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Decision on future of EBACE show pushed back after EBAA leadership shake-up
An announcement on the location for next year’s EBACE exhibition has been postponed until the end of July following leadership changes at the European Business Aviation Association (EBAA), the show’s organiser.
German business jet start-up Luminair to add three Falcon 900LXs
German business jet charter operator Luminair is to add three new Dassault Falcon 900LX aircraft before the end of the year.
State incentives tempt Otto Aviation to Jacksonville
Next-generation business jet start-up Otto Aviation will locate the final assembly line for its Phantom 3500 aircraft at a new site at Jacksonville’s Cecil airport on the back of a package of incentives worth $515 million from the state of Florida.
2Excel to modify 737-800s under follow-on oil spill response contract with OSRL
2Excel Group has been awarded a follow-on contract by OSRL to deliver continued aerial oil spill response services, with the UK company to replace a pair of aged Boeing 727s with modified 737-800s.
Lufthansa Technik sees VIP market as ‘incubator for innovation’
Lufthansa Technik vice-president sales, VIP & special aircraft services Fabian Nagel believes the company is seeing the benefit of research investment that took place during the pandemic as new products hit the business aviation market.
‘Massive over-capacity’ still defines Europe’s business aviation sector
Europe’s business aviation sector is still adjusting to an environment of excess capacity precipitated by declining demand following the booming Covid-19 years.
Executives see cost of SAF holding back wider adoption for business aviation
Ramping up the availability of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) remains a key challenge for business aviation, with executives blaming the high cost of the product for slowing attempts to increase uptake in the sector.
Certification changes fortunes for Catalyst
Just months ago, GE’s Italian unit Avio Aero gained the long-overdue certification for the powerplant from the Federal Aviation Administration, in turn clearing an obstacle in the way of service entry for Textron Aviation’s Beechcraft Denali.
Time ticking on SAF for business aviation
In 2019 when more than a dozen business jets touched down at EBACE in Geneva fuelled by sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), it seemed to herald a new dawn as a sector under a lot of pressure for its impact on the environment looked to fulfil a pledge to clean up its act.
Expanding Gama Aviation spreads its wings
It has been hard keeping up with Gama Aviation in the five years since the pandemic. The multi-faceted aviation services company, founded by Marwan Khalek and his business partner Stephen Wright in 1983, last year exited the stock market after a decade-long stint as a publicly traded company. It also sold its large US maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) business in 2023, two years after acquiring it – and three years after divesting its other stateside interests.