Business aircraft flying in Europe eked out a gain of just 0.1 percent last month, with 63,602 departures recorded in the region, according to data released today by WingX Advance. The overall improvement stems from 2-percent growth in business jet activity; business turboprop and piston activity dragged down the results, declining between 2 and 3 percent. Year-to-date, flying in the region is tra...
Jetex announced a new Fixed Base Operator (FBO) location in Marseille, France today. Following the 2009 success of Jetex's first FBO in Paris Le Bourget, this new FBO in Marseille continues the company's progressive expansion throughout the region. The latest Jetex FBO location offers VIP travelers easy access to the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of&n...
Traxxall Technologies, providers of innovative aircraft maintenance tracking systems, today announced a partnership with RocketRoute, developers of cloud-based flight planning systems, and new client GlobeAir, a leading air taxi operator based in Austria. Traxxall Technologies was founded on the conclusion that pre-existing aircraft maintenance tracking systems were inadequate. A “clean s...
Leading aircraft charter specialist, Air Charter Service, arranged the inaugural private jet flight from Dubai Al Maktoum’s new VIP terminal on an Embraer Legacy. The terminal is the world’s first 7-star airport facility and this flight marked the beginning of operations at the private aviation-dedicated terminal. It is an impressive structure - a 5,600m² stand-alone terminal o...
Embraer has delivered Japan’s first E190 to J-Air, which will deploy the aircraft on its first revenue flight on the Osaka Itami-Kagoshima route on 10 May. The aircraft, registered JA241J, is powered by General Electric CF34 engines and features a dual class cabin with 15 business and 80 economy seats. This is the second E-Jet type to be operated by the Japan Airlin...
Rockwell Collins recently completed the Production Readiness Review (PRR) for Common Range Integrated Instrumentation System (CRIIS), paving the way for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to award Production Lot 1. The PRR was done in cooperation with the Test Resource Management Center (TRMC) and CRIIS System Program Office (SPO) at Eglin Air Force Base. Rockwell Collins is the prime contrac...
This week, the Latvian airline airBaltic celebrates the 20th anniversary of its Riga – Minsk service. Since 1996, airBaltic has carried almost 210 thousand passengers on the route and today it offers convenient connections between the cities and beyond to destinations in the Baltic region and Scandinavia. Wolfgang Reuss, SVP of Network Management of airBaltic: “We started out in Min...
P1, the first production version of the Cirrus Vision SF50 single-engine jet, took off from Duluth (Minn.) International Airport on Thursday, flown by test pilot Terry LeSage. “Pilot feedback on P1 is simple,” he said. “The aircraft handled just great. It was not noticeably different from C2 [the third conforming test article], with handling qualitie...
BlackJet the Florida-headquartered private jet charter service backed by celebrities including Jay-Z and Ashton Kutcher has closed its doors. In an email sent to members of the service that was that was also backed by Uber co-founder and chairman Garrett Camp chief executive of the company Dean Rotchin said that “bad press” had “stunted membership sales”. Rotchin said th...
JETS Biggin Hill has gained a new five-year extension approval as a Dassault authorised service centre for the Falcon 900 and 2000 business jets series.The company is currently expanding their maintenance capability. Growing market demand for minimum down-time for hard-working business jet aircraft has also enabled JETS to introduce a seven-day a week, 12 hours per day shift pattern for the eng...
An astonishing picture has emerged of a square-shaped tyre on a British Airways A380 that touched down at London's Heathrow Airport. Aviation experts have been left baffled by the misshapen deflated wheel, which was part of the landing gear on a flight that arrived from Hong Kong on Friday. The Civil Aviation Authority described the incident as 'curious', a serving pilot admitted...
Part of the flying experience is peering out the window to get a peek at the clouds, blue sky, and whatever city you may be traveling above. One thing you don’t want to see while gazing at the heavens? Something wrong with the engine. The Tennessean reports that a Delta flight headed from Atlanta to Chicago had to make an emergency landing in Nashville on Sunday after encountering turbule...
