Matt Thurber, editor-in-chief at AIN Media Group, has been flying since 1975 and writing about aviation since 1978 and now has the best job in the world, running editorial operations for Aviation International News, Business Jet Traveler, and FutureFlight.aero. In addition to working as an A&amp;P mechanic on everything from Piper Cubs to turboprops, Matt taught flying at his father’s flight school in Plymouth, Mass., in the early 1980s, flew for an aircraft owner/pilot, and for two summer seasons hunted swordfish near the George’s Banks off the East Coast from a Piper Super Cub. An ATP certificated fixed-wing pilot and CFII and commercial helicopter pilot, Matt is type-rated in the Citation 500 and Gulfstream V/550. Based in the Pacific Northwest, Matt and his team cover the entire aviation scene including business aircraft, helicopters, avionics, safety, manufacturing, charter, fractionals, technology, air transport, advanced air mobility, defense, and other subjects of interest to AIN, BJT, and FutureFlight readers.

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Farnborough, UK-based business aircraft operations company Gama Holdings purchased PrivatAir Inc., the U.S. division of PrivatAir Group, on February 29 for an undisclosed sum. Gama also bought 25 percent of charter operator Flight Services Group (FSG), which provides charter services to the former U.S. PrivatAir management clients. 
Gama Holdings has renamed the U.S. company Gama Aviation. The move expands Gama’s U.S. interests, which before the acquisition included only a small operation in Teterboro, N.J. 
Gama CEO and founder Marwan Khalek noted, “Gama has enjoyed significant growth over the past 25 years, particularly in the last six. This year has seen our expansion in a number of key markets.” Parent company Gama Holdings now manages 62 aircraft worldwide, and five more were scheduled for delivery by the end of last month. Although Flight Services Group is now partially foreign-owned, “operational control remains strictly with FSG and its management,” a Gama Holdings spokesman told AIN. 
PrivatAir CEO Greg Thomas said his company is “refocusing efforts on its European business and believes that the buoyancy of the U.S. private aviation market makes it the perfect time to sell our U.S. division.”

PrivatAir U.S. division sold to Gama Holdings

Farnborough, UK-based business aircraft operations company Gama Holdings purchased PrivatAir Inc., the U.S.

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