BACA CEO Dave Edwards met Robert Walters of London Biggin Hill Airport and Mark Ranger of EBAN and Charter Broker magazines to officially launch ACE 18, the annual charter broker exhibition and conference. ACE18 will take place at London Biggin Hill Airport on September 11th 2018. Building on the success of ACE 17 Edwards has been tasked with further developing ACE to deliver top level content...
The collaboration between the Red Bull Air Race and Air BP that began with the 2017 season has been extended for a further three years. As official fuel and carbon reduction partner, leading international aviation fuel and services supplier Air BP provides fuel for cutting-edge raceplanes – and a great deal more. Safety, efficiency, carbon reduction and an eye to the future are all part of t...
By Clive Chalmers, Trading Director at Air Partner In the below comments, Clive Chalmers, Trading Director of the global aviation services group Air Partner, looks at some of the key drivers of 2017 and focuses on the ones he believes are likely to shape the Commercial Jet broking industry in 2018: “I expect meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions (MICE) activity will continu...
409 helicopters delivered last year Solid commercial performance of heavy and super-medium helicopters First wave of company-wide transformation completed Airbus Helicopters delivered 409 rotorcraft and logged gross orders for 350 helicopters (net: 335) in 2017, with a strong commercial performance on the heavy and super-medium segments. The company booked 54 orders for helicopters of...
New company is going to start helicopter flights in Tahiti and Bora Bora from May 2018. HBG Helicopters Group and Air Tahiti Nui are creating a simplified share company, which will be owned by HBG Helicopter Group and Air Tahiti Nui. HBG will bring their expertise, their know-how, their AOC (air transport certificate) as well as their PART 145 maintenance and ATN their operating network....
We are pleased to welcome yourways to AeroCRS family, yourways just entered the market with flights to the northern German island region. yourways is the first European company to use a brand-new Quest Kodiak aircraft. The turbine-powered plane offers eight seats, plenty of space and seat spacing, is quiet and comfortable. This aircraft has been in use for many years in other parts of the worl...
OCEAN2020, a European Defence Fund initiative, will boost technological research in the naval domain also by the integration of unmanned platforms in surveillance and interdiction missions Leonardo is a leader in systems integration and will lead a team of 42 partner companies including Saab, Safran, PGZ and MBDA, research bodies such as NATO CMRE and the defence ministries of five coun...
Qatar Airways showcased its patented, award-winning new Business Class seat, Qsuite, for the first time in 2018 at the Kuwait Aviation Show, along with the airline’s ultra-modern extra-wide body Airbus A350-900. Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive, Akbar Al Baker, led a VIP tour of the airline’s Qsuite-fitted Boeing 777 on Wednesday. VIPs in attendance included Sheikh Mohammad Al-Ab...
Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. announced that it has delivered the final Gulfstream G450 as it prepares to usher in the next generation of business aviation with the all-new Gulfstream G500. “For the past 12 years, the G450 has been one of the best-selling business jets in the industry, beloved by pilots and passengers alike for its technological advances, smooth handling, impressi...
In 2017, as per the Prague Airport 2017 operating results, Václav Havel Airport Prague handled a total of 15,415,001 passengers, which represents a 17.9% growth compared to 2016. The airport has thus confirmed its status of one of the fastest growing airports in its category of airports in Europe handling 10-25 million passengers a year. Václav Havel Airport Prague has experience...
Hong Kong business aviation consulting firm Asian Sky Group (ASG) has been appointed as the official marketing partner of AsBAA, Asia’s non-profit representative association for business and general aviation. As partner, ASG will provide marketing services through Asian Sky Media — two-time winner of AsBAA’s ‘Best Media Outlet’ award — which will be available to...
Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. will host a number of product support events in 2018, including its biennial weeklong Operators & Suppliers Conference, two Customer Advisory Board meetings, two flight operations forums and 11 operators forums. The events begin Jan. 23 in Zurich with a flight operations session that coincides with the World Economic Forum in nearby Davos, Switzerland. The flight...