Hi James,
You circumnavigated every point I made, but remained in "sales mode". So I will put it more bluntly to you:
1. Wrong aircraft. Too expensive, too small, too much fuel burn, lousy take off and landing performance. Wring match against Hawker 750 - 850 and Citation XLS+ in Europe.
2. Russian money behind it is drying up.
3. Russiana are main target (black colour scheme), but russian millionaires will be out of money sooner than the made it in the 2002 to 2004's.
4. JB is a good talker but lousy manager. He keeps everybody outboard instead of onboard.
5. 6 on 4 off is worse than Netjets.
6. The legal side of the contract worth 90.000 is JUST as lousy as NetJets Europes legal side.
I am hoping the best for the pilot's interest as well. But you are not trying to get NetJets people in your operation since youre on-off schedule is worse and your pay is worse. So you are aiming at the group of pilots not aware of the critical succesfactors of a new startup. Together with the wrong airframe choice, good luck! (Let's talk again in may 2011....)