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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Is less more at Flight Options?
Taking a quasi-Southwest Airlines approach, Cleveland-based fractional provider Flight Options last month announced a “go-forward” plan to rationalize its
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Bombardier expands its Europen charter service
The Transatlantic Express fixed-price charter service Bombardier introduced this summer has taken off, with round-trip flights booked between Europe and th
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Bombardier’s Skyjet program goes global
Bombardier has launched Skyjet International as a global network of fixed-rate executive charter services spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East a
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Business Aviation in Latin America
Latin America’s vast, varied geography cries out for business aviation, with key areas of economic activity separated by jungle, mountains and prairies.
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Charter firm ABC Táxi Aéreo considers fleet expansion
While last year was a positive turning point for many of Brazil’s business aviation firms, some companies have been mostly unaffected by the rolling econom
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Argentinean airline builds executive charter fleet
With two straight years of 8-percent economic growth, Argentina appears to be on the road to recovery, as does the country’s flag carrier airline, Aerolíne
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NetJets Europe boosts sales
NetJets Europe (NJE) sold shares in 18 complete aircraft last year, representing an 80-percent increase in sales over 2003.
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Million Air TEB alters its charter image
Million Air Teterboro, N.J., has seen its way through a number of iterations since World War II Army Air Corps test pilot Ken Forester Sr.
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Hanscom Field has a new fee schedule
Massport, which operates Boston Logan International Airport (BOS) and Hanscom Field (BED) in Bedford, Mass., has instituted a new aircraft operating fee sc
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PlaneSense fractional takes off as niche market buys in
In a business world where a niche market may be the key to success, PlaneSense has apparently found both niche and success, operating a fractional ownershi
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NetJets pilots reject new work contract
On October 29, more than four out of every five of the unionized pilots at fractional provider NetJets voted to reject a tentative agreement (TA) reached i
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EJM’s Charter Jet Fleet Passes 100 Mark
Last year charter/management provider Executive Jet Management added 38 aircraft and a dozen bases bringing its total fleet size to more than 100 aircraft
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Flexjet Reports Brisk Fractional Sales
Bolstered by the introduction of the Challenger 300 and Learjet 40, Dallas-based fractional aircraft ownership operator Flexjet said it saw a 32-percent in
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OneSky Launches Online Charter ‘Matchmaking’ Service
OneSky Network of Manchester, N.H., has launched its new charter “mission matching” business to “organize the nation’s best charter operators through a sin
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Brisk Frax Hiring Predicted
Atlanta-based aviation placement company AIR projects that the four major fractional aircraft ownership companies will hire at least 1,000 pilots this year
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Anemic Dollar Gives U.S. Charter Firms an Edge, Too
The continued weakness of the U.S.
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Jet Card Offers Time on Two Types
Marquis Jet is now marketing a 25-hour card that gives users access to 12.5 hours in each of two different aircraft types.
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Laid-off airline pilots start successful Euro charter firm
Scores of professional pilots found themselves unemployed after the fallout from 9/11.
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Netjets pilots choose 'strong' voice
On December 23 NetJets pilots overwhelmingly elected the five-member master executive council (MEC) slate known as Strong Union.
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NetJets and FlightSafety report profits for 2004
In his annual letter to shareholders published early last month, investment mogul Warren Buffett said earnings improved last year at Berkshire Hathaway’s f
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London, Moscow popular departure points for large charter aircraft
Customers wanting to fly out of Moscow and London dominate executive charter demand for larger business jets in Europe, according to the latest statistics
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Private terminal opens for charter op at APA
Charter/management firm International Jet, on the newly opened south end of Denver Centennial Airport (APA), has begun operations at its “private jet termi
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Preliminary Report: Metro hits snowbank
FAIRCHILD SWEARINGEN METRO IIIA, RAWLINS, WYO., NOV.
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Preliminary Report: Merlin nosegear fails
SWEARINGEN MERLIN IIIA, GRAND JUNCTION, COLO., NOV 18, 2003–Merlin IIIA N332BA, owned and operated by Key Lime Air, Englewood Colo., was s
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Trial date set for pilots vs Flight Options
A May 11 trial date has been set for the start of a lawsuit in which four former Flight Options pilots allege they were fired because of their union-organi
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Flexjet exception to frax industry growth
With the exception of Bombardier Flexjet, 13 major and minor players in the fractional industry continued their growth cycle last year, according to Wichit
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Simuflite to train all Flight Options pilots
In the single largest training agreement in its history, Dallas-based CAE SimuFlite will soon start training all 900-plus pilots of Flight Options, the sec
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Bombardier merges charter operations
Bombardier has launched a global executive charter program offering both block occupied-hour terms and ad hoc rates throughout the U.S., Europe, the Middle
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Frax Hire Many More Pilots
The four major fractional aircraft operators hired 482 pilots last year compared with 198 in 2003, bringing the total roster of fractional pilots to 3,649
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Scheduling draws pilot ire at NetJets
While the fractional providers said publicly that switching to the more stringent rules of Part 91 Subpart K on February 17 was a nonevent, a look behind t
