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NetJets 3Q Results a Drag on Berkshire Hathaway
November 12, 2009
Revenues at NetJets, Berkshire Hathaway’s fractional jet share company, dropped $471 million (41 percent) in the third quarter of 2009 and $1.495 billion (42 percent) for the first nine months of 2009, compared with 2008 results, according to the parent company’s November 6 quarterly report. The decline in revenues stems from a 79-percent drop in aircraft...
moreSpecial Report: Charter Meltdown
November 01, 2009
The charter segment has been hit particularly hard during this downturn, as the number of flights dropped drastically from year-ago levels. Flight activity has recently begun to show minor increases, but in many cases the downturn has shone a light on other challenges with which the industry must contend.
'Special Report: Charter Meltdown' PDF
moreFarnborough goes big time
July 17, 2008
This year’s show benefits from recent improvements to infrastructure and facilities as organizer Farnborough International continues a 60-year evolution of development begun by the Society of British Aerospace Companies (SBAC). One of the first examples was a re-landscaping of the exhibition site in 1980 to accommodate continuing growth. SBAC re-routed...
moreCody Flyer centenary celebrated in full scale
July 17, 2008
The first airplane to make a powered, controlled and sustained flight in Britain took place at Farnborough on October 16, 1908, continuing a tradition that had already made the airfield a center of aviation excellence. To celebrate that event, a full-size replica of Samuel Franklin Cody’s British army airplane Number 1A is making its first public appearance...
moreFarnborough show opens its hangar doors to the world
July 16, 2008
Twelve years after the first Farnborough show in 1948, the Society of British Aircraft Constructors (SBAC) opened the event to foreign engine makers whose products equipped UK aircraft. The daily 1960 display began with a simulation of Britain’s planned retaliatory response to nuclear attack as flights of four Avro Vulcans, Handley Page Victors or Vickers...
moreEuropean FBO Survey Report
May 20, 2008
When it comes to customer satisfaction, Europe’s FBOs rise to the top of the charts
moreFBO Survey 2008
April 01, 2008
It seems that not a week goes by without an FBO company announcing either the acquisition of more FBOs or a one-FBO company buying half a dozen more FBOs to establish its own growing chain. Witness, for example, Volo Aviation’s rapid accumulation of five bases, when just last year the company had one FBO to supplement its primary charter business. See also...
moreCatering: Special Report
September 01, 2007
As tastes change, caterers offer more adventurous menus
more2007 AIN Product Support Survey - Part One: Aircraft
August 01, 2007
For the fifth year in a row, Gulfstream scored the highest overall rating among business jets. Pilatus leads among turboprops and Bell dominates the helicopter category.
morePilot report: Dassault Falcon 7X
August 01, 2007
Backlogs are long, but the FBW trijet is worth the wait
moreBusiness Aviation Safety: A look back at 10 years
October 01, 2006
Over the last 10 years business aviation safety has improved immensely. During the same period, the entire aviation industry has been subject to a number of equipment, avionics and procedural requirements designed to reduce accidents.The question is, has safety improved because of these requirements or have they been a financial, maintenance and procedural...
moreNew Bizjets
October 01, 2006
Like the overall U.S. economy, the business aviation industry is still exceptionally strong, as reflected by the healthy number of new business aircraft in the works. There are now 31 business jets in development, in flight-test or certified within the last 12 months.Many of the new aircraft are clean-sheet designs, which typically consume more money and...
moreBusiness Aviation in Latin America
September 01, 2006
Optimism is slowly becoming reality as business jet sales climb to five short of highest total in the past decade.
moreBusiness Aviation in Latin America
September 01, 2006
Offshore ops propel Líder growth
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