Honda Aircraft’s new upgraded HondaJet Elite business jet, after a transition period of a few months, will replace the current version of the light business jet, Honda Aircraft president and CEO Michimasa Fujino said.
It isn’t just charter brokerages that are feeling the effects of app-based disruption. Hullo Aircrew deploys digital technology to assist self-employed pilots and cabin crew find work.
MedAire, a company specializing in medical and security assistance for air travel, has devised a dedicated health and security briefing for the FIFA soccer World Cup.
Piaggio Aerospace has won orders for four P.180 Avanti EVO business aircraft so far this year in a vote from the market that a recent restructuring and cash injection of 225 million euros will ensure its future.
Business aviation’s alphabet groups have launched the “sustainable alternative jet fuel” (SAJF) initiative, an awareness effort to curb the industry’s greenhouse gas emissions.
Despite 2017 being “a little bit depressed overall for business aviation in terms of volume of sales,” the first year has been “a great success,” for ACH.
The marketplace for app-based private-jet charter is becoming increasingly crowded, yet Jonny Nicol, founder of Stratajet, feels he has found a way for his company to stand out. “There is a chasm of difference between us and anybody else,” he argues.
In the business aviation sector, some of the entities that have been pursuing fresh approaches to the market have been around long enough to feel properly established.
Like a number of disruptive companies in the business aviation sector, VistaJet is enjoying fast rates of growth. In the 2017 financial year, the Malta-based global aviation outfit saw its flight revenues grow 22%, while flight hours in the U.S. increased by 39%.
Business aircraft broker Boutsen Aviation is showing an Airbus A319 Corporate Jet at this year’s EBACE, “the largest aircraft to be displayed by the company to date.”
The $5.25 million HondaJet Elite has achieved a 17% range increase to 1,437 nm and is equipped with a newly developed attenuating inlet structure that lines each engine to reduce high-frequency noise and increase cabin quietness.
The whole point of a business jet is that you go when you want go, but those heading toward London this summer face an almost blanket ban on overnight arrivals and departures.
EBACE saw its first Gulfstream G500 in 2017, but with the similar, yet longer-fuselage G600 now also well established in the flight-testing phase, the manufacturer has decided to stage a double act for Europe’s benefit.
In 2017, Clive Jackson, founder of private jet charter marketplace Victor, realized he needed to build a supporting structure around his fast-growing company.
