Once again Show News has demonstrated how it reaches
the desks of the most important decision-makers in the business.
Commenting on the Show News suggestion yesterday that Warren
Buffet--whose Berkshire-Hathaway group owns NetJets--may be using
some of his billions to support a clandestine super-sonic business
jet project that is under development by Lockheed Martin, Richard
Santulli, chairman and CEO of NetJets, said, "Absolute nonsense.
I read that in the paper this morning and it's absolute nonsense.
Warren is perfectly entitled to spend his money on whatever he
wants without telling me, and Lord knows he does, but I am willing
to bet all my Berkshire stock that he has not, is not and will
not be signing any checks for anything like this."
Santulli did give a little insight into what his company is planning for customers
with a need for speed in the 'post-Concorde' era. Watch this space,
was his message--and keep an eye out for an invitation in the mail.
"Our announcement will probably be made the day after Concorde
retires," he suggested. "We will demonstrate that the
time taken to travel door-to-door with NetJets will be the same
as flying with Concorde." NetJets clearly has a clever plan
to cut out the time-wasting on key business travel routes and give
back to passengers some of the time-traveling magic of the Concorde.
More elusively still, Santulli said that NetJets will also offer
"some product changes that will bring the two continents closer
together."
