Content Archive: October 2010

Asia, Credit Markets Explain Stark Industry Contrast

One might attribute the striking contrast between the business jet industry’s predicament and the more-than-healthy production rates at major commercial ai
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Airframers in No Rush To Re-engine

Airbus, Boeing and Embraer seem willing to wait longer than expected to decide whether or not to re-engine their respective single-aisle offerings, as limi
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UAE Plays Hardball on Behalf of Emirates, Etihad

Sometimes business mixes with politics in less than subtle ways, as a dispute over landing rights in Toronto for Emirates Airline and Etihad Airways clearl
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ICAO Decision on Climate Change Fails To Quell ETS Row

After years of hair-splitting debate and tactical vacillation, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) finally has agreed to what it character
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Key Air lights 25 candles

Key Air (Booth No.
Aircraft

Sierra Nevada King Air shows odd mods at static

We spend all week walking around the NBAA Convention thinking about business aviation, and at times it feels like there’s more King Airs here than scantily
Aircraft

Bombardier Completes First Phase of Belfast Wing Facility

Bombardier has completed the first phase of construction of a 600,000-sq-ft wing manufacturing and assembly facility in Belfast for the C Series airliner,
FBOs

Hill Aircraft FBO celebrates 55 years at Fulton County

Local Atlanta FBO Hill Aircraft & Leasing (Booth No.
Rotorcraft

Safe Flight PDS aided Enstrom in Thai army sale

The first Enstrom 480B helicopters to be equipped with Powerline Detection Systems (PDS), which are designed and manufactured by Safe Flight Instrument (Bo