The 'bizjet set': Business aviation and the social geographies of private flight

International Business Travel in the Global Economy

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 85-104

  Budd, Lucy ^a   Hubbard, Phil ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

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