BBGA has so impressed UK authorities, that it is now one of only three aviation trade bodies to meet with the CEOs of the CAA and DfT on four occasions per year.

Highlights on the static display at this year's European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition include the Boeing 787-8, Airbus ACJ350, Pilatus PC-24, Dassault Falcon 8X and a whole host of Embraer Executive Jets.

Flexjet's Embraer Legacy 500 made its first voyage to London City Airport on May 19, completing its certification to land at the airport. The aircraft allows for nonstop midsize business jet travel from the U.S. East Coast into London and to points through EMEA.

Don’t you just love the guy who can’t decide whether he’s in the fast lane or the slow lane? Or the one who seems to be broken down by the roadside, then fixes his problem and shoots straight across into the outside lane? The following survey examines newcomers to the business aircraft market, but contains so many stop-go, fast-slow projects that it could be a treatise on weekend driving.

Delays in development of Safran’s Silvercrest engine cost the company a one-time EUR654 million charge in 2015, helping drive operating profit for the year down more than 12% to EUR1.7 billion.

U.S.-based Flexjet will launch into Europe as a private jet travel and charter operator later this year, the fractional jet ownership company announced at EBACE.

Recent certification of the Diamond DA62 and Nextant G90XT sees these twins depart at full throttle, while the ONE Aviation (Kestrel) K350 is pushed to the back of the hangar until more funding materializes.

Three projects are detailed, none of them much advanced since this time last year. The Cirrus is flying and has made some progress since 2014 but, tellingly, there are no newcomers to this sector.