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Page 01 28/8/08 4:26 pm Page 1<br />

EUROPEAN<br />

BUSINESS AIR NEWS<br />

Rizon Jet plans a<br />

Challenger and<br />

Hawker fleet for<br />

all seasons<br />

Bahrain-based Rizon Jet is investing<br />

US$15 million in a U.K. base but<br />

believes a major driver for business<br />

for its expanding fleet based on<br />

Challengers and Hawkers will come<br />

from the East.<br />

The busy period in the Gulf is from<br />

November through to May and<br />

conversely the busiest period in<br />

Europe is April to October, says ceo<br />

William Curtis. “So we envisage<br />

moving aircraft and crews from<br />

one region to the other to meet<br />

seasonal demand. This will make<br />

our operation much more<br />

efficient in terms of capacity<br />

management and consequently<br />

enhance ultimate returns.”<br />

Curtis adds: “We will also operate<br />

out of the Gulf to the developing<br />

economies such as India, China and<br />

Asia. We expect to see substantial<br />

growth in investment in these areas<br />

as the U.S. and <strong>European</strong> economies<br />

cool. The mood of business in the<br />

Gulf is very much eastward facing.<br />

However we also think there will be a<br />

continuing demand for business<br />

aviation in Europe due to leisure<br />

related travel as much as business<br />

related travel.”<br />

Rizon Jet’s parent company, Rizon<br />

Group Holdings, has secured a long<br />

lease on land at London Biggin Hill<br />

<strong>Air</strong>port that enables an immediate<br />

start on construction work. “This<br />

landmark expansion which will link<br />

our Middle East operations with<br />

Europe and enhance the service we<br />

are able to offer clients traveling to<br />

and from London.” Rizon Jet is<br />

currently negotiating for further<br />

aircraft although these won’t enter<br />

service until early in the next decade.<br />

“We are also looking carefully at new<br />

designs, such as the Learjet 85. We try<br />

for new aircraft wherever possible.”<br />

Rizon Jet’s Gulf expansion plans:<br />

see page 10.<br />

Job of the Month<br />

Commanders & first officers<br />

JetAlliance Flugbetriebs<br />

See page 15<br />

Gulf ready for healthy growth<br />

in medevac business page 3<br />

Falcon 200 expands<br />

Goldeck-Flug’s horizons page 4<br />

U.K. mobile command<br />

unit first for County <strong>Air</strong><br />

Ambulance page 5<br />

Amphibian ‘magic’ builds<br />

For details of how to enter, see page 3.<br />

growing business for Seawings<br />

page 6<br />

Private Jet Company takes<br />

Isle of Man to new private<br />

aviation heights page 11<br />

SPECIAL FOCUSES<br />

Music stars in tune with<br />

FBO services page 8<br />

Country For details focus: of how to Russia enter, see page page 3. 12<br />

Latest industry news page 13<br />

ISSUE 185 SEPTEMBER 2008<br />

G450 arrival<br />

highlights<br />

Gulfstream priority<br />

Germany's DC Aviation is giving special priority to the expansion of its fleet of Gulfstreams with a new G450 just delivered and more<br />

ordered for 2009. Dieter Heinen, Marc Ambrosius and Stefan Buschle celebrate the latest delivery. Full story page 6.<br />

