Business Aviation

Horizon Air Group, based in Dallas, has changed its name to Leviate after acquiring Word Class Jet, known as Starbase Jet, in August.

Early leaders in the rapidly evolving electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) market are emerging.

Bombardier Business Aircraft has introduced 12 new product enhancements for Bombardier in-service aircraft.

Business activity in Europe rose 4.5% in February with 57,037 flights. Business jet departures rose 3% in February, while charter activity grew 5%.

XTI Aircraft is preparing papers to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission to increase the price of its shares from $1 to a minimum of $1.50.

Wijet, a European air taxi service, has placed an order for 16 HondaJet very light business jets, the company says.

Spirit AeroSystems CEO and President Tom Gentile says he is watching what is happening at rival and supplier GKN Aerospace.

Spirit AeroSystems believes new additive manufacturing techniques it is developing could help the company eventually save 70% in costs on aircraft material.

Dassault CEO Eric Trappier is seeing signs of recovery on the business jet market, which, however, remains “very difficult.”

Dassault CEO Eric Trappier is seeing signs of recovery on the business jet market, which, however, remains “very difficult.”

In the past month, Textron Aviation’s Citation Longitude super midsize business jet has traveled the globe on a world tour of the aircraft.

JetSuiteX is offering flights to Indio, California, for the 2018 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival.

Boutsen Aviation has completed two aircraft sales in one week, both in the Middle East region.

If you can’t find a suitable partner to provide ground services for your executive jet offering, why not create your own? Continue by opening training academies, start organising airlines… and then set up one yourself. That, as Alan Dron reports, is the remarkable story of Saudi Arabia’s Nexus.

The pilot shortage. Oh boy, it's here in spades, says Charlie Priester, chairman of Chicago's Priester Aviation charter and aircraft management firm. And my opinion is it's going to get a lot worse.

William Garvey, editor-in-chief of BCA, interviews Paula Kraft, CEO and owner of catering company Tastefully Yours and managing partner and cofounder of DaVinci Inflight Training Institute.

Now that the E190-E2 is nearing service entry, Embraer has some difficult decisions to make as to its next big investment.

Previously announced winners, Philip J. Klass Lifetime Achievement Award recipients and Tomorrow's Leaders also were honored.

The business jet industry is warily watching President Trump’s unilateral decision March 1 to impose tariffs of 25% and 10% on imported steel and aluminum.

Embraer delivered 109 executive jets in 2017 with plans to deliver from 105 to 125 jets in 2018, the company said.

A bipartisan group of senators has introduced a bill to address the technician shortage issue posing a threat to the U.S. aviation maintenance industry.

Aerion has named Tom Vice, former president of Northrop Grumman’s Aerospace Systems sector, as president and chief operating officer.

How the aviation industry treats its employees is one factor in attracting young people to the industry.

Executive AirShare, based in Lenexa, Kansas, is tackling a pilot shortage by raising its pilot salaries an average of 25% and improving work schedules.

Bombardier saw its stock price slump almost 6% in regular trading March 6, after the Montreal company announced it was selling about $500 million in new shares.