The Nexa study included information on the use of BizJets gathered from surveys by business media in various "best of" categories:

50 Most Innovative Companies, Business Week 2009: 95% use BizJets.
100 Best Places to Work, Fortune 2009: 86% use BizJets.
25 Best Customer Service, Business Week 2009: 90% use BizJets.
100 Best Brands, Business Week/Interbrand 2008: 98% use BizJets.
50 World's Most Admired, Fortune 2009: 95% use BizJets.
100 Best Corporate Citizens, The CRO 2009: 90% use BizJets.

There are currently 500 commercial airports in the United States for scheduled airline traffic, and more than 4,000 paved, general aviation airports. The FAA (Federal Aviation Authority) reports that there are more than 234,000 general aviation aircraft currently in the U.S., and estimates that there will be more than 275,000 in use in 2025. The latest FAA aerospace forecast for fiscal years 2009-2025 stated:

Jet aircraft are forecast to account for most of the increase, with hours flown expanding at an average annual rate of 5.2% over the forecast period. The large increase in jet hours will result from the increasing size of the business jet fleet.
The number of general aviation hours flown is projected to increase by 1.8% yearly over the forecast period. Much of the increase reflects increased flying by business and corporate aircraft.
As demand for business jets has grown over the past several years, the current forecast assumes that business use of general aviation will expand at a more rapid pace than that for personal/sport use.

Among the businesses that are directly involved in the general aviation segment, the latest information available from all sources indicates that there are more than 18,270 FBOs (fixed-base operations) in the United States. And except for the monopolistic states of Washington, Wyoming, North Dakota, and Ohio, all of these FBOs, plus the ancillary service centers, charter operations, flight schools and corporate-owned aircraft, offer market opportunities to write workers' compensation coverage.

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