<strong>Air</strong> Alpha ceo fashions charter and one-stop<br />

shop growth targeting Europe and Russia<br />

<strong>Air</strong> Alpha is building a highly varied<br />

business jet fleet based on three<br />

Citation Vs, a Challenger 300, a<br />

Challenger 605, a Learjet 60XR and a<br />

Global Express as a new ceo fashions<br />

the company’s one-stop shop<br />

expansion. “The fleet expansion will<br />

make <strong>Air</strong> Alpha a full-scale charter<br />

operator, covering all the aircraft sizes<br />

that are in demand,” says Jesper<br />

Carvalho Andersen, group md and<br />

ceo of <strong>Air</strong> Alpha A/S.<br />

Andersen, formerly ceo of<br />

Scandinavian fashion group Inditex.<br />

says the Citation V now in operation<br />

for charters will be joined by two preowned<br />

Citation Vs. “The rest of the<br />

aircraft on order are factory new.” In<br />

addition, <strong>Air</strong> Alpha has three PC-12s<br />

on management contracts. “The<br />

Citation V is a very popular aircraft<br />

because of the number of passengers<br />

it holds relative to its operating costs<br />

Jesper Carvalho Andersen: expansion<br />

plans include Russia.<br />

and it is the perfect aircraft for inter-<br />

<strong>European</strong> travel. The combination of<br />

range, payload, runway performance<br />

and operation costs makes it the<br />

right aircraft type for our clients<br />

right now,” Andersen adds.<br />

<strong>Air</strong> Alpha’s main focus is ad hoc<br />

charters in Europe. “Most of our<br />

customers are business people<br />

from sectors including finance<br />

and the shipping industry, often<br />

traveling routes such as the U.K. to<br />

Poland and Scandinavia to Russia to<br />

name just two.”<br />

The expansion means that <strong>Air</strong><br />

Alpha, headquartered at Odense<br />

airport, is looking for pilots.<br />

Andersen says: “Obviously, as we are<br />

expanding our fleet, we will be<br />

needing more flight planners and<br />

administrative personnel in our<br />

charter department soon too.”<br />

But the <strong>Air</strong> Alpha Group has built a<br />

broad “one-stop shop” business and<br />

now sells, maintains and operates<br />

aircraft offering all aviation related<br />

businesses, including interior,<br />

painting, aircraft modifications<br />

with design organisation approval,<br />

avionics and spare parts.<br />

Established in 1991, <strong>Air</strong> Alpha<br />

For fuel, ground services and all your trip arrangements<br />

CONTACT dispatch@avcard.com<br />

Will you be attending<br />

the NBAA show in Orlando?<br />

Visit us at booth #2345<br />

Relentless rescue<br />

work promised<br />

by Grob ceo<br />

after insolvency<br />

Grob Aerospace management says it<br />

has been encouraged by interest from<br />

investors and support from potential<br />

operators of the spn after the company<br />

filed for insolvency following new<br />

development program setbacks.<br />

Niall Olver, ceo of both Grob and<br />

ExecuJet Aviation Group, says: “It is a<br />

testimony to all involved that, amidst<br />

this situation, our fourth prototype<br />

flew successfully on 7th August thus<br />

further demonstrating that Grob<br />

Aerospace is advanced on the way to<br />

certify an aircraft that well promises to<br />

meet its specification. Please accept<br />

that the severity and significance of<br />

this situation is not at all lost on us,<br />

and we are working relentlessly on a<br />

solution to ensure the minimum<br />

impact to employees, customers,<br />

other stakeholders and supporters.”<br />

The PlaneSense aircraft fractional<br />

ownership program says it has closely<br />

followed the developments leading to<br />

the declaration of insolvency by Grob<br />

Aerospace GmbH in the German<br />

courts. “We continue to stand by our<br />

fleet purchase order of 25 Grob spn<br />

aircraft,” says George Antoniadis,<br />

president and ceo of Alpha Flying, Inc.,<br />

the program manager for PlaneSense.<br />

“We believe that the Grob spn is the<br />

best large cabin light jet to fulfill the<br />

needs of the PlaneSense program<br />

participants. Its combination of large<br />

cabin size, fuel and operational<br />

efficiencies, and short field<br />

performance is unique. We look<br />

forward to hearing news of a prompt<br />

reorganisation of Grob Aerospace.”<br />

Other companies which have<br />

ordered the spn include Jetline which<br />

Continued on page 10.<br />

started out as a small air taxi<br />

company. From 1992 to 1996 it<br />

carried out contract flying for<br />

the United Nations, including<br />

several assignments in Afghanistan,<br />

alongside charter contracts in<br />

Greenland and Greece. In 1997 <strong>Air</strong><br />

Alpha signed the first contracts with<br />

Greenland's home rule government<br />

which were renewed until 2006<br />

when its Greenland operations were<br />

sold to <strong>Air</strong> Greenland. In 1997, <strong>Air</strong><br />

Alpha collaborated as a strategic<br />

partner at the establishment of<br />

ExecuJet Scandinavia.<br />

Earlier this year, the group<br />

acquired three painting interior<br />

and avionics companies. (See last<br />

April’s EBAN).<br />

Andersen says: “Our overall main<br />

focus now is on sales, maintenance<br />

and operation within private and<br />

Continued on page 5.


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DRF trains staff to help colleagues overcome<br />

