Walt Wakefield, vice president for aircraft sales at Jet Aviation, said in a recent company publication that interest in corporate aircraft ownership has never been higher.
Florida-based Jet Aviation International Inc. is one of the largest operators, and Darleen DeLisle, public relations and advertising manager, credits its growth in good part to "the immense delays and security" at commercial air terminals.
Richard Lugg is a Maine neighbor of mine who has a company called HyperMach that is working on hyper-sonic jet engines for aviation and aerospace applications.
That bill would increase the general aviation jet fuel tax from 21.8 cents per gallon to 30.7 cents per gallon and would raise the general aviation gasoline tax from 19.3 cents per gallon to 24.1 cents per gallon.
The firm said it had also been hit by warm weather, which reduced demand for heating oil, and lower sales of jet fuel as the aviation industry struggled to recover from the aftermath of 11 September.
Charter jet firms, like TAG Aviation, complain that Blue Star pressures them to fly their planes at rates that barely cover overhead.
By 2016 the air force seeks to use a 50:50 blend of synthetic and ordinary jet fuel for half of its aviation requirements within America.
While third-party booking sites have become standard in the field of commercial aviation, in the private jet industry, PrivateFly is an innovator.
Tests using a cargo bay from a scrap jetliner similar to the jet were completed Thursday at a Federal Aviation Administration technical center in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey.
According to WINGX Advance, a market intelligence provider for the aviation industry, the private jet industry (including fractional and whole ownership) was practically stagnant in the U.S. last year, and declined by nearly 4 percent in Europe.
Sam Williams has designed a jet engine that weighs 85 pounds for Eclipse Aviation.
And that's what has gotten the National Business Aviation Association, which represents the corporate jet community, so fired up.
Aviation officials feared the dust could stop jet engines - an unacceptable hazard - and Ms McDonagh was among the thousands left stranded.
AirAsia and Tata are aiming to crack India's difficult aviation market where excessive government regulation and jet fuel prices that are among the highest in the world have stifled the industry.
This aircraft, which has been called the most important aviation development since the invention of the jet engine, has the ability to take off and land like a helicopter yet fly horizontally at speeds far in excess of those possible for helicopters.
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The ATA also wants Congress to put more of the cost burden on "general aviation"--including private and corporate jet travel--which commercial carriers say is largely responsible for air-traffic delays at congested airports.
In 1996, nearly 350 people were killed when two aircraft, one a Boeing 747 operated by Saudia collided with a Kazakh cargo jet over India, in the worst incident in Indian aviation.
The Malaysian airline and Tata are aiming to crack India's difficult aviation market, where excessive government regulation and jet fuel prices that are among the highest in the world have stifled the industry.
He says Eclipse Aviation will be "the world's volume jet leader" in 2008.
AirAsia and Tata are aiming to crack the difficult Indian market, where the aviation industry must contend with extensive government regulations and jet-fuel prices that are among the highest in the world.
About 50% of the U.S. jet fleet is leased from such companies as General Electric Capital Aviation Services (nyse: GE - news - people ), International Lease Finance Corp. (a unit of AIG) and CIT Group (nyse: CIT - news - people ).
Embraer also signed an agreement with Aviation Industries of China to co-produce the business jet Legacy.
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The Jet Lock was launched at an air-security conference the Federal Aviation Administration held Nov. 27 in Atlantic City, N.
The 787 Dreamliner is the biggest innovation in commercial aviation since the Boeing 707 introduced the world to passenger jet travel more than 50 years ago.
One of the sponsors of my Albuquerque speech was Eclipse Aviation, which makes the world's first very light jet, the Eclipse 500.
At issue is the Federal Aviation Administration's apparent delay in notifying NORAD the Northwest jet was not in contact with controllers, according to a senior U.S. official directly familiar with the timeline of the incident.
The French aviation company Dassault took their lead from eagles, when designing their latest business jet, the Falcon 7X.
The jet was from a training squadron at Naval Air Station Oceana, the Navy and Federal Aviation Administration said.
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Presently, the FAA is funded by both the General Fund of the U.S. Treasury and the Aviation Trust Fund, an account that receives a battery of taxes on tickets, cargo, jet fuel and frequent flyer awards.
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