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Flight Options Pilots Finally Have a Tentative Contract
February 04, 2010
International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 1108, the union for Flight Options’ 500 pilots, this week announced that it reached a tentative agreement for a first contract last Thursday with the Cleveland-based fractional provider. The agreement comes some four years after the union came on the property and, if ratified, will end years of sometimes...
moreJet Aviation U.S. Charter Now Part 135
February 03, 2010
Jet Aviation’s U.S. charter division is now operating under its own Part 135 charter certificate as Jet Aviation Flight Services. Previously, aircraft managed by Jet Aviation in the U.S. were operated under Part 135 rules by a third-party air carrier, which currently is Priester Aviation. Jet Aviation will transition its two managed Gulfstream IVs from...
moreAir Charter Demand Sluggish, Avinode Says
February 02, 2010
Demand for charter flights looks set to fall from the rise enjoyed by the market last month, according to the latest demand index from online charter portal Avinode. As of yesterday, its demand index for the next 30 days showed a fall of just over 50 points from 116.77 on January 1, to 65.00. But the index at the start of this month was slightly up on the...
moreSolairus Launches Program To Help Fund CAN
February 01, 2010
Aircraft charter and management firm Solairus Aviation launched a program to help fund the Corporate Angel Network’s (CAN) continued efforts to provide cancer patients with free flights aboard corporate aircraft to treatment. Under the program, Solairus will support CAN with a cash contribution equal to 1 percent of the first year’s management fees for each...
moreJetBird still in the nest
February 01, 2010
Having delayed its launch for the third time (most recently to December), Ireland-based would-be air-taxi operator JetBird is now publicly no more specific in its planning than to say it will start operations this year. The first aircraft were to have been delivered in September but delays then were attributed to production problems at Embraer. Then, at the...
moreJet Aviation has own charter op with purchase of K Services
February 01, 2010
Jet Aviation has launched its own charter company after purchasing sole-proprietor charter operator K Services and naming the new charter division Jet Aviation Flight Services. Jet Aviation has long planned to open its own charter division, but the FAA rebuffed earlier efforts for unexplained reasons. Jet Aviation met all Department of Transportation rules...
moreACSF publishes five-year review of charter safety
February 01, 2010
The Air Charter Safety Foundation’s (ACSF) recently completed review of Part 135 incidents and accidents examines the safety record of the industry from 2004 to 2008. To compile the data, the foundation combed through the NTSB accident database and separated revenue flights from Part 91 events, including maintenance, ferry, positioning and instruction....
moreAir Partners adds frax to its charter, management business
February 01, 2010
Canadian aircraft management company Air Partners has launched a fractional-share program to capitalize on historically low used aircraft prices. Air Partners is headquartered in Calgary and is a subsidiary of Morgan Air Services, which was founded by WestJet Airlines cofounder Tim Morgan in 1983. In addition to aircraft management, Air Partners offers...
moreMustang operator starts up at Le Bourget
February 01, 2010
Wijet (pronounce Weejet), a start-up company based at Paris Le Bourget Airport, has begun operations under its own air operator’s certificate (AOC) with a Cessna Citation Mustang and is planning to increase the fleet to four by the end of this year. The first commercial flight took place in mid-November, after French civil aviation authorities issued the...
moreTouching Bases: Sky Limo Charter Sees Growth
January 28, 2010
Unlike many charter operators that saw revenues decline last year, Sky Limo Air Charter revenues grew during 2009, to more than $6 million before November, up from $2.5 million in 2008. Sky Limo, based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., was granted Platinum status by ARG/US late last year. The company added five aircraft during the past few months, including two...
moreTouching Bases: Charter Operators Earn ARG/US platinum Rating
January 28, 2010
During the last quarter of last year, ARG/US International added 18 charter operators to its Platinum rating system, bringing the total number of operators that have passed the Platinum audit to 77. ARG/US added the ARG/US/IS-BAO combination audit in May 2009 and since then has completed 12 combination audits for charter operators seeking both ARG/US...
moreAvinode To Upgrade Aircraft Charter Search Engine
January 26, 2010
Online charter portal Avinode is unveiling its new aircraft charter search engine at this week’s NBAA Schedulers & Dispatchers conference in San Antonio. The company says its new 2.0 system will make it easier for charter brokers and operators to put together the most cost-efficient routes by allowing them to search more effectively for real-time...
more$20M Verdict Against XtraJet in Cabin Taping Overturned
January 21, 2010
A judge in the 2nd District Court of Appeals in Los Angeles last week overturned an earlier $20 million judgment against defunct charter operator XtraJet, saying, “The amount awarded to the plaintiffs was so great that it shocks the conscience.” The claim against XtraJet and its former owner, Jeffrey Borer, stemmed from the secret taping of pop singer...
moreStill Grounded, JetBird’s Phenoms Find Other Nests
January 14, 2010
JetBird, the Ireland-based would-be air-taxi operator that had hoped to be flying Embraer Phenoms already, says it is now planning to launch operations sometime this year, but news from other quarters suggests obstacles that might go beyond a mere delay. In fact, the aspiring air taxi service recently notified pilots queuing for preliminary telephone...
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