Episode Details

Asia’s private jet map is being redrawn. In this episode, we look at why China’s once-booming market for private planes is stalling—squeezed by anti-ostentation crackdowns, an economic slowdown, and fewer billionaires—while India’s is taking off fast. A new class of Indian wealthy buyers is snapping up jets not for show, but for practicality, using them intensively to leapfrog poor infrastructure. The contrast reveals two very different models of wealth, politics, and mobility—and raises a bigger question: as India’s skies fill up, will this boom stay airborne, or face the same limits that grounded China’s?

https://www.economist.com/asia/2025/07/24/the-new-private-jet-pecking-order