Wheels Up is streamlining sales and operations and achieving initial efficiencies from fleet simplification and better aligning its overhead cost structure.
Embraer delivered 38 executive jets during the second quarter of 2025, compared to 27 for the same period a year ago–an increase from 23 during the first quarter of 2025.
On the verge of bankruptcy more than a year ago, Wheels Up, a provider of on-demand private flights, is now in a “very different place," CEO George Mattson tells the Aviation Week Network. “It was a whole team effort.”
Embraer Executive Jets President and CEO Michael Amalfitano and Flexjet CEO Michael J. Silvestro discuss their $7 billion deal for 182 Phenom and Praetor jets.
The transition is partially fueled by acquisition of GrandView Aviation’s entire fleet of 17 Phenom 300 and 300E aircraft at a purchase price of $105 million.
It's the job of “Top Gun: Maverick” aerial coordinator and lead pilot Kevin LaRosa II to position the Phenom to capture the best possible air-to-air footage.
The training specialist forecasts that in less than 10 years, more than 8,000 bizav pilots and 10,000 private jet MRO technicians will be needed in Europe alone.
The president and CEO of Embraer Executive Jets talks with Aviation Week about the market. Phenom 300 success, supply chain issues and advanced air mobility.
ExecuJet MRO Services Africa, at Lanseria International Airport near Johannesburg, has been approved by Embraer as an authorized business jet service center.
Embraer Executive Jets has delivered the first limited-edition Phenom 300E light jet as part of its “Duet” collaboration with German automaker Porsche, Embraer announced June 30.
GrandView Aviation announced on Dec. 1 that it has received three new Embraer Phenom 300s, bringing to 10 the number of light jets in the charter operator’s fleet.
Embraer Executive Jets has received type certification for its Phenom 300E light jet from the National Civil Aviation Agency of Brazil (ANAC), the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the FAA, the company announced March 27.
Embraer’s popular Phenom 300E light jet is undergoing an upgrade with improvements in performance, comfort and technology as well as an optional new refined interior called the Bossa Nova, reminiscent of Brazilian jazz.
Embraer’s enhanced Phenom 300E boasts a very nice cabin – and behind it is a NICE HD cabin management and in-flight entertainment system from Lufthansa Technik’s Original Equipment Innovation product division.
Board Embraer’s new Phenom 300E, short for 300 Enhanced, and you’ll find cabin accoutrements that look like they’ve been lifted from the firm’s $20 million Legacy 500.