Although there is a crisis there is also a small positve factor in this unfair social equation: the scissors between rich and poor are opening more and more - so the rich are actually getting richer and the market for flexible private jets is growing all over the globe.
Always nice to see someone out of the industry posting the facts - mirrors my personal experience as well, just a few guys manage to slip in here and there for reasons of luck or connections (or disadvantaged in the past), if your not one of them, you'll just have to do what we others all do: take one step at a time at the right time. I am enjoying the ladders, just hope there will not be too many snakes for me