Minsheng Financial Leasing is aiming to construct the world’s largest business aircraft leasing operation, while seeking to build its position in the now slower mainland Chinese market.
A single-engine turboprop aircraft that Textron Aviation announced last year will be roomier and cheaper than competing types, the company says, while declining to give details of the program.
The top Democrat on the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee is adamant about his opposition. “Air traffic control privatization is just not going to happen,” Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) said in a Senate floor speech.
A Sunday ban on tourist helicopter flights in New York began on April 3, and is part of “a series of steep reductions” in the number of these flights this year,” according to the City Council.
