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Business Q&A
Johnny Foster of OGARAJETS on piloting a business jet trader
Johnny Foster, president and CEO of OGARAJETS.
(special) Q: What are customers looking for in a pri
vate plane that they can’t get by flying com
mercial or charter?
The private jet is an ultimate sta
tus symbol - and transportation
convenience - for wealthy fami
lies and major corporation, and big
business at airfields like DeKalb-
Peachtree Airport. But where do
those planes come from?
Johnny Foster is president and
CEO of OGARAJETS, an internation
al broker of private jet and turbo
prop planes based in Sandy Springs.
The company buys, sells and finds
planes for clients. (For more infor
mation, see ogarajets.com.)
Johnny’s father, former Navy pi
lot John Foster III, co-founded the
company in 1980 in Marietta with
close friend Ed O’Gara as O’Gara
Aviation Company. Johnny Foster
was named president in 2005, and
in 2013, the company rebranded as
OGARAJETS, with the tag line, “Fostering confidence in business aircraft transactions”
as a way to keep both family names in the company.
The Reporter asked Foster about piloting the jet-trading business.
Again, time. Private aviation is a powerful tool allowing our clients to travel one their
own schedules and often direct to domestic cities or far away parts of the world that
would otherwise we hard to access by the airlines and sometimes only by a combination
Q: Who is the customer base for private
planes? Mostly corporations? Individuals?
Can you name any prominent customers?
Our client base spans more than 60 coun
tries and is blend of corporate and private
enterprises as well as high-net-worth indi
viduals. Of course we cannot name our cli
ents, but the one thing they all have in com
mon is a desire to make more use of their
time. Private aviation gives them back that
one commodity we all desire, more time -
more time to spend with our families, more
time to lead our communities, more time
to grow our businesses, and of course more
time to just relax in amazing places. Private
aviation remains the closest tool we have to
a time machine.
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