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China business jet fleet saw lacklustre growth in 2015

The Asia-Pacific business jet fleet grew 6.2% in 2015 to 1,134 aircraft, with 66 new and 74 pre-owned aircraft entering the region. During 2015, however, the region saw 74 aircraft leave, and China’s business jet fleet growth was well below the regional average, rising just 3.8% to 300...

ABACE 2016 - The Ultimate In Cabin Luxury, Beauty And Functionality

ABACE 2016 is an aircraft interior design aficionado’s wonderland. The work of the world’s leading artisans, craftsmen and interior specialists is on display in the cabins of the business jets open for inspection on the static line, while inside the exhibition pavilions, the compani...

ICAO Secretary General to Keynote ABACE Show

The keynote speaker for this week’s Asian Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition (ABACE) will be Dr. Fang Liu, secretary general of ICAO. Dr. Liu is the first female ICAO secretary general and previously worked with the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC). She will address the ABACE opening general session at 10 am. on April 12. While...

Centenary celebration for Aviation centre

Cranwell Aviation Heritage Centre saw more than 300 people pass through its doors this weekend as they celebrated 100 Years of Aviation. Friday, April 1, marked the 100th anniversary of Cranwell opening as a Naval Air Service station and was a training station to teach officers to fly before becoming the Royal Air Force two years later. Mike Credland with his new exhibit at the Cranwell...

Aeria Looks to Bring Interior Skills Closer to Asian Clients

Aeria Luxury Interiors recently delivered the first new Boeing Business Jet (BBJ) that it has completed direct from the factory. The aircraft went to an undisclosed customer in Eastern Europe and the San Antonio, Texas-based company is now working to complete a VIP-configured Boeing widebodied airliner that it expects to deliver in the first quarter of 2017. Benefiting from fresh inve...

Piper and Piper Deutschland to display aircraft at AERO Friedrichshafen

Piper Aircraft Inc. and Piper Generalvertretung Deutschland are collaborating to display aircraft at the upcoming AERO Friedrichshafen 2015, to be held April 15-19. On display will be a single-engine Piper Meridian turboprop, a twin-engine Piper Seneca V, and a Piper Archer DX. “Year after year, AERO Friedrichshafen is where serious general aviation buyers congregate from across Eur...

Bombardier to showcase leading business jet lineup at ABACE 2016

Bombardier Business Aircraft announced today it will showcase three of its class-defining business aircraft at this year’s Asian Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition (ABACE) show at Shanghai’s Hongqiao airport in China from April 12-14, 2016. Bombardier’s Challenger 350, Challenger 650 and Global 6000 aircraft will be on display. “ABACE is ga...

Asian Business Aviation Association Hits New Heights

2015 was a milestone year for the Asian Business Aviation Association (AsBAA), which added 21 new members and saw its total membership exceed 100 for the first time since the organization was formed 16 years ago. “We are really making strides in being recognized as a disciplined association with pure unbiased intentions to improve business aviation as an industry across the region,” no...

Airbus displays ACJ319 at ABACE show

Airbus is exhibiting an ACJ319 at the ABACE show , where it will exemplify the larger and more modern corporate jets preferred by Chinese customers. The ACJ319 on display features conference, dining and lounge areas at the front, plus two separate rooms at the rear. It is offered for VVIP charter by Comlux The Aviation Group, and is certificated to transport 19 passengers – more than trad...

New app tells you what's outside the plane window

Have you ever wondered from your window seat at 35,000 feet exactly which town or city, lake or river, hill or mountain, you are gazing at down below? Of course you have. Well, now there’s an app that will help air passengers identify and explore the distinguishing features on the ground as they fly to their destination. Flyover Country, which is available to buy in the app store ...

ABACE: China’s private jet market goes quiet – for now

A Chinese proverb reads thus: All things are difficult before they are easy. This aptly sums up conditions for private jet makers in the previously booming China market. Prior to the last instalment of the Asian Business Aviation Conference (ABACE) show in Shanghai in April 2015, manufacturers commented on a sharply slowing market for private aircraft, mainly owing to a crackdown on corruptio...

Boeing Bridges UAE entrepreneurs success route

Boeing has invested US $225,000 in a three-year 'Start-Up Bridge Program' to aid budding UAE entrepreneurs. The aerospace giant has joined forces with INJAZ UAE, a non-profit member of the Junior Achievement Worldwide education initiative and TEJAR Dubai, a division of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce & Industry (DCCI), to deliver the program, which follows similar successful campaigns in...

Inflight Revolution Confirmed, PEC AIX 2016

Aviation software company Arconics shares the results of a recent online survey into airline passenger inflight entertainment and connectivity experiences and preferences, at the Passenger Experience Conference, 2016. Key findings: 81% of respondents regularly travel by air (monthly/a couple of times per year), with 7% flying weekly. 33% of respondents fly mainly for business. 100% of...

Victorian man who lost wife and son in Germanwings crash reportedly suing US flight school

An Australian man whose wife and son were among the 150 people killed when Germanwings Flight 9525 was deliberately crashed into the French Alps is reportedly suing the US flight school that trained the individual responsible. Victorian man David Friday is suing Lufthansa’s Airline Training Centre Arizona for failing to detect any problems with Andreas Lubitz, the German co-pilot who caus...

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