new air taxi services. But overall, the projected increase in operations by 2017 at "VLJ-ready" airports relative to 2007 is relatively modest, on the order of 6%.
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