Jessica is Executive Editor of Business & Commercial Aviation magazine. She started as Editor of ShowNews Online, Aviation Week's on-site trade show daily published at the Paris Air Show, NBAA Annual Convention, Singapore Air Show and at other significant aerospace gatherings.
Jessica has worked in television production and management consulting. While not yet a licensed pilot, Ms. Salerno has received flight instruction and has soloed.
Hawthorne Global Aviation Services is expanding its maintenance operations to accommodate an increased demand from both in-house and transient customers at its Long Island MacArthur Airport (KISP) location. It has added a second shift to provide extended hours seven days a week at the facility. The location has been an FAA-approved repair station for nearly 30 years and employs 20 technicians and support staff. The facility, which supports ExcelAire’s fleet of more than 20 aircraft, is a factory authorized Embraer Legacy service center.
Embraer reports that it delivered 34 aircraft — 20 of them business jets — during the first quarter of 2014. In addition to 14 commercial E-Jets, the Brazilian planemaker handed over three Phenom 100s, 14 Phenom 300s, two Legacy 650s and one Lineage 1000. The company says that as of March 31 its firm order backlog totaled $19.2 billion, a $1 billion increase during the quarter in which Air Costa, an Indian carrier, ordered 50 E-Jets.
Aircell reports surpassing the 2,000th installation of its Gogo Biz system in business aircraft. The broadband service was introduced in June 2009. The company has more than 4,000 air-to-ground systems in the business and commercial aviation markets.
