Business & Commercial Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
The tables show Jet-A and avgas prices from a survey of U.S. fuel suppliers conducted in April 2019.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
VistaJet recently launched VistaPet, which it calls the most comprehensive program designed to ensure all passengers feel welcome.
Business Aviation

By Graham Warwick
Harbour Air, North America's largest seaplane airline, has partnered with motor developer magniX to convert its fleet to electric propulsion.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Bombardier recently delivered a Global 7500 to the model's first European customer: Formula One driver and world champion Niki Lauda.

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Dassault Aviation says it plans to acquire ExecuJet's MRO business at Subang Airport in Malaysia as it strengthens its aftermarket support in Southeast Asia.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
GE Aviation reports its CT7-2F1 engine received FAA certification following more than 1,000 flight hours and more than 1,350 hr. of turn time.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
FlightSafety International and TRU Simulation + Training have formed FlightSafety Textron Aviation Training to provide instruction services on Textron Aviation's product line of business and general aviation aircraft.
Business Aviation

By Kirby Harrison
Eccelsa Aviation is an FBO in Sardinia and for most of the year, it's a relatively quiet place. But each June, that changes and there are few busier FBOs.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Icon Aircraft, maker of the amphibious Icon A5, has opened its first sales and demonstration center, at Santa Monica Municipal Airport in California.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey
Questions for William Korner, chairman and CEO of Flight Research Inc. and The International Flight Test Institute, Mojave Air & Space Port, Mojave, California.
Business Aviation

It seemed nothing would go right for Ameristar Charters Flight 9363 until the captain averted tragedy by aborting the takeoff after accelerating through V1.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Jetex has opened its third location in Japan—at Kansai International Airport. It adds to the existing Jetex portfolio of 56 locations in 26 countries.
Business Aviation

By Jessica A. Salerno
Selected accidents and incidents from March 2019. The NTSB information is preliminary.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
World Fuel Services is now supplying Gateway Aviation Services at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Bombardier has concluded the sale of its flight training and technical activities to CAE in a transaction valued at $645 million.
Business Aviation

By Kirby Harrison
By the 1920s, it was apparent that with larger aircraft carrying growing numbers of people, there a cabin crewmember was needed to take care of passengers.
Business Aviation

By Kirby Harrison
The job of the business aviation flight attendant is one of myriad opportunities and challenges.
Business Aviation

By James Albright
Whenever I witness a transport airplane cross a runway threshold by a few feet, I think back to all the accidents in which aiming for “brick one” ended badly.
Business Aviation

By Patrick Veillette, Ph.D.
Although transport aircraft have three independent speed-sensing systems, environmental factors such as high-altitude ice crystals have the potential to remove this redundancy and create simultaneous failures.
Business Aviation

By Patrick Veillette, Ph.D.
The accurate display of airspeed information at high altitude is vital because the margins between the low-speed and high-speed buffet margins can be thin.
Business Aviation

By Kirby Harrison
The Corporate School of Etiquette was launched by a former corporate flight attendant to focus on the finer areas of service skills and culinary arts training.
Business Aviation

By Patrick Veillette, Ph.D.
FBW systems present a special challenge in the event of inaccurate airspeed indications caused by reversion to laws/modes that alter flight envelope protection.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
A pair of Bombardier Global 6000s have been delivered to Turkey to be prepared for a conversion process that will turn them into standoff jammer platforms.
Business Aviation

Thomas Hirschmann, former Jet Aviation chairman and CEO, died April 3 in Zurich of an undisclosed illness. He was 64.
Business Aviation

Status: Capital (Moscow), largest city, financial and cultural center Country visa requirement: Required for passengers and crew; for tech stops, generally unnecessary, but as this policy varies from airport to airport, operators are advised to obtain visas as a backup. At Moscow, flight crews can obtain visas on arrival. However, the process is time-consuming and not recommended by flight planning agencies.
Business Aviation