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The New Breed of Jet Cards
July 01, 2006
Last month, Flight Options and Flexjet began offering tiered-pricing jet cards that provide steep discounts for not flying during peak periods. But that is where the similarities end.
Flight Options’ JetPass Ultimate Travel provides buyers with access to light, midsize and large-cabin aircraft with a deposit of $100,000 ($35,000 for current Flight...
moreAvantair: The Little Fractional That Could
July 01, 2006
Piaggio Avanti fractional provider Avantair is fast becoming a major player in the industry. While company CEO Steve Santo readily admits that Avantair isn’t a national program quite yet, “we’ll be there by the end of the year.”
Avantair’s fractional fleet currently numbers 24 Avantis, and it has seven managed Avantis on property. The company has grown...
moreCockpit Avionics
June 01, 2006
The promise of synthetic vision: turning ideas into (virtual) reality
moreInternational Operations
June 01, 2006
New rules and regulations pose challenges for operators
moreAfter C Series setback, Bombardier turns to CRJ family for inspiratioin
May 01, 2006
There’s no denying that Bombardier’s commercial aircraft business has reached a crossroads, and that a still ailing airline industry will dictate the direction it ultimately turns. The 50-seat jet market–Bombardier’s bread and butter for the better part of 10 years–has collapsed, leaving the company groping for an idea that might one day prove half as...
moreRAA Convention 2006: Regional-mainline partnerships lose some of that loving feeling
May 01, 2006
While at first it seemed hard to reconcile the rather dark and anxious mood of last year’s RAA Convention in Cincinnati with double-digit profit margins and record revenues, by the end of the three-day event it became clear to everyone what regional airline executives had seen coming for years. The heyday of so-called cost-plus agreements that guarantee a...
moreRAA Convention 2006: Island Air ducks under the radar while heavyweights fight fare war
May 01, 2006
As Aloha and Hawaiian Airlines drew the battle lines in preparation for Mesa Air Group’s planned June 9 incursion on their jealously guarded pieces of island turf, Hawaii’s most prominent RAA member, Honolulu-based Island Air, quietly hunkered down for the coming storm. Happily for CEO Mark Mauracher, the little but growing Bombardier turboprop operator can...
moreRAA Convention 2006: Eastern programs find their stride as Western firms ponder next move
May 01, 2006
Antonov
An-148–With certification by Russian civil aviation authorities imminent, the first airplane type designed and built in the former Soviet Union without direct public funding stands nearly ready for first delivery to launch customer KrasAir of Siberia, which placed an order for 12. Fellow “launch” customer Pulkovo Aviation of St. Petersburg has...
moreRAA Convention 2006: Regionals fine-tune cost strategies in wake of European recovery
May 01, 2006
The time has come to forget industry recovery and talk instead of progress, said European Regions Airline Association (ERA) president Antonis Simigdalas in his opening remarks during the group’s March conference in Copenhagen. Perhaps the one area in which operators seek progress more than any other involves their reaction to high fuel costs.
Almost 250...
moreRAA Convention 2006: Embraer 195 approval will mark end of one era and beginning of another
May 01, 2006
Although it will mark the formal market introduction of the last and largest E-Jet, the scheduled July certification of the 108-seat Embraer 195 by no means signals the end of the company’s work on the series. In a way, it represents a beginning, as Embraer can now turn its full attention to building production efficiency and, more important to its...
moreRAA Convention 2006: RAA hurries to wait for word on FAA’s funding proposal
May 01, 2006
Like most segments of the aviation industry, regional airlines have cast their collective eyes on topic number one of late–how to finance the FAA. Although Congress might not move forward with specific legislation related to FAA funding until next year, both the House and Senate will hold hearings on the subject throughout the year.
At the core of the...
moreRAA Convention 2006: CRJ fires traced to change in terminal insulation material
May 01, 2006
A subtle change in the material used in an electrical component caused seven fires in Bombardier CRJs, according to an NTSB recommendation released on March 30. Tyco Hartman, the manufacturer of the component, changed the material and didn’t notify Bombardier that the new part was coated with a different material that turned out to be susceptible to...
moreAviation Industry Expo 2006: Taxation and regulation issues weigh heavily at NATA event
May 01, 2006
During a year when non-airline aviation is expected to continue growing to record levels, a number of challenges face those whose service businesses propel the general aviation segment. Leaders of those companies came to the Aviation Industry Expo (AIE) in Las Vegas from March 28 to 30 to learn more about how to deal with problems such as user fees, onerous...
moreAviation Industry Expo 2006: User Fees: What May or May Not Be
May 01, 2006
If Air Transport Association (ATA) CEO James May has his way, business aviation will start paying more of what he believes is a fair share of the costs of operating the nation’s ATC system. During his presentation at the NATA strategic issues forum on the last day of the AIE show, May outlined his views, couched in an empathetic appreciation of the...
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