Click Aviation Network, a Dubai-based global network of aviation partners, is pleased to announce the official introduction of its revolutionary digital networking platform, Click Omega.
Rockwell Collins’ OEM-collaborated flight-deck upgrade takes the Challenger 604 way beyond mandates with touchscreen interfacing, synthetic vision, electronic navigation charts featuring own-ship positioning and much more for flights in modernizing global airspace.
UTC Aerospace Systems has launched a new product line from its Booth Veneers division. The FLite product series, including FLiteFlex and AlumiFLite, was developed to meet customers’ requests for veneers that are lighter, more flexible and less flammable.
MedAire, a company specializing in medical and security assistance for air travel, has devised a dedicated health and security briefing for the FIFA soccer World Cup.
Jet Aviation has signed a preferred FBO service agreement for facilities in EMEA and Asia with World Fuel Services, a global aviation fuel and services company based in Miami.
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.
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.
Despite 2017 being “a little bit depressed overall for business aviation in terms of volume of sales,” the first year has been “a great success,” for ACH.
The marketplace for app-based private-jet charter is becoming increasingly crowded, yet Jonny Nicol, founder of Stratajet, feels he has found a way for his company to stand out. “There is a chasm of difference between us and anybody else,” he argues.
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.
