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Corp. jet orders rise despite lingering stigma of excess.

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Business jets--whether owned, fractionally held or chartered--continue to gain usage among U.S.-based corporations, according to manufacturers and operators, despite the federal Sarbanes-Oxley law's continual chokehold on corporate malfeasance and lingering perceptions of jet usage as corporate excess.

The 2002 law continues to shake up how public companies based in the United States monitor and document business processes, but companies have been able to create--and document--strong business cases for use of jets.

"Sarbanes-Oxley doesn't say you can't do something," said John Ohaver, vice president of corporate travel consulting firm Management Alternatives. "It just says, make a business case for what you're doing and document it. Before, it was those in the executive suite that just wanted to have it. Now, we actually have the auditors, the risk managers and the travel managers agree to it and say,...