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Zetta Jet signs international MRO and FBO service agreements with Jet Aviation

Zetta Jet has signed service agreements with Jet Aviation to ensure seamless maintenance (MRO) and handling (FBO) services for the Zetta Jet fleet throughout Jet Aviation’s global MRO and FBO network. As the largest and fastest growing private charter company in Asia, Zetta Jet operates a fleet of more than 20 business aircraft based across the Pacific Rim as well as in Burbank,...

Pilatus Reports Outstanding Results in 2016 for PC-12 Sales and Service

Global sales of Pilatus PC-12 NG grow over 20 percent in 2016, outpacing all other turbine-powered business aircraft. At last year’s NBAA's Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition in Las Vegas, Pilatus unveiled the latest update to its popular PC-12 NG single engine turboprop aircraft. New features in the 2016 PC-12 NG increased cruise speed to 285 KTAS, reduced cabin noise l...

Pilatus PC-24 flies to NBAA-BACE 2016 and exceeds performance data

A US premier at this year's NBAA's Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (NBAA-BACE) in Orlando: the first-ever presentation of the PC-24 prototype to a US audience at the Pilatus outdoor stand. The PC-24 development program is progressing to plan and Pilatus expects its new business jet to exceed previously published performance data! Visitors to NBAA-BACE 2016 can look forwar...

SilverArrow Acquires Majority Share of PrivatAir in Switzerland

SilverArrow Capital Group announced that it has acquired the majority share (51%) of PrivatAir, SA. PrivatAir is an international premium airline and leading business aviation group with headquarter in Geneva, Switzerland and operating offices in Duesseldorf, Germany and Lisbon, Portugal. PrivatAir operates a wide-range of aircrafts ranging from Boeing B767, B757, BBJs to Airbus A319 and busine...

Jet Scout looks to offer new standard in interactive jet chartering

This new innovative web booking platform provides the business aviation community with improvements in price, timeliness, flexibility and efficiency. Operators, brokers, service providers and private flyers will all appreciate its user-friendly interface, which has been thoroughly tested to serve even the most complex booking scenarios. How does it work?  Jet Scout offers a streamlined...

TAG Aviation Strengthens its Maintenance Services Operations

TAG Aviation Europe announced that it has restructured and strengthened its Maintenance Services Operations management team in the UK with the appointments of several new senior personnel.  The following roles and management changes take effect immediately:  Cyrille Pillet has been appointed Vice President of Maintenance Operations and will be responsible for harmonising the maintenanc...

Air Zermatt's Bell 429 to feature in Red Bull TV series, The Horn

Bell Helicopter is proud to announce that a Bell 429 will feature in this season’s Red Bull TV series, The Horn. Launching On Demand globally on Red Bull TV on October 17, the six-part original docuseries is shot through the first responders’ eyes and set in the shadows of the most treacherous terrain of Switzerland’s Matterhorn mountain. The Horn is a new original series chro...

MY JET JOINS AEROSUISSE

My Jet, a Swiss-headquartered company that aims to revolutionize jet ownership by combining an in-house software, proprietary methodology and game changing approach to aircraft finance, was accepted as Aerosuisse member by the Association’s Executive Committee. It was announced at the AEROSUISSE Annual General Assembly that took place at the Swiss Museum of Transport in Lucerne, Switzerland, on Th...

SR Technics and Aviation Cosmetics Malta Launch Lease-End Transitioning Services

SR Technics, a world leading MRO service provider, is pleased to announce the launch of Lease-end Transitioning Services, LETS, a new product developed in cooperation with Aviation Cosmetics Malta an Aircraft painting company under Dutch management. Whether it is a carrier seeking a smooth hand back or a leasing company transitioning the aircraft into its next lease, SR Technics off...

What TAG Aviation’s Successful Part-NCC Compliance Solution Means?

 TAG Aviation’s Part-NCC Compliance Programme which was developed to help ease the transition for business jet owners and operators in the EU ahead of EASA’s Part-NCC regulations, which came into force this August, has already successfully managed the mandate NCC declaration process for 16 clients’ aircraft.  TAG’s easily implemented offering helps release privat...

Nomad Aviation adds Beechcraft Premier 1 business jet to charter fleet

Nomad Aviation has added a Beechcraft Premier 1 business jet to its charter fleet. The aircraft will be available to customers at the end of September 2016.   The Swiss registered Premier 1 is a light jet well suited to be used on short haul trips across Europe. It offers the most spacious cabin in its class and comfortably seats five passengers. The Premier 1 cruises at a speed in excess o...

IATA: Collaboration needed to stem unruly passenger incidents

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released figures showing that reports of unruly passenger incidents onboard aircraft increased in 2015. Some 10,854 unruly passenger incidents were reported to IATA by airlines worldwide last year. This equates to one incident for every 1,205 flights, an increase from the 9,316 incidents reported in 2014 (or one incident for every 1,282...