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While one arm of Bombardier Aerospace concentrates on building and certificating its airplanes, another arm is hard at work making sure they get flown, profitably. The company recently announced it has selected Global Wings Inc. of Tokyo, Japan, as a new operator for its growing Bombardier Flexjet Asia-Pacific business jet charter network. Global Wings Inc. […]

If all goes well, first deliveries of Bombardier Aerospace’s Global 5000 will take place in the second quarter of 2004, now that the company has a type certificate from Transport Canada for the new model in hand. The milestone, achieved March 12 and announced by Bombardier on March 22, means that the first Global 5000 […]

One way to deal with projected delays might be to add a helicopter to your company’s fleet. If many of your operations involve relatively short distances — like within the northeast corridor — you might be better off reserving the jet for longer flights and using a helicopter. If so, you’ll be among good company, […]

Are the bad old days — the time when ground delays, in-trail spacing and lengthy conga lines at airports throughout the U.S. were the norm — coming back? Since September 2001, U.S. air traffic delays and congestion have been virtually nonexistent on a widespread basis. The ongoing economic doldrums, the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and […]

As the deadline for this edition of Business AVflash was approaching, AVweb learned that NBAA Senior Vice President, Operations Bob Blouin had tendered his resignation. Also leaving the association is Cassandra Bosco, who has served as senior manager, media relations, since 1988. Both resignations came within days of each other. At our deadline, neither Blouin […]

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With this installment of our twice-monthly special coverage devoted to business aviation, AVweb inaugurates a new feature, “TSA Watch.” This feature, which will appear as the last news item in each BizAVflash and Business Aviation NewsWire published by AVweb, is designed to highlight the latest observed action — or inaction — by the Transportation Security […]

Eclipse Aviation Corp.’s push to certificate its Eclipse 500 light-light bizjet is scheduled to take a giant leap forward this week when the company intends to open its new Friction Stir Weld Center. The 97,000-square-foot facility will eventually house 70 employees and will be used to assemble the Eclipse 500’s aluminum fuselage using the friction […]

Like a traveling salesman punch-drunk on racking up enough frequent-flyer miles to receive first-class upgrades for life, Gulfstream keeps setting distance records with its G550 uber-bizjet. And, in the bargain, it also won an award. The most recent distance records were established on March 8, when a G550 took off from Dulles International Airport in […]