stress and trauma from difficult missions<br />

Deutsche Rettungsflugwacht (DRF),<br />

the German air rescue organisation, is<br />

training its staff, including pilots, in<br />

techniques to support colleagues<br />

suffering stress from mission trauma.<br />

Dr. Jörg Braun, medical director,<br />

says the DRF has established a<br />

comprehensive peer training system<br />

which 20 staff based at DRF air rescue<br />

centres have completed. "They will<br />

support their colleagues in dealing<br />

with disastrous events in their daily<br />

mission life,” he adds. “The demand<br />

and the extent of the mission review<br />

can vary individually. Some<br />

individuals can do without any<br />

support. For others, interventions in<br />

order to cope with stressful<br />

experiences can be the right thing.<br />

Others might need more, maybe even<br />

professional support.”<br />

He explains that peers are staff<br />

trained to help their colleagues. “They<br />

are trained in psycho-social help and<br />

will show their colleagues ways<br />

and techniques such as structured<br />

dialogues how to deal with stressful<br />

missions. In this context they closely<br />

work with mental health professionals,<br />

who support them in their responsible<br />

tasks. In addition, a peer is a<br />

person that can be contacted during<br />

daily business who can communicate<br />

preventive stress management<br />

techniques, which serve to facilitate<br />

long-term stress management.”<br />

Pilots, paramedics and emergency<br />

physicians of the DRF’s air rescue<br />

centres at Niebüll, Rendsburg,<br />

Bremen, Stuttgart, Freiburg and<br />

Zwickau have been trained in<br />

cooperation with the Institut Psycho<br />

Trauma Switzerland (IPTS) led by Dr.<br />

Gisela Perren-Klinger. The peers are<br />

also available to DRF’s other rescue<br />

centres but the long-term goal is to<br />

have them based at all the centres.<br />

The overall 40-hour peer training<br />

takes place in two stages. Trainees are<br />

taught how to recognise traumatic<br />

stress – what reactions can be<br />

considered normal and what might be<br />

pathological – and how to calm down<br />

colleagues showing signs of stress.<br />

“Techniques dealing with how to<br />

DRF is training its staff to help colleagues cope with operational stress.<br />

initiate and implement single and<br />

group debriefings are part of the<br />

training,” Braun says. “In addition, the<br />

peers learn how to protect themselves<br />

from stress. Practical exercises enable<br />

the appropriate techniques to be<br />

learnt in realistic environments.”<br />

This training is followed by further<br />

courses focusing on communication<br />

and perception and the peers<br />

benefit through regular input from<br />

experienced professional specialists.<br />

Braun points out: “In air rescue<br />

operations, crew members are<br />

confronted with extreme and possibly<br />

traumatic situations. In order to be<br />

able to pursue this demanding<br />

profession for many years and<br />

maintain a healthy outlook, it is<br />

necessary to talk about missions and<br />

about possibly critical incidents. Crew<br />

members have to learn to care for<br />

themselves and care for their<br />

colleagues; they should observe each<br />

other and learn their own ways how to<br />

Gulf ready for healthy medevac growth<br />

The growing focus on the development<br />

of the rotary air medical sector<br />

in the Arab Gulf region is being<br />

highlighted by this year’s Dubai<br />

Helishow. Abdulla Abulhoul,<br />

md, Mediac Communications &<br />

Exhibitions LLC says: “The time is right<br />

for the launch of a specialist exhibition<br />

which focuses on air ambulance, air<br />

rescue, air evacuation and other<br />

medical transport services.”<br />

The decision to hold the Dubai <strong>Air</strong><br />

Medical & Rescue Show 2008 alongside<br />

Dubai Helishow 2008 from 11-13<br />

November has been welcomed by Dr<br />

Fatih Mehmet Gul a flight physician,<br />

project manager for Saudi HEMS and<br />

founder of <strong>Air</strong> Ambulance Arabia.<br />

He says that, although the aero<br />

medical field does not share the same<br />

rapid pace of development as the new<br />

health care facilities, plans are being<br />

studied by bodies including Dubai<br />

HEMS. “There is a new focus on quality<br />

to raise the level of medical care<br />

provided in the region,” Dr. Gul says.<br />

“In the next few years, people will look<br />

for better services in every sector. The<br />

healthcare field in particular will<br />

require better patient transfer<br />

services.” Today’s air ambulance<br />

market in the Gulf Cooperation<br />

Council, which includes Saudi Arabia,<br />

Kuwait, the UAE, Oman, Bahrain and<br />

Qatar, is ready for the development of a<br />

greater number of professional<br />

companies in the region.<br />

Dr. Gul: new focus on quality.<br />

Abulhoul: rising air taxi demand.<br />

Abulhoul says that rising demand<br />

for air taxi services is driving helicopter<br />

orders. “Helicopter charter companies<br />

in the UAE, which traditionally served<br />

the oil and gas industry and SAR are<br />

benefiting from, for instance, the need<br />

to ferry executives, owners, and<br />

potential investors to the Palm and<br />

World islands.”<br />

He adds: “Dubai is well placed to<br />

service the demand from the Middle<br />

East, Europe, Africa, Russia, India and<br />

Asia. Industry insiders point out that<br />

local investment community showed<br />

considerable interest in setting up a<br />

joint venture development to<br />

manufacture helicopters using the<br />

latest technology from leading global<br />

players.” Helicopters are also being<br />

used for sky banners serving UAE<br />

advertisers and event promoters.<br />

Exhibitors this year show include:<br />

AgustaWestland; Italy Aviator &<br />

Aviation; Boeing; Emirates-CAE Flight<br />

Training; Eurocopter; Falcon Aviation;<br />

Hawker Pacific <strong>Air</strong> Services; Horizon<br />

International Training Academy;<br />

Aerolite Max Bucher; Avicorp; Bristow<br />

Helicopters; GENA Systems; Pall<br />

Corporation and RFD Beaufort.<br />

deal with stress.”<br />

Jörg Baudach, who has recently<br />

taken charge of DRF aircraft<br />

operations, says that conversations<br />

with colleagues were cited<br />

prominently in surveys where rescue<br />

team members were asked about the<br />

most helpful experiences in dealing<br />

with the aftermath of after critical<br />

SEPTEMBER 2008 3<br />

Winfried Beikler: consultancy role. Jörg Baudach: helpful approach.<br />

mission situations.<br />

Baudach this summer took over<br />

from Winfried Beikler who joined the<br />

DRF in 1990 and became chief<br />

helicopter pilot and then deputy<br />

director of aircraft operations. In 1997<br />

he took over as director of aircraft<br />

operations. Beikler will still be<br />

available as a consultant for the DRF.<br />

Key London City role for<br />

landmark 200th Challenger<br />

Austrian-based VistaJet has<br />

allocated a key London City airport<br />

role to the 200th Challenger 300 to<br />

be delivered by Bombardier. The<br />

aircraft, received by VistaJet in July<br />

along with a Challenger 605 and<br />

Challenger 850, entered service on 1<br />

August this year.<br />

Bing Chen, VistaJet ceo, says:<br />

“The Challenger 605 steep approach<br />

capability is key to access at London<br />

City. The plan is that it will focus on<br />

meeting the increasing demand<br />

linking business and government<br />

leaders to the heart of London’s<br />

financial district.”<br />

Chen says the Challenger 605 and<br />

the company’s Learjet 40XR aircraft<br />

are an “ideal combination” for<br />

clients using London City. To use the<br />

airport an aircraft must demonstrate<br />

its ability to be flown safely at a 5.5degree<br />

or greater approach angle,<br />

take off and land on the airport’s<br />

4,327 ft runway, and meet the local<br />

noise requirements. The Challenger<br />

605 received approval for steep<br />

approach and landing in 2007.<br />

Eric Martel, vp and gm, Challenger<br />

and Global, says the 200th delivery<br />

represents a “fantastic milestone.”<br />

VistaJet’s plans to establish a<br />

powerful presence in Moscow were<br />

reported in EBAN July.<br />

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4 SEPTEMBER 2008 EUROPEAN BUSINESS AIR NEWS<br />

Falcon 2000 expands Goldeck-Flug’s horizons<br />

Austria’s Goldeck-Flug reports brisk<br />

demand for its Falcon 2000 acquired to<br />

meet passenger demand for<br />

comfortable long range aircraft.<br />

“Pilots like the aircraft system<br />

layout, the good landing field<br />

performance and the high maximum<br />

landing weight allowing more<br />

operational flexibility on flights<br />

with multiple legs,” says Capt.<br />

Friedrich Pontasch, deputy flight<br />

operations manager.<br />

He adds: “This was a logical step<br />

into heavy size segment enabling<br />

Goldeck-Flug to fit the increasing<br />

demand of their clients for a larger<br />

cabin and long range aircraft.”<br />

Goldeck-Flug, launched in 1991<br />

with a Citation 501 and a Citation 560,<br />

now has a Citation Ultra, a Learjet 55,<br />

two Citation Excels, two Hawker<br />

800XPs and a Bell 206 JetRanger in<br />

operation. “With the addition of the<br />

Falcon 2000, our fleet fits the need of<br />

our customers very well,” says<br />

Elite Jets<br />

reports strong<br />

demand for<br />

the G450<br />

Dubai’s Elite Jets reports buoyant<br />

demand for its new G450 and its<br />

features designed to promote<br />

passenger wellbeing. “I am<br />

extremely pleased with our new<br />

aircraft. Our clients are truly<br />

enjoying their travel experience,”<br />

says Ammar Balkar, president and<br />

ceo. “This G450 is currently the<br />

first and only one available for<br />

charter in Dubai. It comes with<br />

upgraded engines, the latest avionics<br />

technology, and aerodynamic<br />

enhancements, and comfortably<br />

seats 14 passengers.”<br />

Balkar says other attractions<br />

include a range that enables it to<br />

take six passengers 13 hours nonstop<br />

from Dubai to destinations as<br />

far as Tokyo, Helsinki or Cape Town.<br />

“There is a maximum cruising<br />

altitude is up to 45,000 feet, but<br />

the G450 can climb to its initial<br />

cruising altitude of 41,000 feet in less<br />

than 23 minutes.<br />

The G450 cabin’s space was a prime<br />

attraction.<br />

“The improved aerodynamics<br />

means the clients feel only a short<br />

and very smooth assent,” he adds.<br />

“Twelve Gulfstream signature oval<br />

windows increase the sense of<br />

spaciousness and, during daylight,<br />

substantially brighten the cabin with<br />

an abundance of natural light,<br />

helping to counter the effects of jet<br />

lag. Equally significant for passenger<br />

well-being is the 100 per cent fresh<br />

air and the Therapeutic Oxygen<br />

Outlet with Bubble Humidifier<br />

inside the cabin that ensures the<br />

cabin altitude will never reach above<br />

6,000 feet.” There are three separate<br />

climate control zones and a fullyfunctional<br />

galley.<br />

Elite Jets was established at<br />

the Dubai <strong>Air</strong>port Free Zone in<br />

January 2004 and provides charter,<br />

aircraft sales brokerage and aircraft<br />

management services.<br />

Goldeck-Flug celebrates the addition of the Falcon 2000 to the fleet. Pictured from left to right are: Capt. Friedrich Pontasch, Marina<br />

Leopold, Johann Lobnig, Yolanda Wirth, Capt. Karlheinz Miklau and Patrick Balazs.<br />

