Business aviation is an intensely competitive industry, but that doesn't mean that there isn't scope – and need – for co-operation.

The VIP large aircraft industry is busy. But exactly how busy, and for how long depends on who is being queried.

True capitalists are always looking for new ways to expand business, and with the tropical chill there now warming, U.S. business leaders – and the aircraft that carry them – are pointing south to Cuba, that Communist white-beach bastion, and market, seemingly frozen in time.

In a flat market for new aircraft, the best place to focus your resources is on the aftermarket, believes Craig Olson, Rockwell Collins’ vice president and general manager for business and regional aviation.

Liebherr Aerospace is exhibiting state-of-the-art systems and components from its product lines at this year’s show.

AMAC is one of the busier cabin completion, refurbishment and MRO centers with three completion projects currently under way as well as three refurbishments.

The famous mangled quotation attributed to the late New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra might apply to the tepid state of the FBO industry for this year and last. And yet, there are signs that this service industry is improving slowly but steadily in some quarters.

Evaluating the completion and refurbishment industry, Greenpoint Technologies sees “positive signs” with outfitted BBJ747-8s already being delivered to customers, and deliveries of completed BBJ787s expected to begin as early as next year.