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Continental Airlines says nine of its senior pilots divorced their spouses so they could collect early settlements of up to $900,000 from the airline’s pension fund, and later got remarried. Continental says the divorces were intended only to secure the cash long before the pilots normally would have been eligible, but at least one of […]

The Canadian Business Aviation Association annual convention begins today in Montreal with the upbeat theme of “Moving Canada’s Economy,” but the main presenters will likely be tempering the mood with some sober comments on the state of the economy and the industry. The business part of the convention starts Thursday with the Teal Group’s Richard […]

The plunge in oil prices has hit Russia’s elite business sector hard and the effect is being felt by the fledgling business aviation industry. Forbes Magazine has profiled the pioneering company in business aircraft charter in Russia and, like business everywhere, Kurosh Tehranchian and Nikki Rokni, of Ocean Sky, are feeling the pinch. The husband-and-wife […]

The Gerson Lehrmann Group has issued its take on the state of business aviation and it claims there are a few things working in the industry’s favor. For one thing, airlines are going out of business or cutting back flights and destinations to avoid that, leaving business aviation as an increasingly attractive option for business […]

As the first privately built commercial airport in the U.S., Branson Airport got a lot of attention when it opened earlier this month, but another airport is due to open nearby soon — a municipal general aviation field. While that’s not a first, it happens all too rarely in these times when the news is […]

Five years ago, New York passed a law that exempts general aviation aircraft repairs, maintenance and parts from state sales tax, but that tax break will expire on Dec. 1 if legislators don’t re-enact it. Albany County Airport Authority CEO John O’Donnell told the Albany Times-Union this week that the exemption created “a substantial boom […]

The FAA has been experimenting with ways to detect bird movements with radar for quite a while, but since an airliner had to ditch in New York in January after its engines ingested birds, interest in the systems has intensified. The FAA told the Wall Street Journal this week that a test of avian radar […]

Click above and below for video of the DC-3 landing at Moontown Moontown Airport, near Huntsville, Ala. is one of the busiest grass strips anywhere but necks were craning at the new sound in the air late Saturday. The Herpa DC-3, making its first stop on the Fiddling Around America Tour landed with room to […]

BuildAPlane, the non-profit organization that gets kids hands-on with aircraft, will this year sponsor Teachers’ Day at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, educating educators on ways to weave aviation into their curricula from kindergarten to high school. Attendees can earn complimentary admission to EAA AirVenture after attending Teachers’ Day and also one graduate credit through Viterbo University. […]

There’s nothing like a little barnstorming to revive the aviator’s soul, and when it involves a vintage DC-3 we can’t think of a better way to pass the time. Watch AVweb starting May 25 for daily video blogs from Editor-in-Chief Russ Niles as he goes low and slow with Dan Gryder in the fabulous 1938 […]