All articles by Murdo Morrison – Page 32
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MEBAA: Avinode reports big rise in charter requests from Middle East
There has been a sizable hike in requests to charter business aircraft from the Middle East in the past year, suggesting industry fortunes in the region could be rebounding, says the online private flight marketplace Avinode.
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MEBAA: Jetcraft issues downbeat forecast for Middle East
The business aircraft sales brokerage Jetcraft has issued a downbeat outlook for the industry in the Middle East, suggesting the region will make up just three in every 100 business jet deliveries over the next 10 years.
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MEBAA: Boeing looks to Middle East potential of Max 7
Boeing believes the just-launched business jet version of its smallest 737 Max variant will open up a new market in the Gulf by offering the capability of flying non-stop to the US East Coast for the first time.
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MEBAA: Mixed messages on Middle East charter market
If the Middle East’s business aviation market has peaked, nobody appears to have told the region’s two big charter players. Both Qatar Executive and Abu Dhabi’s Royal Jet have been investing heavily in metal. Royal Jet – the world’s biggest Boeing Business Jets operator – has just put into service ...
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MEBAA: After 10 years, association celebrates successes and acknowledges battles still to be fought
The Middle East Business Aviation Association – the organisation behind the MEBAA show – is celebrating its 10th anniversary. They have notched up a number of successes, but still face a string of challenges, from an inconsistent regulatory environment to a customer base still largely resistant to mid-size business aircraft. ...
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MEBAA: PC-12 operator plans to change the image of turboprops in Gulf
A start-up is aiming to defy the perception that business people in the Gulf will only fly on airlines or large private jets. Gi Aviation will launch operations in late December with what it says is the region’s first turboprop air taxi service, using a six-seat Pilatus PC-12NG. A second ...
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VIDEO: Infrastructure a major focus at MEBAA this year
With Dubai International already straining to cope with the expansion of Emirates Airline and its sister Flydubai, Expo 2020 - which the city will host - could be a major test of the UAE's airports to cope with a influx of high-end visitors.
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INTERVIEW: Piaggio chief executive Renato Vaghi
Reports of Piaggio Aerospace’s departure from the business aviation market are premature, it seems. The Middle Eastern-owned Italian manufacturer of the distinctive P180 Avanti has struggled to sell corporate aircraft in recent years as it simultaneously has tried to build a defence business based on special mission variants of the ...
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Royal Jet introduces two new BBJs
Royal Jet, the world's biggest Boeing Business Jets operator, is preparing to introduce the second of a pair of new 34-seat BBJs, taking the Abu Dhabi operator's fleet of the type to eight.
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ANALYSIS: Where Emirates will use large widebodies for short-haul
Confirmation that Emirates has retired its last Airbus A330 to leave it with an exclusively Airbus A380 and Boeing 777 fleet means that it will be flying seven short-haul routes from its hub of less than 1,000km distance using two of the biggest widebodies on the market.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: AHRLAC leads the charge in South African revival
In offices overlooking the production hall at AHRLAC Holdings, new graduate engineers work alongside colleagues in their fifties and sixties. The latter are largely veterans of the sanctions-era South African aerospace sector and are mentoring a new generation of aircraft developers.
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ANALYSIS: Industry raising the profile of upset recovery training
How well equipped are airline and business jet pilots to cope with a loss of control incident? It is a question that has perplexed the industry for two decades, but which was brought starkly home by the crash of Air France flight 447 in 2009, when the Airbus A330 pilots ...
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NBAA: Piaggio secures breakthrough US order for Evo
Piaggio Aerospace is hailing its first North American order for the P180 Avanti Evo as a “symbolic and industrial milestone”. The deal for five of the latest version of its twin-pusher turboprop comes as the Italian manufacturer looks to bolster its military activities in the face of several years of ...
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NBAA: Epic edges to E1000 certification
Epic Aircraft is showing a mock-up of its E1000 at the static – alongside one of the last examples of its LT kit plane sibling – as it prepares to start producing the single-engine turboprop.
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NBAA: Viking looks to Brazil potential after securing Twin Otter certification
Viking, the Canadian manufacturer of the Twin Otter Series 400, is celebrating securing its latest national approval.
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NBAA: Pilatus's first jet makes fleeting appearance
Pilatus’s PC-24 made a fleeting US debut at NBAA on 2 November with the Swiss manufacturer insisting that its first jet is running to schedule for certification next year.
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NBAA: Rolls-Royce claims to be signing up seven in 10 operators to Corporate Care
Rolls-Royce claims it is signing up seven in 10 new business jets fitted with its engines for its Corporate Care fixed-cost maintenance programme, with owners of more than 2,000 aircraft now enrolled. That is almost four times the number of just over a decade ago.
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NBAA: Comlux launches US-based charter programme
Swiss business aviation group Comlux is breaking into the US charter market with the launch of a Miami-based programme called OneAbove.
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NBAA: StandardAero limbers up for HTF700 bonanza
StandardAero is bolstering its HTF7000 capabilities in anticipation of a rise in long-term maintenance work as more aircraft powered by the Honeywell turbofan come on stream.
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Paid contentINSIGHT FROM FLIGHTGLOBAL: Flight Ascend Consultancy Business jet webinar
Ahead of the NBAA event now under way in Orlando, Florida, analysts at Flight Ascend Consultancy held their regular pre-show webinar, using their extensive data and valuations expertise to assess the state of the business aviation market, both in terms of new deliveries and residuals.