Pontasch. “The Falcon 2000 offers a<br />

quiet and comfortable cabin in a 10<br />

passenger layout and a large baggage<br />

compartment. The aircraft will<br />

perform well in the increasing<br />

demand for flights to and from longer<br />

range destinations in Middle East,<br />

Russia, China and Africa.”<br />

The majority of the fleet is based at<br />

the Klagenfurt headquarters but<br />

“Customers can see<br />

Pentastar’s passion for<br />

safety in our choice of<br />

FlightSafety training.”<br />

Edsel B. Ford II<br />

Owner and Chairman, Pentastar Aviation<br />

“At CitationShares our focus<br />

is the safety of our customers,<br />

crew and aircraft. That’s why<br />

we insist on FlightSafety’s<br />

professional training.”<br />

Steven O’Neill<br />

CEO, CitationShares<br />

“Richmor insists on<br />

FlightSafety, knowing its<br />

training will deliver quality,<br />

value and consistency.”<br />

Mahlon Richards<br />

President, Richmor Aviation<br />

Goldeck-Flug bases a Citation Excel<br />

and the Learjet 55 in Vienna. The<br />

Citation Ultra and the two Excels have<br />

a nine passenger layout and are<br />

mainly used within Europe.<br />

“FlightSafety shares<br />

TWC’s high standards<br />

for passenger safety.<br />

We rely on their advanced<br />

simulator technology and<br />

training capabilities.”<br />

Andrew Richmond<br />

President, TWC Aviation<br />

Titan targets<br />

music, cars<br />

and football<br />

London-Stansted based Titan <strong>Air</strong>ways<br />

has transformed a 130 passenger<br />

Boeing 737 into a 44 seat aircraft for<br />

corporate charter. Alastair Kiernan,<br />

commercial director says: “The new<br />

layout, representing an investment of<br />

£0.5 million, affords plenty of personal<br />

space and leg room, making it an ideal<br />

size for incentives, product launches,<br />

music tours and football charters,<br />

including one London premiership<br />

football team.”<br />

The 737 was showcased to brokers<br />

after work by Inflite at London<br />

Stansted. <strong>Air</strong> charter broker Trevor<br />

Wright from Planesense said it was<br />

“perfect for <strong>European</strong> car launches or<br />

conference and incentive trips.”<br />

Lawrence Reed from <strong>Air</strong> Partner plc<br />

added: “Its appeal is also its generous<br />

hold capacity, which will be a strong<br />

selling point for the music tour.”<br />

“Jet Aviation’s services<br />

are personalized to<br />

perfection, just like<br />

FlightSafety’s training.”<br />

Peter G. Edwards<br />

CEO, Jet Aviation Group<br />

“Mayo Aviation is committed<br />

to attaining the highest<br />

industry standards, and<br />

we know FlightSafety<br />

shares that commitment.”<br />

Bill Mayo<br />

CEO, Mayo Aviation<br />

“Everyone at Key <strong>Air</strong> has<br />

one goal: safe, reliable air<br />

service. FlightSafety training<br />

ensures that we achieve it.”<br />

Brad D. Kost<br />

President and CEO, Key <strong>Air</strong>


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EUROPEAN BUSINESS AIR NEWS<br />

County gains first U.K. mobile command and control unit<br />

County <strong>Air</strong> Ambulance reports that it is<br />

the first air ambulance service in the<br />

U.K. to take delivery of a state-of-theart<br />

helicopter mobile command and<br />

control unit. Ian Clayton, operations<br />

manager, says: “The unit has been<br />

designed to manage a safe and orderly<br />

flow of air ambulance flights should a<br />

major emergency incident occur<br />

anywhere in the Midlands’ region.”<br />

West Midlands Ambulance Service<br />

assigned the £30,000 unit to County<br />

which currently operates three aircraft<br />

and provides a secondary service to<br />

neighbouring regions.<br />

Ian Clayton, operations manager,<br />

explains: “Should County be called<br />

upon to attend a major emergency<br />

situation, it is likely that air ambulances<br />

will also respond from all over the U.K.<br />

It is therefore necessary to coordinate<br />

air safety at the scene and near<br />

receiving hospitals, and our mobile<br />

command unit makes this possible.”<br />

County has been on a recruitment<br />

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County <strong>Air</strong> Ambulance is celebrating the introduction of a mobile command and control<br />

unit. Pictured left to right are: Ian Clayton, air operations manager; flight paramedic<br />

Steph Cormack; Anthony Marsh, ceo WMAS; flight doctor Keith Roberts; Steve<br />

Wheaton, head of specialist operations WMAS and flight paramedic Dan Stretton.<br />

drive to boost the number of<br />

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Gregory Thomas<br />

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Twelve new paramedics recently<br />

completed their basic air competency<br />

training and have been recruited to<br />

flight operations with County <strong>Air</strong><br />

“TAG is a leader in private<br />

air travel solutions. We<br />

turn to FlightSafety for<br />

training that matches the<br />

demanding expectations<br />

of our customers.”<br />

Robert Wells<br />

President and CEO, TAG Aviation<br />

FlightSafety is the world’s premier aviation training organization,<br />

providing the optimal value that only the leader can deliver,<br />

combining technological innovation and the best people.<br />

Leadership. More than 75,000 individuals choose to train<br />

with us each year. We operate 40 Learning Centers worldwide<br />

and are honored to serve as the authorized training provider<br />

for the majority of business aircraft manufacturers.<br />

Technology. We design and manufacture the advanced<br />

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Ambulance. Another three paramedics<br />

