Private Aviation Customers Are Changing: Here’s How Sentient Jet Is Adapting w/ Alan Walsh

The Aerospace Executive Podcast · Jul 9, 2026 · 50m

Private aviation is no longer serving the same buyer, the same use case, or the same expectation set that it was built around twenty years ago.

The old assumption was simple: private aviation was mainly for the already-initiated: aircraft owners, experienced charter users, corporate flight departments, or people who already understood the difference between aircraft categories, operating models, and access options.

That market still exists, but a new buyer is entering the industry with a very different set of questions.

They are wealthier, often younger, more digitally fluent, more…