Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. I'm Manuela Saragossa. Coming up, the wealthy individuals and businesses doing well amid the COVID pandemic.

We're finding that there's been an increase. So the people who used to travel first or business class are now coming into private aviation. We're having record months.

And those who aren't cheering that.

I mean, you can't have 600 billionaires in the US

make a trillion dollars when so many people have lost their livelihoods.

I mean, you just can't keep doing that

and expect that civil society is going to hold together.

That's all here in Business Daily from the BBC.

We have aircraft with two or three cabins inside, dining room area,

aircraft which then have a full bedroom and shower.

That's John Matthews, chairman and founder of Aerex,

a private jet hire company, describing some of the aircraft he leases out.

The Embraea lineage we have, which has a shower at the back, double bed, it has a dining area and a lounge.

We're finding that there's been an increase. So the people who used to travel first or business class are now

coming into private aviation. And whether that be at a small turbo prop or light jet level or

a transcontinental jet, there is a flow of people coming from first and business class cabins to

private aviation. AirX is among several private jet operators that have reported an

influx of new business from first-time users, users willing to fork out a premium to travel in a way

that avoids contact with the general public. We're having record months. We are now able to take

most of what the market has to deliver and that market has more to deliver than it did

this time last year without a shadow of a doubt. So what kind of people are hiring private jets at

the moment? I mean, is the profile of your typical customer changing? Yes. So we have a lot of

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