Air operations: data digitalisation in process
The airline operations sector had adapted itself to the numerical trend that began a decade ago with the digitization of data. However, even if many players have rushed into the breach, the disparity of offers remains a brake to the democratization of the daily use of...
Experts beyond business
Dominique Trinquet, President Boutsen Aviation, the Monaco-based brokerage firm founded by Thierry Boutsen, has sold a total of fifteen 7X Falcons, including ten of them since 2017. He tells Ultimate Jet why he has specialised in Dassault Falcon transactions. By...
Flying Colours trusted for thirty years
Just over thirty years ago John Gillespie merged his aircraft sales business Rapid Aircraft with his aircraft painting company Flying Colours Corp. Today as illustrated by the recent appointment of the company’s first European employee, Flying Colours is in full...
Insert Solutions : a wardrobe in a galley
In business jets, galleys drawers sometimes contain real treasures. There is thus a kind of wedge, difficult to describe, often made of Plexiglas or ultra-light technical foams. This object, innocuous but indispensable, has the role of maintaining in a perfect order...
iXAir: From Paris to Hollywood
The arrival of the Global Express at iXAir in 2015 marked a turning point in the history of the French company. This small revolution at the hexagonal scale allowed the operator to become in May 2019 the first French business aviation company to open offices in...
TSH Aviation: Ethics, Experience and Expertise
The Florida-based company TSH Aviation is today, despite its small size, renowned in the world of air brokerage. Created and managed by Thierry and Béatrice Huguenin, TSH Aviation is one of the most atypical companies on the market. Back on the success of a family...
Meeting with Jean Kayanakis, Dassault Aviation
Dassault Aviation is moving into the world of MRO. With the acquisition of the maintenance operations of TAG Aviation, ExecuJet and, recently, the Lugano and Geneva centers of RUAG, the manufacturer with the famous clover acquires not only a strong strategy to...
EBACE 2019: Green trend
This 2019 edition of the European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition was placed by the organizers under the banner of alternative fuels. A "green" touch, whose main objective is to highlight the efforts made in recent years, particularly by industry, to...
Training in NCC operations
Training in NCC operations Very much like commercial air transport (CAT) operators, according to EASA AIR OPS (Regulation (EU) 965/2012) non-commercial operators of complex motor-powered aircraft (NCC operators) having their principal place of business or residing in...
GAMA 2018 report
GAMA 2018 report Every year the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) publishes a report with statistics that describe the state of the general aviation industry worldwide, including business aviation. GAMA is an international trade association...