were recruited to full-time positions<br />

with the air service.<br />

County recently commenced<br />

operations over a 16-hour period with<br />

two flight crews operating a shift<br />

system at the RAF Cosford base,<br />

covering the operational area between<br />

0600 and 2200 every day of the week.<br />

But increased fuel prices are hitting<br />

County hard, costing the charity an<br />

extra £130,000 a year. County’s Steve<br />

Parry, says: “The hourly fuel bill is<br />

currently £104. From October, when<br />

our fixed price deal ends, the fuel cost is<br />

expected to reach over £170 an hour. It<br />

is likely we will see our fuel bill increase<br />

by as much as 60% by the end of<br />

the year.”<br />

The air ambulance burns 245 litres<br />

of jet fuel every 60 minutes, with the<br />

helicopters flying over 2,000 hours<br />

every year to 3,500 incidents.<br />

“Preferential rates are given to the<br />

charity by its fuel supplier,” Parry adds.<br />

SEPTEMBER 2008 5<br />

Grand adventure<br />

results in<br />

round-theworld<br />

record<br />

Russia posed some of the biggest<br />

problems as pilots Scott Kasprowicz<br />

and Steve Sheik flew around the<br />

world in a helicopter in 11 days seven<br />

hours and two minutes to set a<br />

new world speed record. The pilots<br />

broke the current record by almost<br />

six days with an average speed<br />

of 74 knots over the entire 11<br />

days including stops, with an<br />

average speed of 150 knots while<br />

in the air. The record of the<br />

flight will be submitted to the<br />

National Aeronautic Association<br />

for ratification.<br />

They used a factory-standard<br />

AgustaWestland Grand to cover 18<br />

countries, 24 time zones, 49 states,<br />

78 fuel stops and almost 21,000<br />

nautical miles.<br />

“This has been the trip of a lifetime<br />

and is a remarkable achievement<br />

for all of us,” says Kasprowicz. “We<br />

had some challenging situations,<br />

especially in Russia, and the planning<br />

and coordination at each control<br />

point was key to our success.”<br />

No mission specific modifications<br />

or additional fuel tanks were<br />

added to improve the Grand’s<br />

performance.<br />

Landing at the end of the record-breaking<br />

round-the-world flight.<br />

Kasprowicz and his co-pilot Steve<br />

Sheik travelled eastbound across the<br />

Atlantic into Europe via Greenland,<br />

traversed western and eastern Europe<br />

into Russia, crossed 11 time zones in<br />

Russia, returned to North America<br />

over the Bering Strait crossing the<br />

U.S, and returning to New York City.<br />

<strong>Air</strong> Alpha fashions charter and<br />

one-stop shop growth<br />

Continued from page 1<br />

business aviation, focusing on<br />

markets in Europe, including the<br />

Baltic countries and Russia.” He adds:<br />

“Our one stop shop concept will be<br />

applied to other markets in the<br />

Nordic-Baltic countries and Russia,<br />

over the next few years.”<br />

Peter Høgsberg, director Russia,<br />

<strong>Air</strong> Alpha aircraft sales, says the<br />

company is still waiting for the final<br />

Russian certification of the engine for<br />

the Pilatus NG. “I expect that in<br />

October,” he reports. <strong>Air</strong> Alpha, the<br />

exclusive distributor of PC-12 NG in<br />

Russia, expects to take delivery of a<br />

total of five of the new model by<br />

December depending on final<br />

certification with Russia’s Dexter <strong>Air</strong><br />

Taxis among the buyers. Andersen<br />

says: “Dexter has received four out of<br />

a total of 25 aircraft, and another four<br />

will be added to its fleet by the end of<br />

this year.”<br />

He says: “In addition we have<br />

considerable expectations for the<br />

forthcoming business aviation<br />

show, Jet Expo 2008, which takes<br />

place at the Moscow Crocus<br />

Centre this September 17-19. This<br />

will be our third time attending<br />

the show, and we are looking<br />

forward to meeting existing and<br />

potential customers.”


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6 SEPTEMBER 2008 EUROPEAN BUSINESS AIR NEWS<br />

Seawing's directors are planning expansion. Pictured, from left to right are: Peter Groves, director; David Stockwell, director; Sheikh Saeed Mohammed Hasher Al Maktoum,<br />

chairman and ceo; and Stuart Wheeler director.<br />

Amphibian ‘magic’ builds growing business for<br />

Seawings in ever-changing scenic Dubai<br />

Seawings, which provides Dubaibased<br />

aerial sightseeing tours, is<br />

planning expansion. “We are<br />

looking at the possibilities of adding<br />

more aircraft to our fleet in the near<br />

future,” says chairman Sheikh Saeed<br />

Mohammed Hasher Al Maktoum.<br />

The company is registered as <strong>Air</strong><br />

Charter International (Arabia) Ltd.<br />

and its tourist flights are based on<br />

three Cessna 208 Caravans offered by<br />

Seawings LLC and operated by Jet-<br />

Ops FZE. “We chose our current fleet<br />

on criteria based on excellent<br />

reputation of Cessna products,”<br />

director Peter Groves says. “There is<br />

an attractive ease of maintenance and<br />

we have a well qualified maintenance<br />

team that looks after all three aircraft.”<br />

Another director, David Stockwell,<br />

A Cessna 208 Caravan lands after a<br />

'magical' tour of Dubai's iconic<br />

landmarks.<br />

points out that the Caravan has a<br />

cabin size that enables it to carry nine<br />

passengers and a pilot and its range<br />

allows a tour of up to two hours.<br />

Seawings started operations in<br />

August 2007 with one aircraft and a<br />

team of 14. It now employs more than<br />

35 staff, operates the three Caravans<br />

Club328 enters insolvency<br />

London Biggin Hill-based private jet<br />

company Club328 has been wound up<br />

in the U.K.’s County Courts. The<br />

hearing on 11 July this year in Brighton<br />

was held after some 30 creditors<br />

claiming a combined total of £550,000<br />

signed a petition brought by the<br />

Club328’s former ceo Elaine Young.<br />

The U.K. government Insolvency<br />

Agency is determining the extent of<br />

assets in consultation with the<br />

directors Paul Crowther, owner of<br />

Planechartering and Mark Edworthy<br />

from General Capital Plc. Club328 Ltd<br />

was acquired from Quest Aviation<br />

Services, formerly Corporate Jet<br />

Services. Quest also owns 328 Support<br />

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Services GmbH and Southamptonbased<br />

