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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NetJets Opening New Van Nuys Facility

NetJets has signed an agreement with Maguire Aviation at Van Nuys (Calif.) Airport to design a private terminal for NetJets.

Charter & Fractional

October 11, 2011

Flying Colours To Open Asian Completions Facility

Flying Colours has partnered with Hong Kong-based Metrojet,

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October 11, 2011

NBAA 2011: DOT Regs, Illegal Charter Top Acana Agenda

Founded to promote self-regulation among air charter brokers, Acana (Air Charter Association of North America) has become the brokers’ alphabet group, taki

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October 10, 2011

Tempus Jets Buys Global Trip Support

Tempus Jets has purchased Global Trip Support, which will now be called Tempus Global Trip Support.

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October 10, 2011

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National Jets Adds Learjet 45XR to Its Fleet

National Jets, which is based at Florida’s Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, has added a Learjet 45XR to its fleet.

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October 10, 2011

Million Air Charter OK’d for RNP-AR Approaches

Million Air Dallas completed the validation flight requirements to obtain authority to conduct RNP-AR (formally SAAAR) approaches in its Gulfstream G450.

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October 5, 2011

Political stability aids bizav bounceback in Thailand

Business aviation activity is picking up in Thailand, with the Southeast Asian country enjoying a period of relative political stability after the recent g

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October 4, 2011

October Air Charter Demand Looking Flat

Demand for charter flights during October looks set to remain somewhat flat, according to the latest projections from online charter portal Avinode

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October 4, 2011

Pilot Fatigue Rules Delayed Again

Regulations to combat pilot fatigue–which FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt said will migrate to Part 135 operations–have been delayed past the August 1 dead

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October 3, 2011

O'Neill Out, Schultz In as CitationAir Chief

Bill Schultz, currently executive vice president and COO of CitationAir, took over as president and CEO of the private air services company.

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October 3, 2011

Avantair Trims Office Staff

Avantair has laid off about 20 employees, mostly at its FBOs that it owns and operates, but also some marketing staff.

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October 3, 2011

Acana To Hold Charter/Broker Seminar at NBAA Convention

The Air Charter Association of North America (Acana) will hold a forum on charter legalities at NBAA 2011.

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October 3, 2011

Moscow’s Jet Expo Show Reveals Russian Bizav Recovery

After being dented by the financial crisis, Russian business aviation is back in growth mode.

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October 2, 2011

Charter and Fractional Market Special Report: Providers Surviving and Growing

Like most of the general aviation industry, the charter and fractional sectors have reported stable activity during the past year, with pockets of growth a

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October 1, 2011

UK Plans Dedicated Airspace for 2012 Olympics

The UK’s National Air Traffic Services is proposing to establish a new airspace structure specifically to accommodate business aviation during the period a

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October 1, 2011

Platinum Jet Founders Sentenced To Prison

Michael Brassington, former president, CEO chief pilot and cofounder of Fort Lauderdale-based charter operator Platinum Jet, and his brother, former v-p an

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September 22, 2011

AIN Blog: Charter Feels the Squeeze from All Sides

I thought that working in the media was a precarious career path until I started to learn more about the executive charter business.

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September 8, 2011

Charter Lawsuit Reveals New Rendition Flight Details

Court documents released as part of a lawsuit by Richmor Aviation against charter broker Sportsflight reveal new information about how the U.S.

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September 1, 2011

Charter Demand Set To Flatten as Prices Wobble

Demand for charter flights during September looks set to flatten out, according to the latest projections from online charter portal Avinode.

Aircraft

September 1, 2011

Brazil gets first fractional program

The Latin American Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition in São Paulo last month marked the dawn of fractional jet ownership in Brazil, with two compan

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August 29, 2011