In the business aviation industry we don;t get a chance to see often that jobs in this sector may be booming, but according to AIN, their may be a need to start thinking about gearing up for a boom in the pilot business and the maintenance business in the next 20 years. According to Boeing, [...]

The doom and gloom of the economy and the business aviation industry seems to only get worse as we hear of other problems with Hawker Beechcraft and their latest news of layoffs as stated by AIN: “While there are pockets of growth in the global economy, the market for new production aircraft has stagnated at [...]

I was reading recently a report that talked about the summer numbers and how we have been doing here in the United States in the business aviation market and the numbers don;t look as great as we would like them, but they are stabilizing a bit in this crushing economic downturn.  The sales of some [...]

It was posted before about the possible strike for Cessna, but that seems to be averted although the news does not get better.  It is reported the production line workers were required to accept the new contract.  AIN reports that after that strike was averted, the news was not better: [Citation] will lay off 700 [...]

It comes with the old saw of “buy low and sell high”as we have been taught from the beginning of business 101.  In recent years the grim reaper seems to have gripped the economy and there seems to be a lot of gloom and doom in every corner of the business aviation industry.  The good [...]

In the tougher economic times that we have today, there is bound to be some fallout with businesses and their employees.  Cessna is apparently encountering that same problem now.  AIN reports that there may be a possible strike looming in the future over at Cessna: Cessna Aircraft made a new contract proposal on Monday that [...]

I had a chance to catch up on some of my reading this week on what is happening in the market and I found an interesting snippet at AINOnline: “Elevated used inventory, attractive used pricing and macro uncertainty continue to hold down demand for new business jets,” JPMorgan Equity Research noted in its latest business [...]

We are continuing to get reports from all of the sectors in the industry that the slide has slowed and the recovery has begun.  It may be wishful thinking on the part of many of the manufacturers at this point but not for two separate business jet companies. Business Jet Traveler reports that Bombardier CEO [...]

Operation Skyshield will have its 50th anniversary tomorrow on September 10, 2010. Only the World Trade Center attacks has resulted in the entire North American continent being shut down to all aircraft since the tests that were run by the U.S. and Canadian governments in Operation Skyshield. In an attempt to test the effectiveness of [...]

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