engineering company JETS.<br />

After the acquisition Club328’s<br />

headquarters was moved from<br />

Southampton airport to London<br />

Biggin Hill. The Club328 fleet included<br />

a Dornier 328, two Premier 1s and two<br />

managed Hawker 800s and the fleet of<br />

Planechartering included a Beech<br />

Super King <strong>Air</strong> 200 and Citation I. The<br />

takeover of Club328 brought<br />

Planechartering an AOC and a staff of<br />

around 30 who have either left or been<br />

made redundant, according to<br />

petitioner Elaine Young who has<br />

appointed Robinsons Solicitors<br />

of Derby.<br />

and is planning to acquire more.<br />

Sheikh Saeed says: “The Caravans<br />

have established a reputation for<br />

providing a magical journey across<br />

Dubai’s dramatic and ever changing<br />

coastal skyline. The Caravan provides<br />

great views from each seat,<br />

exhilarating water take off and<br />

landing, a luxury cabin with leather<br />

seating and air conditioned comfort.<br />

The flight provides an opportunity to<br />

capture the unique views of Dubai’s<br />

most iconic landmarks but Seawings<br />

understands business needs and what<br />

is required to organise a perfect day<br />

for meetings, incentives, conferences<br />

and exhibitions. Therefore, the guests<br />

now have a choice of experiencing<br />

one or more of the resort facilities<br />

before or after the flight.” These, he<br />

London Executive Aviation, which<br />

reports that its first Challenger 300<br />

has registered more than 450 charter<br />

and 200 owners hours in just over a<br />

year, says a just-delivered second<br />

(pictured above) is set to chalk up<br />

similar business. The second<br />

Challenger 300, based at Luton,<br />

has been purchased by an existing<br />

LEA aircraft owner. “Passengers<br />

says, include golf, the beach and water<br />

sports, a spa and fine dining.<br />

The company recruits pilots based<br />

on criteria including minimum flying<br />

hours, licence and aircraft flying<br />

experience. It does not recruit<br />

cabin crew but uses customer<br />

representatives to assist clients.<br />

<strong>Business</strong> is being referred through<br />

travel agents, tour operators, hotels<br />

and comes from corporations and<br />

business bookings. “We have focused<br />

our marketing efforts with different<br />

promotions targeting each of these<br />

avenues and we tailor tours to meet<br />

requirements,” Stockwell says.<br />

Its broker operations, carried out<br />

by <strong>Air</strong> Charter, provides medevac,<br />

cargo and helicopter bookings as well<br />

as passenger charter.<br />

Challenger inspires second purchase<br />

appreciate the aircraft’s quiet and<br />

spacious cabin and the demand<br />

is for flying mainly to <strong>European</strong><br />

destinations, with an average stage<br />

length of 1,500 miles,” says LEA md<br />

George Galanopoulos. The two<br />

Challenger 300s fill a niche in the LEA<br />

fleet between the midsize Citation<br />

Excel and large cabin Embraer<br />

Legacy 600.<br />

Gulfstreams add<br />

long haul luxury<br />

dimension to<br />

DC Aviation fleet<br />

Germany’s DC Aviation is giving<br />

special priority to the expansion of<br />

its fleet of Gulfstreams with a new<br />

G450 just delivered and more<br />

ordered for 2009. “We charter<br />

Gulfstreams to business and<br />

private customers alike,” says sales<br />

director Jonas Kraft. “Our clientele<br />

appreciates the uncompromising<br />

comfort. It is for this reason that we<br />

will be continuing to expand these<br />

fleet types.”<br />

The Stuttgart company is<br />

currently operating a total of 31 jets<br />

ranging from the Learjet to the A319<br />

CJ. The range of aircraft includes<br />

two G550s, a G450 and a G150.<br />

“The G450/G550 segment is<br />

powerful with its very spacious and<br />

luxurious cabin and an attractive<br />

cruising range for long haul flights.”<br />

Kraft says.<br />

He points out that, with a<br />

cruising range of 4,350 n.m., the<br />

G450 can carry up to 16 passengers<br />

non-stop from Berlin to Washington<br />

D.C. or from London to Dubai. “In<br />

the case of the G-550 the cruising<br />

range of 6,750 n.m. even the Paris-<br />

Beijing flight is possible non-stop –<br />

with the same equipment.”<br />

DC Aviation: focus on comfort.<br />

Kraft says the luxuriously<br />

furnished cabins are divided into<br />

three private areas and offer<br />

amenities such as a full galley<br />

for treating passengers to<br />

gourmet delicacies and numerous<br />

entertainment systems such as<br />

satellite telephone, personal<br />

monitors and CD/DVD players “so<br />

there is no risk of boredom.”<br />

The conference area and<br />

two comfortable divans are<br />

complemented by six comfortable<br />

full-size sleeping berths. In<br />

addition, Kraft says, the pilots<br />

enjoy external cameras, an<br />

enhanced vision system (EVS) and<br />

“planeview-cockpit.”<br />

However the expansion of the<br />

fleet by the former DaimlerChrysler<br />

spin-off company is not restricted to<br />

Gulfstreams, as reported in EBAN<br />

June. Kraft says: “In the next few<br />

months alone we are expecting<br />

another G550, three more A319 CJs,<br />

a Challenger 850, our seventh<br />

Legacy 600 and the fifth Learjet<br />

40/45”, says md Stefan Buschle.<br />

DC Aviation, formed by the<br />

merger of Cirrus Aviation and the<br />

former DaimlerChrysler Aviation,<br />

provides aircraft chartering,<br />

operation and maintenance of<br />

business jets. It employs over 380<br />

and operates a fleet of aircraft that<br />

has an average age of 2.44 years.


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steve.jones@gulfstream.com, or call Wolfgang Schneider, Regional Vice President, Europe, at<br />

+49 8247 34500, e-mail: wolfgang.schneider@gulfstream.com or visit www.gulfstreamG150.com.<br />

The G150 is Gulfstream’s first, true mid-size aircraft that far<br />

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8 SEPTEMBER 2008 EUROPEAN BUSINESS AIR NEWS<br />

Stars of music and sport play key role in demand-led expansion<br />

Europe’s political leaders fear<br />

recession-inspired business cutbacks<br />

but stars from the world of music and<br />

sport and vips are among those<br />

sustaining demand for expanded<br />

FBO services.<br />

The Aviación General y Ejecutiva<br />

Aerea (AEREA) FBO based in Malaga,<br />

which reports strong interest in its<br />

new business centre, recently<br />

welcomed Bon Jovi through its vip<br />

access. The facility is also used by<br />

Julio Iglesias when he travels to<br />

Málaga after concerts. “AEREA offers<br />

the vip facility to all its clients not just<br />

famous musicians,” says FBO<br />

manager Yolanda Ávalos.<br />

She adds: “We are also making the<br />

business centre’s services widely<br />

available. It will be open to both<br />

executive and general aviation users<br />

as well as entrepreneurs and local<br />

professionals.”<br />

The business centre is scheduled<br />

to open ready for the winter season<br />

and will be operated along the lines of<br />

a special event lounge with capacity<br />

for 200.<br />

The FBO also offers two vip<br />

lounges, equipped with satellite TV<br />

and wi-fi and a helicopter shuttle<br />

service between Malaga airport and<br />

clients' final destinations. “We are<br />

experiencing high demand for the<br />

new crew lounge,” Ávalos adds. “A<br />

third passenger lounge is planned in<br />

the near future and, with the new<br />

crew lounge already in operation, we<br />

will be well placed to service our<br />

clients' expanding needs. Our range<br />

of services is, in fact, constantly<br />

expanding to keep up with demand<br />

from the executive aviation sector.”<br />

A new FBO has recently begun<br />

operations in Shannon <strong>Air</strong>port<br />

Ireland. US Alliance Flight Support<br />

which began full operations this<br />

summer, reports increasing business.<br />

And, in Germany, Munich’s MES<br />

Handling, which came fourth in<br />

overall in EBAN’s 2008 FBO survey<br />

results, has been taken over by<br />

Signature Flight Support. The former<br />

MES management team, led by Oliver<br />

Trono and Klaus Besold, will be<br />

staying with Signature’s first FBO<br />

operation in Germany and its 22nd<br />

base worldwide.<br />

David Best, md Europe, Middle<br />

East and Africa, for Signature Flight<br />

Support Europe, says: “Munich is a<br />

key and growing destination for<br />

Elevated Knowledge<br />

AEREA executive David España with Bon Jovi who used the FBO's vip access. Departing and arriving passengers can go directly to and<br />

from the lounge without going through the terminal.<br />

Keflavik<br />

Shannon<br />

London Copenhagen<br />

City<br />

Pembrey<br />

Moscow<br />

Munich<br />

Malaga<br />

business aircraft operations.”<br />

The Avitat network expects to<br />

exceed its target to grow the number<br />

of <strong>European</strong> and Middle East<br />

members to 12 during 2009. “We are<br />

currently anticipating growth up to 14<br />

or 15 members,” says Joseph Fish,<br />

business development manager,<br />

Avitat and ExxonMobil. “I think it is<br />

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fair to say that business levels<br />

