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Babcock-Lockheed JV awards Airbus 500 million pounds UK contract

Airbus Group SE said its UK helicopters unit got a 500 million pound ($728 million) contract from Ascent Flight Training Ltd to provide aircraft and support to the UK's Military Flying Training System. The contract from Ascent, a joint venture between Babcock International Group Plc. and Lockheed Martin Corp., is spread over 17 years, Airbus, Europe's largest aerospace compan...

British Airways announces longest long-haul to Santiago, Chile

British Airways is launching the only direct flight between London and Santiago in Chile from January 3, 2017. Santiago will become the airline’s lengthiest long-haul route, taking 14 hours 40 minutes, nearly an hour more than the current longest flight of 13 hours 50 minutes service to Buenos Aires. The four-a-week flight will be served by the airline’s newest aircraft, the four-cabin...

Gama Aviation joint venture with Cotswold Helicopter Centre.

Gama Aviation have entered into an agreement with Cotswold Helicopter Centre (“Cotswold”) to offer training courses to new helicopter pilots at our rotary base in Fairoaks, Surrey. The joint venture will start operating with one helicopter, the innovative Guimbal Cabri G2, with access to the rest of Cotswold’s fleet, further Cabris G2’s, an R44, an Airbus AS350...

Private jet booking platform Stratajet lands $8m in funding

Private jet booking platform Stratajet has announced the closure of a $8m funding round led by Octopus Ventures. The round, which also drew support from existing investors Playfair Capital and JamJam Investments, brings the company’s total funding to $14m. According to a statement, the money will allow the London headquartered company to invest in further development. Jonny Nicol, f...

Starling Aerospace Interiors takes its new innovation to EBACE 2016

Starling Aerospace Interiors (booth C058) is showcasing its Berthable Divan at The 2016 European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (EBACE2016). This new innovation provides a 91 inch long modular sleeping solution and is certified for 9G and 16G aircraft. The stylish new Berthable Divan is available as a single (club 2 configuration), three or four seater and manually converts...

Gatwick Airport in London celebrates 80th anniversary of first flight

In the 80 years since the very first flight from Gatwick, the London airport has been host to many prominent figures like Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Diana, John F. Kennedy and more. The airport marked its 80th anniversary on 17 May, the same week it served more than 41 million passengers for the first time ever. To celebrate, the airport released images of some of the incredible vis...

NETJETS EUROPE announces partnership with THE LONDON HELIPORT

NetJets Europe – a Berkshire Hathaway-affiliated company, today unveiled a key investment in the London private aviation market, through a partnership with The London Heliport – the only Heliport in the city certified by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). The Heliport will be known as NetJets London Heliport and will feature extensive branding for both NetJets and its sister company,...

BIZJETMOBILE release The World's First BLUETOOTH SMART INFLIGHT connectivity solution

BizjetMobile announced today the release of CHiiMP Smart, the world’s first inflight connectivity solution to utilise Bluetooth Smart technology and connect via the Iridium satellite constellation. CHiiMP Smart is the smallest, lightest and most inexpensive connectivity system, creating an intelligent gateway for all voice and messaging communications on your aircraft. CHiiMP Smart is...

Female British aviator survives desert plane crash

British adventurer on a round-the-world journey has escaped without serious injury after her 1940s bi-plane crashed in the Arizona desert. Tracey Curtis-Taylor suffered only bruises to her thigh after the vintage Boeing Stearman aircraft turned upside down after hitting a bush during takeoff at Winslow, where it had stopped for re-fuelling. Ewald Gritsch, Ms Curtis-Taylor’s Austrian pa...

Ryanair Opens New European Training Centre In London Stansted

Ryanair, the UK’s No. 1 airline 16 May opened its new European Training Centre in London Stansted Airport. Ryanair confirmed that it will create over 1,000 new jobs for pilots, cabin crew, and engineers in 2016, more than 450 of which will be located at Ryanair’s 13 UK airport bases to support its 14 new Boeing 737-800 aircraft, an investment of over $1.4bn in the British economy....

London Oxford Airport bucks the trend to achieve steady growth

London Oxford Airport retained its position as the sixth busiest airport for business aviation in mainland UK in 2015 and its OxfordJet FBO ranked fourth for aircraft throughput during the year, handling some 8,000 business aviation passengers. Its international business aviation arrivals were up 24.7% in April compared with the same period in 2015 and up 8.4% on movements for the year...

Armed US air marshal removed from flight at Heathrow 'because he was drunk'

An armed US air marshal was taken off a plane at Heathrow airport and arrested after being accused of being drunk. The United Airlines flight to Los Angeles was two hours late taking off after the captain alerted police that the man was under the influence of alcohol. The federal marshal - believed to have been one of four who were on board the Boeing 777-200 - was breathalysed at the L...