The perception that private business aviation travel is a luxury only for the rich has been changing for the better during the COVID-19 pandemic as more first-time users come into the industry.
Flexjet has reached carbon-neutral flight operations through a carbon-credit program via a partnership with 4AIR, the fractional private jet travel provider says.
The official start of perhaps the key driver behind the U.S. airport system’s success can be traced to May 13, 1946—the day President Harry S. Truman signed the Federal Airport Act into law.
BCA editor Bill Carey speaks with Vishal Hiremath, co-founder of fractional ownership company JetIt, about plans to launch sister company JetClub in Europe.
Business aviation flight activity in the U.S. continues to recover, with activity only down 5% in April compared to April 2019, according to WingX Advance.
Last month, PCX Aerosystems announced it was buying nearby Senior Aerospace Connecticut. This month, Greenbriar Equity Group announced it will buy PCX from RFE Investment Partners.
The organizers of Aero Friedrichschafen in Germany, which had been postponed until July, have canceled the event for the second year in a row because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Zero-emissions propulsion startup Universal Hydrogen has raised $20.5 million in Series A funding from investors including the venture arms of Airbus, JetBlue Airways and Toyota.
Europe is looking to business aviation to take the lead in adopting sustainable aviation fuels because of its greater willingness compared with the airlines to pay a premium for low-carbon fuel, at least until production is scaled up and prices come down.
An alliance has been launched with the goal of accelerating investment in sustainable aviation fuels by creating a certificate system that provides a standardized approach to verifying and tracking the emissions reductions from the low-carbon fuels.
Morf3D, an additive manufacturing startup that once was the darling of Boeing new-investment efforts, has a new 90,000-sq.-ft. headquarters in Long Beach, California, and is now controlled by Japanese camera giant Nikon.
ExpressJet, a U.S. regional carrier that stopped flying in September, is seeking permission to begin scheduled commercial operations under its own brand.
A coalition representing every segment of the U.S. civil aviation industry is urging the Biden administration’s recently unveiled American Jobs Plan to include performance-based measures to spur sustainable aviation fuel production.
Dutch investment company Panta Holdings has acquired Fokker Services and Fokker Techniek, aviation aftermarket businesses, from Fokker Technologies/GKN Aerospace.
