Contributors Nellie Day, Becky Bergman and editor Daniel D. Williams of Real Estate Southern California contributed to this article.

With real estate becoming an increasingly opportunistic as well as global business, it's only fitting that some industry players would embrace potential revenue streams found in the friendly skies, whether that be through the use of corporate jets, transport of air cargo or redevelopment of existing airports.

The Jet Set
Air travel certainly makes meeting clients and their demands easier, though most commuter airports will advise you to arrive three hours prior to a flight departure. This means that, if you're traveling round trip in one day, you've just spent at least six hours trying to get to your client or the property in question.

Not so, however, if you're traveling by private or corporate jet. "The ability to travel on your own schedule is the prime advantage [of our service], but we're also able to utilize thousands of airports the airlines can't or don't use," says Henry Schubach, president of Carlsbad-based Schubach Aviation and a certified corporate jet pilot with more than 29 years of aviation experience. "The result is less net travel time and a far more productive day for the business traveler, with no lost time on security, checking or retrieving luggage, hassles with rental cars, etc. Because of the time savings at the airport, a busy traveler can visit two or three cities in a single day, and still be home for dinner, a mission simply not possible on the airlines today."