This week we feature our 14th annual listing of the Top 10 Leaders of European Business Aviation - those who are helping create demand for business aviation through clever marketing and technical innovation.
Jonny Nicol, Founder and CEO of Stratajet, spent four and a half years trying to make the code that would allow his price comparison app deliver the holy grail of business aviation – instant real-time online booking.
China Minsheng Investment Corp’s 33% stake in Luxaviation made possible the acquisition last year of ExecuJet Aviation Group, forming the world’s second largest corporate aircraft operator after NetJets. Now Luxaviation Group plans a further spate of acquisitions.
Unique among the aircraft in the static display at EBACE is the first outfitted BBJ 787-8, its impressive stature brooking no dissent to the claim that it is the largest jet ever to appear here.
“Unless there is some accident, we are going to announce at EBACE the acquisition of 16 additional FBOs in Europe, Africa and other places,” says Michel Tohane, Director of General Aviation Business at Aeroports de la Côte d’Azur .
It’s refreshing to see global private jet charter booking company Victor’s claim that it’s doing well backed up by The Sunday Times in its Hiscox Tech Track 100 for 2015, where Victor came 15th and was the only aviation company listed.
When it comes to supporting business jet engines in service, Rolls-Royce’s CorporateCare engine maintenance program has evolved from sparking market interest to generating market demand.
A huge black five-bladed carbon fiber Hartzell prop distinguishes the 2016 PC-12NG and is largely responsible for its greater speed, range and performance. BCA’s Fred George flew the aircraft earlier this year.
The economic slowdown and shrinking overall demand for business aviation services in Russia has not affected the expansion plans of A-Group, which operates FBOs at Moscow-Sheremetyevo and St. Petersburg-Pulkovo airports.
Moscow’s Domodedovo Business Aviation Center is expanding services for travelers flying business class on the commercial airlines as private jet operations have been decreasing for the past two years.
Jet Aviation reports U.S. FAA approval to provide scheduled and unscheduled maintenance, airframe and engine repairs, avionics modifications, inspections and defect rectifications on U.S.-registered aircraft at Moscow Vnukovo.
Textron Aviation is opening the order book for its new clean-sheet single-engine turboprop, the company announced here yesterday as it lifted the veil on performance specifications for the aircraft.
Manuals and record-keeping have become increasingly complex in all areas of business and general aviation, from operations to maintenance. But with digitization, data can be accessed, updated and stored more efficiently than ever before.
Cessna has mated the wing and fuselage of the first Citation Longitude. The milestone was passed just six months after the new aircraft was revealed at last year’s NBAA convention.
Going head-to-head here for the first time anywhere are the VVIP Boeing 787 Dreamliner and Airbus’s A350 XWB, both considered an ultimate in billionaire or head-of-state travel.
