John was editor of Aviation Week's ShowNews for nearly two decades. He retired in 2020. His background in business journalism before joining Aviation Week includes stints at Reuters, the American Banker daily banking newspaper and as business news editor at the Milwaukee Journal and the Cincinnati Enquirer.
A lifelong aviation enthusiast, John has been a private pilot for 34 years and won an award at EAA Oshkosh for his restoration of a vintage British Auster army spotter aircraft. He is currently building a 1920s Staaken Flitzer biplane from plans. John attended his first Farnborough Air Show in 1952, when just eight months old.
ExecuJet manages a fleet of 165 business aircraft worldwide—including a significant number of Bombardier Global and Gulfstream-sized jets—boosting Luxaviation’s combined fleet to more than 250 business aircraft, second only to NetJets.
VistaJet, operator of the world’s largest privately owned Bombardier business aircraft fleet, hopes to enter the Chinese market for in-country charters “within weeks.”
The first Nextant 400XTi sold to a Chinese customer will be delivered later this year following the remanufactured business jet’s certification by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) at the end of 2014.
