Bombardier CEO Alain Bellemare has announced plans to slow production of the Global 5000/6000 from its current rate of around 80 aircraft a year because of softness in the business aviation market
After expanding its aircraft sales activity seven months ago, EAN Aviation, the Lagos, Nigeria-based business aviation services company, has completed three sales and acquisitions.
At home, it’s easy to wish that a stack of dirty dishes in the kitchen would just fly away. Lufthansa Technik and Jet Aviation Basel now have ways to do that in flight.
Textron Aviation hopes to achieve FAA certification of its midsized $16.25 million Citation Latitude this month, CEO Scott Ernest said during a press conference Monday.
The big get bigger and smaller operators rethink their future as a wave of consolidation breaks across Europe’s business jet management and operating industry.
While business aviation sales have slowed generally in China, according to many aircraft manufacturers, the pace of flight operations at Shanghai continues to increase.
Flying Colours Corp., the North American-based maintenance, repair and overhaul, completion and refurbishment specialist, has won an order for the completion of three new Bombardier Challenger 650s.
Aviation Week recently sampled the new touch-screen Pro Line Fusion cockpit in Rockwell Collins’ King Air 250 demonstrator on a flight from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to Rockford, Illinois.
Plans to establish the Middle East’s second regional, biannual business aviation show are swinging into high gear in Morocco and at the Middle East and North Africa Business Aviation Association.
The Citation Latitude is the latest proof that Textron Aviation is back on its feet, largely recovered from the Great Recession and fully competing for its historic share of the business jet market. For more than four decades, Citation engineers have been business aviation’s undisputed masters of iteration and the Latitude embraces this low-risk design approach to perfection.
Business Aviation in Europe has been beset by problems ranging from political to practical—sanctions and market saturation have taken their toll. But now manufacturers are seeing some upward movement.