Helicopter operator Bristow Group has announced a partnership with Vertical Aerospace to explore electric vertical-takeoff aircraft while Avolon is partnering with Brazilian airline GOL and transportation provider Grupo Comporte to commercialize an eVTOL ride-sharing platform in Brazil.
Business aviation manufacturers are waiting for clarification to understand the impact President Joe Biden’s sweeping mandate requiring employees of companies with more than 100 workers to be vaccinated or produce weekly negative COVID tests may have on their companies.
The oil and gas company has set itself a target of producing 2 million metric tons of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) a year by 2025—a significant near-term scale-up in supply since Shell is not producing SAF at present.
The Biden administration said foreigners will be able to enter the U.S. with proof of vaccination and a negative COVID-19 test beginning in November, marking a substantial loosening of entry restrictions put in place at the start of the pandemic.
Bombardier is transitioning the Wichita facility, retraining its staff and growing its service business as it prepares to deliver its final Learjet off the production line early in 2022.
The credit is intended to stimulate production and consumption of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) by reducing the price premium over conventional jet fuel.
Aviation Week’s Advanced Air Mobility Report to date has covered the projects and companies that are staking ground in a market that they, themselves, are creating.
Optimism in the business aviation market is high and demand is recovering following the sharpest economic downturn since the Depression of the 1930s, a downturn far worse than that of 10 years ago, according to JetNet’s iQ Market report 2021.
The time was right for Bombardier Aerospace to introduce its Challenger 3500 super-midsize business jet, a refreshed Challenger 350 planned to enter service in late 2022, the company and analysts say, as competition in the segment continues to stiffen.
After working as a chef in five-star restaurants and for clients in the yachting world, Daniel Hulme founded On Air Dining in 2010 with a mission to bring not just great-tasting food but exquisite presentation to passengers on private jets.
Israel’s Urban Aeronautics has secured an initial $10 million of the at least $100 million it needs to raise through a Series A funding round to support development of the CityHawk vertical-takeoff air taxi.
Beta Technologies has selected Canada’s CAE to develop the pilot and maintenance training program for the Alia electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.
Shareholders in Atlas Crest Investment approved the blank-check company’s reverse merger with urban air mobility startup Archer Aviation in a Sept. 14 vote.