amongst the members is increasing<br />

as reflected by the increased volumes<br />

for Jet A-1 amongst the Avitat<br />

members. However, Avgas fuel<br />

volume sales continue to decrease as<br />

more of the Avitat customers are<br />

increasingly using jet fuel aircraft.”<br />

In the U.K. the all-weather 24-hour<br />

privately-owned Pembrey airport is<br />

gearing up for increased demand<br />

following its runway extension. “For<br />

sporting enthusiasts, the airport<br />

offers the fastest, most direct route to<br />

the adjoining Pembrey Motor Circuit,<br />

home of Welsh motor sports, and also<br />

to the nearby Jack Nicklaus golf<br />

course,” says md Capt. Winston<br />

Thomas. “It is also just only three<br />

miles from Ffos Las, the UK’s first<br />

dedicated equestrian training and<br />

sport centre, now in its initial<br />

development phase.”<br />

The 600-acre, multi-million pound<br />

amenity will include a hotel, pub,<br />

restaurant and up to 250 homes and<br />

the new National Hunt racecourse<br />

already has 16 British Horse Racing<br />

Board meetings scheduled for 2009.<br />

Pembrey’s runway extension of<br />

1,148 ft takes its total length to<br />

3,780 ft. It also offers a passenger<br />

terminal and restaurant, extensive<br />

free parking, aircraft hangars and<br />

extensive hardstanding.<br />

Southair Iceland has moved to a<br />

Germany's FAI rent-a-jet is offering customers a courtesy shuttle by chauffeur-driven<br />

Maybach at Munich and Nuernberg airports. "We always want to offer just a little bit<br />

more than the competition," says Siegfried Axtmann, ceo.<br />

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Wyndham London, Chelsea Harbour, London SW10 0XG<br />

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Oliver Trono and Klaus Besold are general<br />

managers of Signature’s Munich facility.<br />

new location at Keflavik. It has<br />

opened a new GA terminal on what is<br />

known as the ‘East Ramp.’ The<br />

company says the facility caters for all<br />

sizes of aircraft and is accessible from<br />

both the S1 and N1 taxi-ways.<br />

The company has recently been<br />

acquired from Atlanta Icelandic by<br />

the former manager of Southair<br />

David Johannsson, now the ceo of<br />

Southair Iceland.<br />

But high fuel prices continue to<br />

raise issues. Swissport International,<br />

which started applying a separate fuel<br />

surcharge of up to two per cent under<br />

its current contractual agreements as<br />

from the middle of June, summed<br />

up the realities. “Despite all the<br />

internal cost efforts and significant<br />

endeavours on all levels Swissport is<br />

obliged to make this increase in<br />

response to the continued steep rises<br />

in fuel prices.”<br />

Swissport said it was following an<br />

unfortunate but general, industry<br />

trend. “Most airlines are suffering<br />

from higher fuel prices and have<br />

passed on some of these costs to their<br />

passengers in the form of fuel<br />

surcharges added to their fares.<br />

Swissport operates thousands of<br />

vehicles and energy generating<br />

facilities all over the world and<br />

these, too, have seen their fuel costs<br />

rise by up to 50 per cent over the past<br />

few months.”<br />

The precise details of the new<br />

surcharge for the company’s<br />

products, services and tariffs that<br />

involve fuel/energy depending<br />

activities will be determined and<br />

implemented locally by Swissport’s<br />

various stations around the world.<br />

Meanwhile ExecuJet is opening<br />

a new representative office in<br />

Moscow as part of <strong>European</strong> and<br />

global expansion. “Two sales<br />

Royal Jet’s new<br />

commercial vp<br />

eyes expansion<br />

Abu Dhabi-based Royal Jet is putting<br />

a major focus on expanding its<br />

operations outside its core Middle<br />

East business base.<br />

New vp, commercial, John<br />

Morgan, says the company has<br />

restructured and expanded its sales<br />

operations. “It is now analysing<br />

revenue, pricing and yield<br />

management, and looking at the<br />

whole gamut of tactical marketing<br />

across Royal Jet’s services with an eye<br />

on spreading the company’s<br />

dominance of the private jet industry<br />

further afield.”<br />

Royal Jet, by HE Sheikh Hamdan<br />

bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, is targeting<br />

business in countries including<br />

Russia. Morgan says: “Royal Jet is<br />

enjoying a major increase in its<br />

market share in the up and coming<br />

regions of Asia, Europe and Africa<br />

and we will be working to ensure<br />

that continues.”


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EUROPEAN BUSINESS AIR NEWS<br />

Avitat puts a strong emphasis on its members meeting regularly. The photo shows (left to right): Dogan Ilter,<br />

ExxonMobil Aviation general aviation manager, Europe, Africa and the Middle East: Prajeet Parepatambil,<br />

Royal Jet (Avitat Abu Dhabi), head of vendor standards; and Caroline Pennington, ExxonMobil Aviation, sales<br />

