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...Qatar Airways also committed to an order of up to 20 G500 and G650ER aircraft for its corporate charter fleet....
...Quite apart from the fact that few operators have made the air taxi high-utilisation business model work, the aircraft’s tiny size limits its use for hire or charter....
...Indonesia will rise from the 16th to the 9th largest air travel market by 2014, the International Air Transport Association says....
...During its three-year stewardship, Permira grew the business partly through acquisitions, including the takeover of Midcoast Aviation and Savannah Air Center in the US....
...Mr Rowe draws a distinction between what he describes as the “ultra-rich”, who continue to buy large aircraft such as Bombardier’s Challenger 604 and the Gulfstream V, and the merely “moderately rich” who...
...Demand for private aircraft to evacuate people from Tunisia, Egypt and Libya rocketed, according to statistics from Avinode, the air-charter marketplace and data provider....
...In Spain last week to test-fly the updated version of the aircraft at the headquarters of Jet Ready, the air taxi and charter company, I was reminded of the importance of speed....
...The Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey is another. It is astonishingly capable, but also astonishingly expensive, as only military machinery can be....
...But that part of the task is usually handled by a flight department or pilot, or by a charter company....
...The super-large Gulfstream V/G500 went from $42m to $25.4m over the same period....
...The business jet sector already has several rival makers including Cessna, Gulfstream and Hawker Beechcraft of the US and Dassault of France....
...According to Honeywell Aerospace, a large systems supplier to the corporate jet makers, recent reports from the US Federal Aviation Administration and from Eurocontrol, the European air traffic control organisation...
...Air Partner, the world’s leading publicly listed air charter broker, has also reported a slowdown in spending by the corporate sector....
...Joint headquartered in London and The Hague, Shell owns three executive jets – two Dassault Falcon 900EX aircraft and a Gulfstream V – but also uses third party support, for example to transfer North Sea...
...Honeywell’s Phoenix-based aerospace division has also won engine contracts from Gulfstream, Air Tran and Airbus....
...Honeywell's Phoenix-based aerospace division has also won engine contracts from Gulfstream, Air Tran and Airbus....
...Air Partner, the world’s leading air charter broker, increased its profits sharply in the last financial year, as it took advantage of the rapid growth in global private aviation....
...But Richard Thomas, director of marketing at charter and JetCard operator Air Partner, points out: “There are no standard industry classifications.”...
...Air Partner, the world’s leading air charter broker listed on the London stock exchange....
...Delta AirElite, a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines, said bookings were up about 30 per cent from the same time last year....
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