Aviaxess, a company that has been offering helicopter and business jet charter since early 2002, is trying to create a market for FBO-type services at Paris Issy-les-Moulineaux Heliport. The firm focuses on selling 25-hour blocks of charter that can be used in a number of European locations, either on helicopters or business airplanes. Aviaxess is also a sales representative for Bombardier’s Flexjet fractional ownership program.
Flexjet
November 27, 2007 - 6:47am
The maintenance division of Denmark-based ExecuJet Scandinavia has received JAR 145 approval, enabling the company to service aircraft registered to any nation in the European Union. From its base at Copenhagen’s Roskilde Airport, ExecuJet Scandinavia is the operating partner for Bombardier’s Flexjet Europe fractional aircraft ownership program. It is part of the Johannesburg, South Africa-based ExecuJet Aviation Group.
November 27, 2007 - 6:04am
For the past four years, Bombardier designers have worked on a variety of design concepts for new airplanes. One result of those efforts–the Learjet NXT–was announced on October 30. The airplane will be the largest in the Learjet line and fills a niche between the midsize Learjet 60XR and the super-midsize Challenger 300.
October 16, 2007 - 6:47am
Bombardier Aerospace consolidated its U.S. sales efforts for new and used aircraft with its Flexjet fractional-ownership program at a new headquarters building in Richardson, Texas, near Dallas. The new sales office is near Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and Love Field, where Bombardier aircraft pilot and maintenance training is conducted and where there is a factory service center.
October 15, 2007 - 11:15am
When Richard Santulli sold three fractional shares in a business aircraft in 1986, people snickered. Ten years later, NetJets had sold 1,551 shares and Santulli was the one left laughing. Today, NetJets has company in the fractional-ownership industry, an industry that now represents 5,827 fractional shares. Even with the current economic slump, last year’s new share sales were up by 17 percent over the tally for 2001.
October 15, 2007 - 11:02am
Marking the first anniversary of the launch of its Hong Kong-based business aircraft charter network last month, Bombardier Flexjet Asia-Pacific believes it is the first in a market expected to skyrocket. “We think we have a winning program here,” said Flexjet Asia-Pacific general manager Gregory Kalinin.
October 11, 2007 - 5:31am
Bombardier Aerospace promoted Michael McQuay to president of its Flexjet fractional operation headquartered in Dallas. McQuay, who joined Bombardier in 2001 as v-p and general manager of Flexjet North America, will be responsible for both Flexjet and the Skyjet North America online charter booking operation.
October 9, 2007 - 11:47am
According to research from AvData, Amstat and ARG/US, Cleveland, Ohio-based Flight Options had a share-owner increase of 20.5 percent (from 541 owners to 652 owners) between December 31 last year through June 30 this year, the largest percentage increase of four major fractional aircraft ownership providers (including NetJets, Flexjet and Travel Air). As of last June, Flight Options had a 16-percent share of the owner market.
October 9, 2007 - 11:19am
And you thought the dot.com bubble-burst was bad.
October 8, 2007 - 9:56am
What began as a concept that met with outright skepticism and indeed some hostility by the established aviation industry has blossomed into a viable branch of business and personal transportation that continues to fuel manufacturers’ production lines, gobbles up flight crews and, at least for now, staves off recessionary pressures by keeping order books fat.
