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...But it will now focus first on aircraft equipped with a more luxurious four-seat cabin for wealthy buyers and private-jet operators such as NetJets....
...So has NetJets, which has reported the highest demand for flying in its near 60-year history and is investing about $2.5bn in 100 new aircraft....
...Blackstone’s thesis rests in part on soaring demand for private flights as the rich shun commercial journeys amid the pandemic (Signature’s biggest customer, Warren Buffett-owned NetJets, is enticing new...
...“There are about 50m Indians that would be global middle-class,” says Jayant Sinha, India’s aviation minister and a former finance minister....
...“This agreement will mark the beginning of a new era in the aviation of North America, as the first and the largest cross-border alliance between Mexico and the United States,” Aeroméxico CEO Andrés Conesa...
...by aviation entrepreneur Kenn Ricci’s Directional Aviation Capital....
...For the first time, the aviation giant has launched its own branded cabin....
...NetJets China Business Aviation is a joint venture involving Warren Buffett’s NetJets Inc, Fung Investments of Hong Kong and Hony Capital, a Chinese private equity group....
...Fifty years ago, when NetJets was created, European chief executives might have had a Falcon hidden at Le Bourget, Paris’s general aviation airport, and private flying was seen “as some kind of secretive...
...Its launch customer is NetJets, the leading operator in the fractional market....
...NetJets has secured a licence to fly from the Chinese civil aviation authority, allowing it to set up in a country where there is little private jet activity....
...What underpinned the fractional ownership world was rapid access to aviation assets....
...aviation authority....
...“We’re not trying to be another NetJets,” he says....
...Pat Gallagher, head of sales for NetJets, which allows customers to buy predetermined slots to use private jets, says the new models will eliminate some of the frustrations users have faced....
...Usman Ahmed, senior aviation analyst at the International Bureau of Aviation consultancy, says Bell has “woken up in Europe....
...The business of owning a part share of an aircraft to ensure guaranteed access for a set number of hours has been around for almost three decades, with the advent of NetJets in 1986....
...The corporate aviation sector has already been there....
...He describes the experience as a fast-track management course, including the tricky issue of family relations....
...NetJets, which sells ownership shares in business jets, is buying up to 425 new aircraft worth $9.6bn in what the company has described as the biggest deal in the history of private aviation....
...Related reading: Corporate aviation market takes off in Indonesia, FT Indonesia: on the up, unevenly, beyondbrics Indonesia: buying prime London homes, beyondbrics...
...www.intrepidtravel.com/shackleton China Beijing will overtake Atlanta as the world’s busiest airport next year according to OAG, the aviation data provider....
...Materialise, meanwhile, is working with the aviation and automotive industries. But for the moment, the technology is at its most engaging for small creative projects....
...That might help unstick finance and keep down taxes, but Mr Aboulafia is not expecting any sort of full-throttle, V-shaped recovery any time soon....
...NetJets Europe, the private jet company, provides training on request for its passengers....
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