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.
The battle for the future of Santa Monica, Calif., Airport (SMO) is fully engaged. The city has filed suit in federal court seeking full control over the facility and, if successful, would likely result in its permanent closure in 2015. The FAA is opposing the move, insisting the city must operate the facility as an airport in perpetuity — a position the municipality flatly rejects. Santa Monica maintains its airport obligations expire in 2015 under a settlement agreement the city reached with FAA in 1984.
WSI Corporation's Fusion Operations Management platform now supports flight tracking for Honeywell GDC Datalink customers. Using the Honeywell position reports, WSI Fusion is enabled with global contiguous flight tracking and monitoring of equipped flight departments. WSI has also announced the debut of WSI Business Aviation Solution, a platform to improve safety and efficiency of flight operations. The tool combines weather information, airspace constraints, flight information and operational data in a clear picture, according to WSI.
Milestone Aviation Group, Richard Santulli's Dublin-based helicopter leasing company, recently announced it had closed on an unsecured $200 million revolving credit line. That increases its unsecured borrowing capacity to $450 million and revolving borrowing capacity to $800 million.
