Ravage

Business Aviation's Emerging Markets
February 1, 2013 - 6:00am
Gulfstream Aerospace president Larry Flynn, second from left, announced plans for the OEM’s new service center in Beijing in February last year, and by November the facility was up and running. (Photo: David McIntosh)

When the financial crisis that exploded in late 2008 began to ravage Western economies in 2009 and 2010, the business aviation industry took well founded comfort from the fact that escalating demand from emerging markets farther east seemed to be shoring up otherwise sagging demand in traditional markets.