Charter & Fractional
News and issues concerning the aviation charter and fractional-ownership industries and markets, including company announcements, regulations, new developments and labor issues.
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Second Cease and Desist Order for Platinum Jet
Platinum Jet Management has been slapped with a cease and desist order for the second time since the Challenger overrun accident at Teterboro Airport on Fe
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NetJets Europe To Nest 24 Falcon 7Xs
NetJets Europe has placed a “historic” $1.1 billion order for 24 Dassault Falcon 7Xs scheduled for delivery between the first quarter of 2008 through 2014.
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Charter Broker Acquires Charter Operator
Global charter broker Air Partner has acquired UK executive charter operator Gold Air for $8.1 million.
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NetJets Mechanics Picket at NBAA
Members of the Teamsters union that represents mechanics, aircraft fuelers and other support personnel conducted what they called "informational picke
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Fractional Aims for ’Predictable’ Costs
CitationShares launched a program–Citelines–that it says offers “payment predictability, customized program options and cost savings never before seen in t
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ExpressJet moving into corporate charter
Houston-based regional airline ExpressJet announced here at NBAA’06 that it planned to open a new division to fly corporate charter services using 10 Embra
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Sixty-minute Manifest Notification Proposed
In a proposed rule issued Friday, the U.S.
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ARG/US Wins Injunction Against CharterX
A North Carolina judge issued an injunction recently against charter facilitator CharterX, its new Wyvern Consulting charter audit unit and a former ARG/US
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Now NetJets’ Mechanics Start Picketing
First it was NetJets’ pilots who picketed and finally got a new labor contract; now it’s the fractional’s mechanics and other support personnel who on Frid
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Wyvern Markets Audits Directly To Operators
After 15 years of auditing charter operators only at the behest of the companies or individuals who hire them, Wyvern Consulting, on Tuesday, announced tha
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Start-up Magnum Jet Orders Small Jets
Embraer today said Houston-based Magnum Jet has placed an order for 50 Phenom 100s, with options for another 50 Phenom 100s and/or 300s.
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Flight Options Raises the Stakes for Fractionals
Cleveland-based fractional provider Flight Options this morning launched Fractional First, which it describes as a “purchase and use program designed to de
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No WAAS Capability for Honeywell’s GNS-XLS
A recent notice sent to Honeywell GNS-XLS owners confirmed what many had suspected all along: due to hardware limitations, the flight management system wil
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FAA Pushes Ahead with New Charter OpSpec
The FAA is moving forward with a plan to release Charter Operations Specifications A008 (OpSpec 008) and associated guidance on August 31.
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After a decade, Flexjet is firmly in the black
As recently as four years ago, some observers openly questioned whether Bombardier’s Flexjet fractional ownership operation would still be around in 2006.
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Delay Likely for Runway Margin Requirement
The FAA is expected to push back “a few weeks” the implementation dates for the 15-percent runway safety margin requirement.
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Alphabets React to FAA Landing Distance Policy
NBAA and the National Air Transportation Association (NATA) expressed concern about the FAA’s June notice requiring the addition of a 15-percent landing-di
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Fractional Ownership: Frax market blues
More than 20 years ago, fractional jet ownership began with NetJets and then expanded rapidly in the late 1990s with the growth of Raytheon Travel Air and
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Runway Margin Op Specs Still in Draft
The FAA had planned to deliver Operations Specifications C082 on calculating new landing-distance safety margins by June 30, but it is still in a
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NetJets Financial Winds Shift Favorably
The nine-month-old NetJets pilot contract, which raised wages substantially, isn’t having the speculated adverse effect on profits at the fractional provid
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Avanti Deliveries Can’t Keep Up with Demand
Piaggio shipped only three Avantis in the first nine months of this year, hardly enough to keep up with demand, particularly from one of the OEM’s largest
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Air Partner strikes gold with Gold Air
Global charter broker Air Partner International has acquired UK executive charter operator Gold Air for around $8.1 million.
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Hunt & Palmer moves into Asia
Charter broker Hunt & Palmer has opened a new office in Hong Kong.
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Executive Jet adds new jets to its charter fleet
Executive Jet Management (EJM) has announced a significant increase in its charter fleet and reorganization of its sales and aircraft owner relations staff
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Flight Options pilots protest unfair contract negotiations
The union representing some 760 Flight Options pilots is charging that the Raytheon-owned fractional share company is engaging in a pattern of harassing an
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UK fractional to expand fleet through aircraft management
UK-based fractional ownership program European Business Jets (EBJ) is looking to move into aircraft management to boost its available fleet.
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NetJets’ labor practices challenged in Europe
Scara, a French association of leisure and executive air charter operators, is urging CRPN, the French crew retirement fund that collects contributions fro
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Europeans frustrated by DOT access restrictions
European charter operators are expressing increasing frustration about what they have come to regard as anti-competitive restrictions on their ability to f
