Business aviation’s alphabet groups have launched the “sustainable alternative jet fuel” (SAJF) initiative, an awareness effort to curb the industry’s greenhouse gas emissions.
In the business aviation sector, some of the entities that have been pursuing fresh approaches to the market have been around long enough to feel properly established.
Rheinland Air Service is growing its business aircraft handling and FBO activities at Munich’s alternate executive airport in Oberpfaffenhofen. Now, with the airport under new owners, it plans a dramatic expansion.
Like a number of disruptive companies in the business aviation sector, VistaJet is enjoying fast rates of growth. In the 2017 financial year, the Malta-based global aviation outfit saw its flight revenues grow 22%, while flight hours in the U.S. increased by 39%.
Business aircraft broker Boutsen Aviation is showing an Airbus A319 Corporate Jet at this year’s EBACE, “the largest aircraft to be displayed by the company to date.”
Designing a US$72 million business jet that can fly 7,700 nm and includes a four-zone cabin layout requires special attention to every detail, Bombardier officials note.
Embraer is talking up a host of cabin and cockpit improvements to its Legacy 450 and 500 business jets, and is showing new seats for the aircraft for the first time on a Legacy 450.
German completions center Lufthansa Technik has become an approved outfitter for VVIP ACJ350 XWB aircraft following extensive evaluation by Airbus Corporate Jets.
Piaggio Aerospace has won orders for four P.180 Avanti EVO business aircraft so far this year in a vote from the market that a recent restructuring and cash injection of 225 million euros will ensure its future.
Embraer is talking up a host of cabin and cockpit improvements to its Legacy 450 and 500 business jets, and is showing new seats for the aircraft for the first time on a Legacy 450.
Like a number of disruptive companies in the business aviation sector, VistaJet is enjoying fast rates of growth. In the 2017 financial year, the Malta-based global aviation outfit saw its flight revenues grow 22%, while flight hours in the U.S. increased by 39%.
ExecuJet is announcing a strategic alliance for maintenance services between its MRO facility in Lagos and local operator Izy Air, based in Abuja, Nigeria.
The chairman and CEO of the parent company of iconic French business aircraft and fighter jet manufacturer Dassault Aviation died May 28 after suffering heart failure at his office in Paris.
