Much has been made of the Obama administration’s plan to reorganize funding for air traffic control. General aviation has always paid for air traffic control through a fuel tax. Now, Obama plans to change that to a flat fee — $100 per flight. This proposed fee, projected to raise $11 billion before 2022, was unveiled [...]
The media and general public may not understand the value of private aircraft, but successful businesses do. Private jets are not for show and comfort. Rather, they are an important — often indispensable — tool in the battle for business, especially as many companies are fighting their way out of recession. Frequent business travelers say [...]
November has been an important month in business aviation. Growing markets in the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) as well as changes to U.S. appropriations affect the industry significantly. Also, the private jet community pays homage to an incredible leader, Teddy Forstmann. New Association to Support Growth in Chinese Private Aircraft Market The [...]
I have been following closely the “Occupy Wall Street” protests going on around the country to see if their protests have reached us here in the area of business aviation. To date, I have yet to see any specific attacks on the industry in spite of the fact that private and corporate jets and a [...]
It is day 2 of the 64th Annual National Business Aviation Association’s event in Las Vegas and it is at a fever pitch and is at its peak. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) was one of the speakers at the event and he talked about the benefits of business aviation and how it helps our country. [...]
We continue to hear about how the business aviation industry is turning around or is in a rebound cycle and that all of the nations that participate in the industry on on an upturn. The good news is that this is the beginning of something good for the business aviation industry as a whole. The [...]
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 [...]
We have heard the old saying that perception is reality and it appears that the perceptions of the public are what is being touted as the next need for change in the business aviation industry. In opening remarks at the EBACE event in Geneva Switzerland it was stated by Brian Humphries the EBAA chairman, “Recognition [...]
May 17 through 19 marks the 11th annual EBACE event in Geneva, Switzerland. We are looking forward to hearing many of the exhibitors and others give us an idea how the industry is performing. This time last year we were hearing all about how the economy was putting a damper on jet sales or orders [...]
