BizJet International, the Tulsa corporate and general aviation aircraft maintenance, repair, and overhaul company, is laying off 14 people or 6.5 percent of its employees, company executives said Wednesday.

The lost jobs are casualties of the recession and the political climate toward corporate aircraft as luxury "toys," said President and CEO Bernd Kowalewski.

"With the present political climate, corporate flight departments are shutting down," he said. "It's considered politically incorrect to have a corporate flight department. I've heard that 20 percent of the corporate fleet is for sale."

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