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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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Avinode To Upgrade Aircraft Charter Search Engine
Online charter portal Avinode is unveiling its new aircraft charter search engine at this week’s NBAA Schedulers & Dispatchers conference in San Antoni
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$20M Verdict Against XtraJet in Cabin Taping Overturned
A judge in the 2nd District Court of Appeals in Los Angeles last week overturned an earlier $20 million judgment against defunct charter operator XtraJet,
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Still Grounded, JetBird’s Phenoms Find Other Nests
JetBird, the Ireland-based would-be air-taxi operator that had hoped to be flying Embraer Phenoms already, says it is now planning to launch operations som
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Avinode: Charter Demand Still Rising
Demand for charter flights is set to continue rising this month, according to the latest
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Newsmakers 2009: Frax founder Santulli ejects from NetJets
Individually last year there was no taller toppling in business aviation than that of NetJets founder and chairman Richard Santulli, who on August 4
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CitationAir Recalls 16 Furloughed Pilots
Business jet solutions provider CitationAir by Cessna early last month recalled 16 pilots from furlough, representing approximately 20 percent of those fur
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Newsmakers 2009: New companies emerge from the collapse of JetDirect
The fallout from the failure of JetDirect Aviation earlier this year rev
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More Operators Pass ACSF Charter Audit Muster
The Air Charter Safety Foundation (ACSF) announced that three more aircraft charter operators passed its “industry audit standard” and achieved “registered
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Air Platinum Club Is Latest Casualty
Miami-based Air Platinum Club–which until recently was touting membership options in its Gulfstream IV-SPs, exotic cars, a beachfront condo and a yacht–app
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Jet Republic employees claim start-up mishandled insolvency
Former employees of Jet Republic complain of being betrayed and misled in the
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Newsmakers 2009: Start-up frax Jet Republic folds, leaving many questions
The sudden collapse in August of fractional ownership startup Jet Repu
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NetJets Middle East adds Falcon to fleet, launches jet card
NetJets Middle East is reinvigorating its marketing efforts with the introduction of the new Dassault Falcon 2000LX and the launch of a 25-hour jet card.
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ARG/US Endorses IS-BAO as Charter Audit Standard
Aviation Research Group/US (ARG/US) is endorsing the International Standard for Business Aircraft Operations (IS-BAO) as the “one standard that all operato
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Jet Aviation Now a U.S. Charter Certificate Holder
Jet Aviation has purchased charter company K Services and now for the first time is the holder of a U.S.
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Air Platinum Club Is Latest Charter Casualty
When Miami-based Air Platinum Club began operating last summer, CEO Mickael Cohen
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Comprehensive Charter Safety Review Issued by ACSF
The Air Charter Safety Foundation (ACSF) late last week released its first accident and incident review of the Part 135 on-demand air charter industry.
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More Operators Pass ACSF Charter Audit Muster
The Air Charter Safety Foundation (ACSF), an affiliate of the National Air Transportation Association, yesterday announced that three more aircraft charter
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Funding Problems Ground JetBird
Europe’s JetBird has once again delayed the launch of its air-taxi network, this time on the grounds that it needs to raise fresh capital to support the ne
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Superseding Indictment Names Five in 2005 TEB Crash
John Kimberling, the captain of the chartered Challenger 600 that
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Aircraft Charter Demand Stabilizing
November saw mixed results in the charter sector, according to the latest data from online charter booking portal CharterX.
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Flexjet goes for the gold
To mark Canada’s hosting of the 2010 Winter Olympics, Bombardier’s Flexjet subsidiary is offering a special edition of its Flexjet 25 jet card.
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Euro VLJ taxis adjust to match weak demand
For Europe, the so-called very light jet (VLJ) revolution has turned out to be more a case of evolution in which only the most financially fit seem destine
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Flight planning, charter data merged on Caeroscene system
Austria’s Caeroscene IT Solutions claims to have developed software and a Web-based portal that can combine all core flight planning and support functions
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Madoff Charter Company Declares Bankruptcy
Swindler Bernard Madoff’s charter company, BLM Air Charter, filed for voluntary bankruptcy (Chapter 11) in the U.S.
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Air Partner Expands JetCard Offerings
Air Partner is expanding its 25-hour prepaid JetCard by adding two new aircraft categories–very light jet and super-midsize–within its European service are
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Greenjets Hikes Prices, Citing Fuel Costs
Due to recent upticks in fuel prices and increasing demand for its services, per-seat charter broker Greenjets raised seat prices by 10 percent, effective
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NetJets Europe closes in on carbon-neutral goal
NetJets Europe is on track to become completely
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Broker Virgin Charter shuts down operations
Virgin Charter, the online charter brokerage
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Charter Data Shows Mixed Picture
The latest data from Charter X and Avinode paints conflicting pictures of the fortunes of the executive charter market over the past month.
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California Charter Firm Secures New Funding
XOJet has secured $470 million in additional financing, including $100 million in equity and a “more flexible debt facility” of $370 million that allows fo
