Recession clobbers fractional-jet industry
The severe economic downturn that has crippled business aviation "also hurt Wichita's biggest customers for aircraft - the fractional-ownership providers," this story reports....
View ArticleJob outlook at Teterboro Airport remains bleak
Enrollment is up at Teterboro School of Aeronautics, where students learn how to repair and maintain airplanes. But the jobs outlook at Teterboro Airport, the largest base for business jet travel in...
View ArticleWall Street Has Many Things to Be Sorry About -- Just Not Corporate Jets
JPMorgan Chase (JPM) CEO Jamie Dimon and Bank of American (BAC) head Brian Moynihan flew via corporate aircraft to Washington, D.C., Wednesday to testify before a Congressional panel investigating the...
View ArticleBusiness aviation helps the bottom line
Minnesota companies derive many benefits from having company planes available for their employees.Media coverage in recent weeks has suggested that "business aviation" -- ownership and use of an...
View ArticleAir Serv International Responds to Haitis Earthquake Crisis
WARRENTON, VIRGINIA - This morning Air Serv International launched a light twin aircraft and crew to Haiti to support World Vision Internationals relief operations in the quake-stricken country.Air...
View ArticleAmway Jet Brings Missionaries from the Dakotas Back from Haiti
GRAND RAPIDS (WZZM) - The Amway corporate jet carried a medical team and supplies to Haiti Monday on a flight of mercy. It returned with 10 Americans who were on a medical mission trip when the...
View ArticleBeechcraft Baron Used for Airlift Operations
General aviation steps in to help HaitiBahamas Habitats aviation relief operation is up and running to Haiti, according to officials.Sunday (Jan. 17) was our third day of airlift operations into the...
View ArticleHands and Feet Project Helps Orphans in Haiti
The Hands and Feet Project cares for orphans in Haiti and relies on general aviation aircraft to receive their supplies, necessary equipment and medicine. These pilots are bringing in their own twin...
View ArticleHands and Feet Project Uses Business Aviation to Help Orphanages in Haiti
The Hands and Feet Project cares for orphans in Haiti and relies on general aviation aircraft to receive their supplies, necessary equipment and medicine. These pilots are bringing in their own twin...
View ArticlePA Company Uses Jet to Bring Doctors into Haiti
Cutting red tape was key to Haiti missionAs global and local organizations continue to struggle to get doctors and other medical volunteers to Haiti, the Hospital for Special Surgery credits its...
View ArticleNewton Doctor Joins Haiti Relief Effort
A Newton doctor is joining the earthquake relief efforts in Haiti.Dr. Jennifer Scott Koontz left Wednesday for what will be at least an eight-day trip to the country ravaged by an earthquake. Newton...
View ArticlePortland Truck Dealer Donates Corporate Jet to Fly Oregon Doctors to Haiti
A Portland truck dealership has donated its corporate jet -- and its CEO to pilot the jet -- to transport seven doctors and other health professionals from Oregon to Haiti this morning. In a news...
View ArticleLocal businessman donates use of plane to take medical supplies, water...
HUNTSVILLE, AL -- A plane that flew out of the Madison County Executive Airport Tuesday morning and headed toward Haiti will deliver equipment to provide 100,000 gallons of clean water a day and a...
View ArticleDoctors land in Wellington: Corporate plane carries medical team to Haiti
Wellington, Kan. Sometimes it's not always a game of numbers and dollars that measure the reaches of compassion. The human spirit will always bring its best effort against whatever Mother Nature...
View ArticleDowns Foods pilot flying workers to Haiti
MANKATO - Alex White wasn't surprised by what he saw Wednesday when the pilot touched down at the airport in Haiti. He had seen plenty of news coverage the past few days of the devastation created by...
View ArticlePittsburg company, other groups organize Haiti relief efforts
PITTSBURG, Kan. - Debbie Brock first helped the children of Haiti about 30 years ago as a missionary, so when news broke about relief efforts after last week's earthquake, she knew she wanted to...
View ArticleArea pilot flies surgeons, supplies to Haiti
Mike Conley, owner of Conley Insurance Group in Des Peres, delivered medical supplies and four surgeons to Hospital Sacre Coeur in Milot, Haiti, on Wednesday. Conley, a licensed pilot, chartered a...
View ArticleLocal Car Dealer Donates Resources To Help Haiti
COLORADO SPRINGS - A Colorado Springs car dealership owner is donating his services to relief efforts in Haiti.Bob Penkhus, owner of Bob Penkhus Volvo/Mazda dealership, is also a pilot. He has...
View ArticleMore Than 100 Biz Aircraft Support Haiti
Dassault Falcon Jet's 900EX EASy demonstrator flew a medical team from Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., to Cap-Haitien International Airport in northern Haiti yesterday as a part of business aviation's response...
View ArticleMass. Doctors Ship Out to Help in Haiti (VIDEO)
Hanscom Field, MA - It has been a frustrating week for American doctors stalled at Haiti's Port-au-Prince airport, but anxious to treat earthquake victims.Today, a group of Massachusetts physicians...
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