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Lufthansa launched Swiss PrivateAviation at EBACE Tuesday, a subsidiary of Swiss International Airlines. The company was formed last year after Swiss acquired business aviation charter and management company Servair Private Aviation. The new company is intended to strengthen Lufthansa’s private jet offering and will support the airline’s fleet of Cessna Citation aircraft, which will all […]

The theme of this European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition is that business aviation is “The Right Tool for Challenging Times.” And while that sentiment is undoubtedly an easy sell on the convention floor, it’s likely hoped that other ears are listening to the presentations that bolster that notion. First, it should be noted that […]

Business, like nature, abhors a vacuum, so when the National Business Aviation Association cancelled this year’s Asia Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition, scheduled for Hong Kong last February, it was only a matter of time before something filled the void. Last month, the Asian Business Aviation Association (AsBAA) announced that its annual event, Asian Aerospace […]

We can practically hear the cheering in Wichita from here — Oprah Winfrey said in a speech to the graduating class at Duke University on Sunday that “it’s great to have a private jet.” With CEOs across the country shamefaced about corporate excess, and aviation workers paying the price in thousands of lost jobs, could […]

Times might be tough right now, but apparently there are still plenty of people who hope to see a supersonic business jet on the market in the near future. The Aerion order book has held steady at $4 billion — about 50 jets at $80 million each — Aerion Vice Chairman Brian Barents said at […]

Students at Jet University, a flight school at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport, showed up on Friday to find the place closed, according to local news reports. Many of the students had signed up for ab initio programs that they hoped would take them through all the ratings to qualify for the right seat in a […]

An interesting development in U.S. aviation became a practical exercise on Monday as Branson Airport welcomed its first commercial flight. Minneapolis-based Sun Country Airlines became the first customer of the first entirely privately funded commercial airport in the U.S. The 737 offloaded a planeload of Minnesotans intent on sampling the entertainment and bright lights of […]

According to his attorney, Henry Gros, 56, complained via phone to the Navy and city authorities and wrote one senator without effect, until one year ago he shined a spotlight at naval aircraft flying nighttime simulated carrier approaches to Jacksonville Naval Air Station. Gros says the idea was to collect identification markings off the aircraft […]

The White House official who authorized the photo shoot of one of the presidential Boeing 747s over New York last month — and then didn’t tell President Barack Obama or other top officials about it — has resigned. Louis Caldera, the director of the White House Military Office, said in his resignation letter that the […]

Created “to fund initiatives that ensure a healthy future for the general aviation community,” Sporty’s Foundation Friday released its annual report showing total bequests of $151,355 in 2008. Original funding for the foundation came from Sporty’s Pilot Shop and its affiliate businesses but was bolstered by the foundation’s online auction of a Cessna Citation Mustang […]