This main stream air charter news tidbit may be a harbinger of things to come. We all try to meet high standards, be they FAA, independent auditors, or simply our own safety officer's.

But this may be an appropriate time to invoke a quote from Yoda, our little green friend from Star Wars: "DO OR DO NOT DO - THERE IS NO TRY."

The fact remains that the industry has data that is very bad, and this ABC News story will make any marketing of the Part 135 industry that much harder to do.

Furthermore, fractional ownership founders successfully exploited this weakness in our ranks, by developing large (arguably overpriced) fleets that have fantastic safety data.

This post on the Fractional Forum elaborates more on this topic.