Stories of air rage continue to pop up in the media, including the recent and well-publicized battle between Alec Baldwin and American Airlines. Managers of commercial airports recognize that air travel is often unpleasant and stressful for consumers. In response, airports are scrambling to find new ways to provide better customer service, reduce frustrations and [...]
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 [...]
Several lengthy reports and laundry lists of expectations for the state of the business aviation market have been released over the past couple of months and weeks. Corporate Jet Insider took some time to compile the data into a quickly accessible, easy-to-digest format. Thanks to the good people at Conklin & deDecker and Aviation International [...]
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 [...]
In light of the post yesterday where I pontificate about the recovery of the private jet industry, Marc Yahr of L&L International sends me another forecast that he recently read from GlobalAir.com. I love the ending paragraph of the post by David Wyndham: I’ve seen Richard Aboulafia of the Teal Group present his firm’s aviation [...]
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 [...]
After reading about Avtrak in some aviation news I had a look at there operation. They are here close to me in my area and I wanted to get familiar with their operation. AIN reports that Avtrak is expanding its operations in Mexico and is soon growing beyond its capacity at its current location and [...]
