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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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
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The Charter Market
Demand for aircraft charter is rising worldwide, with more businesses and private individuals willing and able to start taking this increasingly attractive
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Broker Air Partner buys UK charter operator
Global charter broker Air Partner International has acquired UK executive charter operator Gold Air for £4.4 million ($8.1 million).
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Axis Jet forms charter unit with a trio of King Airs
On October 3, corporate aircraft sales and management company Axis Jet announced the opening of a new Part 135 air charter division based at Sacramento Exe
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News Clips: Raytheon Charter Division Adds Six Bizjets
Raytheon Aircraft Charter and Management has added six aircraft to its charter fleet, including a Beechjet 400A in Nashville, a Hawker 800A in Dallas, a Ch
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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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European agency studies changes to frax regulation
On behalf of the European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC), two separate task forces are tackling the vexed issue of regulating fractional ownership operat
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NetJets Europe expects 2005 profit
Assuming the next six months or so do not see a deterioration in trading conditions, the NetJets Europe fractional-ownership program should finally achieve
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MEC Election for NetJets Pilots
After the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) voided the late October MEC elections due to balloting concerns, the NetJets pilots finally were sch
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Out-of-limit cg might have led to TEB crash
Although the NTSB has not yet determined a probable cause for the February 2 Challenger 600 accident at New Jersey’s Teterboro Airport, it has released a n
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FAA Scrutinizing Charter Brokers
What is the role of an aircraft charter broker, do current regulations support this role and who has operational control on brokered flights? The FAA and D
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Netjets Pilots Countdown
Last month, the Association of Shared Aircraft Pilots (ASAP)–the union representing NetJets pilots– began its “informational picketing,” a campaign that in
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Sentient Jet Acquires Charter Operator
Corporate jet-card services company Sentient Jet has acquired charter operator Atlantic Aviation Flight Services of Teterboro, N.J., from Voyager Group, a
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Charter Operator Reports Strong Growth
Executive Jet Management reported revenue from its charter business rose by more than 35 percent last year over its 2003 figures.
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Air ambulance operations
A call comes in to operations: a young American woman vacationing on a dive boat in the Caribbean is suffering from serious burns after a fire broke out
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German Air Rescue-A Nonprofit Model
Deutsche Rettungsflugwacht e.V.–German Air Rescue (DRF), headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany, has been specializing in airborne emergency care and medical
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Euro charter firms offer ‘light’ options
Increasing demand from wealthy individuals for the Bombardier Skyjet International fixed-rate block charter program has prompted the company to experiment
