The slow and bumpy market recovery for business aircraft is expected to continue into the next decade, according to a report from Forecast International, a Connecticut market research firm. Sputtering U.S. and European economies have forced demand for business jets lower than the rising demand for private aircraft in the Middle East, Brazil, Russia, India [...]

Embraer joins in the news at EBACE when it received an order today and announced at the event that Comlux has placed an order for three of the Embraer Lageacy 650′s with the possibility of increasing the order for 4 more of the aircraft. This marks the very first order for the Legacy 650′s from [...]

We continue to get good news from the industry and this is a trend at the EBACE event in Geneva, Switzerland. The latest in good news comes from VistaJet a Swiss business jet operator. The company announced today at the event that they have an order for 18 Bombardier business jets, which will bring its [...]

It was only a few years ago that Embraer was a minor player in the corporate jet industry with only a 3 percent share.  It is making great strides recently in the business aviation industry having gained that number to nearly 20%.  The company that is based in Brazil is taking the line of mid-size [...]

I talked earlier about the fact that the holidays were over for charter jet companies, however, it does seem that at least one wholly owned company in the charter jet world is seeing growth over this time last year.  XOJet, based out of Brisbane and California, is reporting that they are up 50% over the [...]

Bombardier is joining the announcements coming out of the National Business Aviation Association in Atlanta this week.  Bombardier is introducing two new jets that are geared for long range.  The Global 7000 and the Global 8000.  The Global 7000 is the larger of the jets and has a 7300 nautical mile range.  The Global 7000 [...]

Don’t get too excited about a quick recovery as the recovery is not set for another year according to Honeywell, the avionics, equipment and engine manufacturer.  The report that Honeywell is reporting on indicates that there should be one more year of an economic slide in store for the business aviation industry in 2011, with [...]

The company over at Bombardier has been working hard to stay competitive and the folks over at AIN have been keeping up with the story since they released the information about Bombardier talking about a competitor to the Gulfstream 650. Bombardier announced at the NBAA show that they are launching a new “Global Aircraft Family”.  [...]

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 [...]