Business Aviation

Pricing pressures, training toils, illegal charters and more.

We offer advice on how to avoid airspace incursions and what to do when they happen.

Fractional operator Flexjet’s focus on luxury leads to big investments in jets at the high end of the market.

The Transportation Department has approved SkyWest Charter's application to operate scheduled passenger flights as a commuter air carrier under Part 380.

The private aviation mogul behind Luxaviation UK weighs in on UK and European charter trends.

Daher has started a sales effort in Central and South America, especially Brazil, for its Kodiak utility turboprop single.

EMBRAER delivered 41 business jets (23 Phenoms/18 Praetors) in 3Q25 vs 41 (22 Phenoms/19 Praetors) in 3Q24; and 102 (58 Phenoms/44 Praetors) in Jan-Sep 2025 vs 86 (53 Phenoms/33 Praetors) in Jan-Sep 2024. It plans to deliver 145-155 in CY25.

SyberJet CEO Trevor Milton is basing his just-announced $14 million SyberJet SJ36 nine-seat light jet on the former SJ30-2.

Embraer delivered a total of 62 aircraft during the third quarter of 2025.

CITADEL COMPLETIONS, LA announced redelivery of reconfigured/refurbished of a 757 VIP for an NBA franchise in US.

HAMBURG COMMERCIAL BANK (HCOB) agreed to sell its aviation finance portfolio, comprising exclusively performing loans totaling US$450m, to DEUTSCHE BANK as part of a multi-stage bidding process; it is exiting aviation market.

MightyFly has signed a five-year, $50 million contract for same-day delivery of medical test kits using its hybrid eVTOL uncrewed cargo aircraft.

That jet you reserved for charter isn’t sitting in a hangar, polished and waiting for you. Instead, it’s crisscrossing the skies, battling inclement weather, ferrying families with kids and pets, and serving passengers who don’t treat it like their own.

PWI has FAA PMA for its LED cabin lighting system for Beechjet/Hawker 400A/XP, replacing fluorescent lights.

SKYRYSE, CA unveiled AI-based Skylar flight assistant for its SkyOS universal operating system that monitors ATIS, ATC, and weather to provide safer flight operations, optimize routes/fuel burn, and reduce pilot workload.

DASSAULT AVIATION officially opened 110,760 sq meter production facility at Cergy (operational since mid-2024) for assembly of Falcon and Rafale skin panels, small parts and forward fuselages, outfitting Rafale fuselages, and producing metal hoses. It has taken over Argenteuil operations, excluding small primary part production, which was moved to Seclin.

Cirrus has delivered four of seven SR20 G7+ airplanes with Garmin Autoland to Texas Southern University (TSU).

The U.S. government funding lapse has left the FAA operating with 75% of its staff, a U.S. Transportation Department summary of the agency’s plan shows.

Kennedy Ricci is president of 4Air, a provider of sustainability programs for business aviation operators, based in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Oxford-based OXCCU has raised $28 million in Series B financing to scale up its one-step process to convert waste carbon into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).

Yingling Aviation has launched an airframe and powerplant (A&P) mechanic apprenticeship program to address a growing industry demand for skilled technicians.

The government of Peru has expanded its emergency response fleet with the addition of a second Beechcraft King Air 360C air ambulance.

Airbus Helicopters has named the town of Vemagal in India as the location for a new final assembly line for the H125 single-engine light helicopter.

A former U.S. Navy Seal gives advice on the critical strategies and tools business professionals should use when traveling in high-risk areas abroad.

LUMINAIR, Hamburg, Germany took delivery of its second Falcon 900LX from Dassault; it has two more due by end of 2025 to increase company's overall charter fleet to five Cessna Citation XLS+ and four Falcon 900LX business jets.