EBACE 2014: Optimistic Event Kicks Off With Multiple Product Launches
European business aviation leaders say morale is finally improving as market conditions improve.
EBACE 2014 BAROMETER: OPTIMISM ON THE RISE
The static display at Europe’s biggest business aviation event attracted 55
examples of the best the industry has to offer. Meanwhile, inside the convention halls, airframers put their high hopes on display, taking the opportunity to announce new programs ready in the near term. Photo: Mark Wagner
EBACE 2014 BAROMETER: OPTIMISM ON THE RISE The static display at Europe’s biggest business aviation event attracted 55 examples of the best the industry has to offer. Meanwhile, inside the convention halls, airframers put their high hopes on display, taking the opportunity to announce new programs ready in the near term. Photo: Mark Wagner

Morale among industry visitors to last month’s 14th annual European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (EBACE) seemed conclusively higher than it has been for much of the past half dozen or so years, blighted as they have been by a stilted recovery from the financial crisis of 2008. The eve of the show brought new product announcements from Dassault with its Falcon 8X, Gulfstream with the G650ER, Piaggio with its Avanti EVO and a major redesign of Aerion’s proposed supersonic business jet, which now has three engines.