ExxonMobil Aviation (Booth No. 1026) is now using its own equipment and staff to refuel business jets at Milan Linate Airport. The direct operation started in February. The company also announced that it has been awarded a six-year contract to supply aviation fuels to TAG Farnborough Airport in the UK. In addition, ExxonMobil will once again provide fuel and services during the Farnborough International Air Show in July.
EBACE Convention News » May 4, 2006
November 28, 2006 - 12:02pm
Michael Sattler, presently director of quality and technical services at Jet Aviation Basel, will take over as vice president and general manager of Jet Aviation Singapore, at Seletar Airport, effective June 15, the company announced here at EBACE. He will replace Thomas Rüdisühli, who will return to Switzerland and leave the Jet Aviation Group.
November 28, 2006 - 12:00pm
Michael Girps is the new vice president and general manager of Jet Aviation’s FBO at London Biggin Hill Airport, succeeding Stephen Koss. Since May 1, Girps has been responsible for maintenance and FBO services at the company’s facility, located southeast of the UK capital. He was previously in charge of Jet Aviation’s engineering services in San Antonio, Texas.
November 28, 2006 - 11:59am
Satellite communications service provider Satcom Direct (Booth No. 225) has introduced a new service called International Global One Number, or iGON, that allows customers to use “home country” telephone number prefixes when traveling. The service eliminates the need for customers who are based in Europe to dial a U.S.-prefix routing number when placing voice, fax or data calls.
November 28, 2006 - 11:56am
Expansion plans for both Biggin Hill and Southend Airports promise important benefits for business aircraft operators making for the UK capital. Both airports are prefixed “London,” but unlike some others that make similar claims they are in fact physically closer than many.
November 28, 2006 - 11:52am
B/E Aerospace (Booth No. 528), a leading manufacturer of cabin interior products for both airliners and business jets, is highlighting its lightweight Stratas passenger seat and new flex-arm LED reading light, along with other products, here at EBACE.
November 28, 2006 - 11:46am
A lightweight, easy-to-use jet inlet and exhaust protection system called Jet\Brella is being promoted here by Granitize (Booth No 1357), but may be seen in a typical application on a BBJ in the static display.
November 28, 2006 - 11:40am
A decade ago, many U.S. charter operators were voicing the same anxieties that their European counterparts are expressing today in their opposition to proposed new part-private part-commercial operating rules for fractional ownership. In short, they too believed that the major fractional providers would wipe them off the face of the earth, having been handed an unfair competitive advantage.
November 28, 2006 - 11:12am
As the debate within EBAA has raged over the past 12 months, opponents of the IWG-BAO’s recommendations for a European version of the Part 91K rules for fractional ownership have complained that the increased flexibility that these allow would give an unfair competitive advantage.
November 28, 2006 - 11:05am
The leadership of the European Business Aviation Association (EBAA) believes it has now reached a workable consensus on the complex and contentious issue of how to regulate fractional ownership operations. According to EBAA chief executive Brian Humphries, the key to achieving a solution that all parts of the industry can accept is an anticipated breakthrough in getting U.S.
