Banyan Voted #2 Best U.S. FBO and #1 Best Independent FBO 

Banyan Air Service, based at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport, was voted the #2 best U.S. FBO, #1 best independent FBO and most improved FBO in Professional Pilots Magazine’s 2008 PRASE Survey....

New Operations Manager for ExecuJet 

I wish to inform all valued clients that I will be leaving ExecuJet Aviation Services in August 2008. I have been at ExecuJet for the past seven years and have enjoyed a wonderful and mutually beneficial relationship with all....

VLJ DEMAND FALLS SHORT IN ROLLS-ROYCE REPORT 

By Marsha Barancik

The VLJ boom might very well not take over the world. Demand for the GA industry's smallest aircraft falls behind the push for medium- and large-size jets, according to the 2008 Rolls-Royce forecast. ...

EX-UNITED PILOT SHINES IN GA SECTOR 

By Marsha Barancik

Two years ago, Captain Cort de Peyster's career at United Airlines was awkwardly poised for a jolt or a farewell party. He was turning 60, an age that once meant mandatory retirement for commercial pilots in the United States. Although he had been embedded in an effort to extend pilots' careers, the process was draining. Regulators eventually did adjust the retirement age, but by then, de Peyster was already onto new pursuits....

AIRCRAFT SALES REMAIN STABLE DESPITE ECONOMIC UNCERTAINTIES 

By Carl Janssens, ASA, Aircraft Bluebook–Price Digest

Seems like everywhere one turns these days, it is easy to cue in on the worst-case scenario revolving around the depressed U.S. real estate market and the subprime mortgage scandal. Still, by official definition, the United States does not fit the mold that would indicate an economic recession has occurred....

TropicAero.com Re-Designs Website 

TropicAero.com has recently undergone a complete re-design of its on-line aviation retail store. The new website showcases portable aviation electronics, pilot supplies, training materials, cockpit accessories, apparel and safety equipment from leading manufacturers such as Garmin, David Clark, Telex, ICOM, Bose, and Lightspeed....

Specially Designed Fuel Additive Delivers Toxic Punch to HUM-Bugs 

One deadly dose and HUM-Bugs are a thing of the past. That's the power behind Biobor® JF, a concentrated liquid fuel additive used to eliminate Hydrocarbon Utilizing Microorganisms (HUM), or HUM-Bugs in aviation fuels....

Banyan Celebrates National AMT Day 

Fort Lauderdale, FL – Banyan celebrated their 3rd annual AMT Day on May 22 in honor of their maintenance and avionics technicians. Dave Valenta, Banyan’s director of maintenance and Lou Homsher, Banyan’s quality assurance manager, organized the luncheon event....

Hammonds Announces Ground Support Vehicle Giveaway 

Houston, TX - The Hammonds Companies are so enthusiastic about their revolutionary new ground support tractor called the Omni Directional Vehicle (ODV), they’ve decided to give one away to one lucky winner in 2008....

New Avfuel-Branded Dealer, Threshold Aviation Group, Inc. (KCNO), Wraps up Construction on Its New FBO Facility 

Avfuel-branded dealer Threshold Aviation has announced the completion of renovations to its FBO facility with ample ramp and hangar space. The upgraded FBO is part of Threshold Group’s commitment to steady expansion, and marks just one of many ongoing additions and projects that are planned....

OAK AND ITS FBOS BENEFIT FROM STRONG RELATIONSHIP 

By Marsha Barancik

Will the day come when airports and their FBO tenants are run as a comprehensive business that leverages the strengths of the commercial and GA sectors? Who knows? Here is a look at an FBO support package that might currently pass as the industry standard: Oakland International Airport (OAK) claims that it helps its two FBO tenants, Business Jet Center (BJC-OAK) and KaiserAir, finance public events and advertising that includes the airport's brand....

FLITEPORT TACKLES MIDDLE EAST OPERATING ISSUES 

By Marsha Barancik

Two recent milestones in the GA industry — the history-making XOJET deal that will produce a new operations base in the UAE and the opening of the region's largest FBO in Kuwait City — are solidifying the Middle East as an aviation center. Fliteport has launched a new initiative in an effort to make the region’s operating environment more manageable....

Highlights from Airport Policy News 

By Robert W. Poole, Jr.

Passenger Trip Delay: A Better Measure
For many years the U.S. DOT has been reporting flight delays—the fraction of flights by route or airline that depart or arrive more than 15 minutes later than scheduled. Besides the fact that widespread schedule padding has made this yardstick rather elastic, it’s a poor measure of actual passenger experience, since it ignores cancellations, diversions, and denied boardings due to over-booking. The researchers at George Mason University’s Center for Air Transportation Systems Research (CATSR) have come up with a better measure. “Passenger trip delay” includes trip disruptions due to delays, rebookings due to cancellations, rebookings after denied boardings, and diverted flights. The average passenger trip delay is a weighted average—the probability of each of these things occurring times the average duration of the delay due to each cause. CATSR researchers crunched the numbers for all scheduled single-segment flights in the United States for 2007 and 2006. The results may be aggregated by airport, by airline, and by route. Their report, “U.S. Airline Passenger Trip Delay Report (2007),” published in April 2008, provides the data by airline and airport....

Highlights from ATC Reform News 

By Robert W. Poole, Jr.

ATC Reform Is Key to Reducing Emissions
Aviation accounts for about 3% of global CO2 emissions, but that share is expected to increase as a more-affluent world makes greater use of air travel and air cargo. Radical greens want to curtail aviation growth, but more sensible people are pointing to the great potential of next-generation air traffic management to reduce emissions. CO2 is directly proportional to fuel burn, and with jet fuel prices at all-time highs, aircraft operators have a powerful incentive to go green by reducing fuel use. Fortunately, ATC reform—both organizational and technological—provides many ways to do this....

JetEx Flight Support Expands in Europe 

JetEx Flight Support, a leader in flight planning and ground handling services based in Dubai, has signed a contract with Aeroports de Paris to offer full FBO services at Paris Le Bourget Airport (France)....