territory manager, U.K. and the Middle East.<br />

representatives have been<br />

appointed to head up<br />

ExecuJet’s new office to<br />

support a booming market<br />

where three to four business<br />

jets are being delivered each<br />

month,” says ExecuJet Europe<br />

md Peter Hartmann.<br />

“Moscow activity will centre<br />

around sales of the spn and<br />

the Aerion SBJ.”<br />

ExecuJet manages more<br />

than 110 business jets<br />

worldwide and its managed<br />

aircraft fleet has grown over<br />

the past six months to over 55<br />

aircraft, with new arrivals<br />

being based at Copenhagen<br />

Roskilde, Berlin Schönefeld in<br />

Germany and at ExecuJet’s<br />

latest base at London City<br />

<strong>Air</strong>port where a Falcon 900<br />

has just been registered under<br />

its new U.K. AOC.<br />

At Berlin Schönefeld,<br />

ExecuJet is busy expanding its<br />

FBO facility with a new vip<br />

passenger lounge and<br />

enhanced facilities ready<br />

for completion in October.<br />

“The 24 employees will be<br />

looking after up to eight<br />

managed aircraft this year,”<br />

says Hartmann.<br />

In the Middle East Palm<br />

Aviation is setting up a<br />

handling facility at Aviation<br />

City which is part of Dubai<br />

World Central. DWC, home to<br />

the largest maintenance,<br />

repair and overhaul (MRO)<br />

Gorka Ruíz, David España and<br />

Antonia Sánchez airside in<br />

Malaga.<br />

centre in the world, has<br />

signed a deal with Palm<br />

Aviation to set up the project’s<br />

first FBO. The 80,000 square<br />

foot facility will be designed<br />

to cater to the flight support<br />

services industry in the 140<br />

square kilometre DWC urban<br />

aviation project under<br />

construction at Jebel Ali.<br />

Under the agreement,<br />

Palm Aviation will extend its<br />

existing global flight support<br />

operations centre to DWC<br />

Aviation City from its existing<br />

Dubai airport free zone office.<br />

“This is part of our expansion<br />

strategy which will see the<br />

company grow by 35 per cent<br />

annually over the next five<br />

years across the region,” says<br />

Khalid Al Mutawa, chairman.<br />

Abdullah Al Quraishi, ceo,<br />

DWC Aviation City says:<br />

“DWC will be home to the<br />

world's largest MRO<br />

providers, largely due to the<br />

strategic aviation services<br />

offerings to third parties<br />

The FlyMeNow.co.uk team (left to right) includes operations manager<br />

Rick Beasley, commercial director Andrew Whitney and sales manager<br />

Barnes Hawkins.<br />

setting up their regional<br />

operations within our<br />

projects. The aviation sector<br />

is expected to grow at more<br />

than 30 per cent annually for<br />

the coming five years and the<br />

impressive growth of over<br />

nine per cent for the<br />

Middle East MRO market is<br />

expected to continue over the<br />

same period.”<br />

Abu Dhabi’s Royal Jet has<br />

welcomed Abu Dhabi<br />

<strong>Air</strong>ports Company’s (ADAC)<br />

plan to set up the Middle<br />

East’s first dedicated<br />

executive airport. ADAC<br />

is to invest US $54.4 million in<br />

transforming the Al Bateen<br />

military base into an exclusive<br />

corporate jet facility.<br />

Shane O’Hare, president<br />

and ceo, Royal Jet, says: “Al<br />

Bateen’s location just 10<br />

kilometres from the capital’s<br />

diplomatic and business<br />

centres will be a compelling<br />

advantage for our strong<br />

corporate client base and<br />

we are now working with<br />

the relevant authorities to<br />

assess our operational<br />

requirements for Al Bateen.”<br />

Sahlee Fajutagana says<br />

United Aviation Services<br />

(UAS), headquartered in<br />

Dubai, is enjoying rapid<br />

expansion, accelerated by<br />

the success of its new<br />

headquarters complex in the<br />

Dubai airport free zone.<br />

U.K. ‘relies<br />

on aircraft<br />

from Europe’<br />

U.K. broker FlyMeNow.co.uk,<br />

planning international<br />

expansion to reflect growth in<br />

sectors including concert tours<br />

and medical repatriation, is<br />

reporting a requirement in<br />

the U.K. for a number of<br />

new or nearly new aircraft<br />

catering for around half-adozen<br />

passengers.<br />

“We have sought these,<br />

including the CJ1, CJ2+ and<br />

Learjet 40XR from <strong>European</strong><br />

operators and have had<br />

tremendous feedback from<br />

clientele no longer happy to<br />

accept older aircraft,” says<br />

Andrew Whitney, commercial<br />

director, says. The company,<br />

which plans to open a new<br />

office abroad by the first<br />

quarter of 2009, is currently<br />

recruiting experienced air<br />

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10 SEPTEMBER 2008 EUROPEAN BUSINESS AIR NEWS<br />

Relentless rescue work promised by<br />

Grob ceo after insolvency<br />

Continued from page 1<br />

organised the delivery of two aircraft in<br />

mid-2009; Prestige Jet of Abu Dhabi,<br />

which lined up two spns for the end of<br />

this year; and ZAS Z-Aviation which<br />

wanted two aircraft in 2009. But Grob<br />

says: “Customers with a bank<br />

guarantee will get the full deposit<br />

refund should it come to it.”<br />

The spn must overcome financial<br />

problems. Photo: Anthony Quayle.<br />

Olver maintains the position of ceo<br />

of both ExecuJet Aviation Group and<br />

that of Grob Aerospace. He says:<br />

“Whilst ExecuJet enjoys a close<br />

working association with Grob<br />

Aerospace, the two companies are<br />

totally separate, and thus the<br />

insolvency of Grob Aerospace has no<br />

direct bearing on ExecuJet. But it is<br />

important that the business aviation<br />

industry and our customers and<br />

suppliers remain assured in the<br />

knowledge that this unfortunate<br />

situation has no affect on the ongoing<br />

viability of the ExecuJet Aviation<br />

Group, and on that of the company’s<br />

global aircraft sales and services<br />

business units.”<br />

He adds: “Whilst ExecuJet<br />

anticipates that spn sales and support<br />

will materially contribute to the<br />

company’s long term business<br />

performance, even before considering<br />

the contribution of the spn,<br />

the group can confidently forecast<br />

a profitable future for ExecuJet<br />

as a global business aviation force, and<br />

the sales representation relationship in<br />

33 countries. “The ExecuJet Aviation<br />

Group is, and remains the exclusive<br />

sales distributor of Grob Aerospace’s<br />

spn light jet, and furthermore shall<br />

support the aircraft in many regions of<br />

the world. The spn remains an<br />

extremely promising product in<br />

ExecuJet’s portfolio, as borne out by<br />

the significant customer demand,<br />

enjoyed to date. ExecuJet shall do all in<br />

its legitimate power to support both<br />

Grob Aerospace, and our mutual<br />

customers, over this trying time.”<br />

The spn program suffered in<br />

November 2006 when one of its two<br />

flying prototypes was destroyed during<br />

a demonstration flight crash near the<br />

company factory in Tussenhausen-<br />

Mattsies, Germany, and the then chief<br />

spn test pilot Gerard Guillaumaud<br />

died. Grob says that the effects of the<br />

latest spn program delays became<br />

apparent only recently. “The staff in<br />

Mattsies were informed promptly by<br />

Niall Olver and the German mds. We<br />

hope that this situation will be<br />

resolved within the next few weeks<br />

since Mr. Olver already has received<br />

some interest from possible investors.”<br />

Olver says: “This unfortunate<br />

situation has arisen as a consequence<br />

of recent delays in the spn<br />

program, resulting in the increased<br />

requirement for cash to see the<br />

program through to certification.<br />

Under the circumstances, our current<br />

loan provider has elected to<br />

discontinue their support.<br />

“In order to resolve the situation all<br />

possible alternatives are being<br />

evaluated. Given the significant<br />

support we have enjoyed to date, I<br />

remain confident that this disruption<br />

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Rizon Jet is ready for expansion. Pictured from left to right are: Capt. William Curtis ceo; Capt. Noor Qureshi; Joanne McDine, director<br />

of cabin services; Capt. Shawn Sims; and Capt. Gregoire Marchand, group director of operations.<br />

Rizon Jet plans Gulf-wide coverage to<br />

complement charter operations<br />

Rizon Jet is setting up aircraft<br />

maintenance facilities in a number of<br />

locations in the Gulf region and will<br />

offer a full aircraft management<br />

and maintenance service to<br />

complement its core fleet. “We see<br />

aircraft maintenance as a growth<br />

market in the Gulf as there are<br />

insufficient existing facilities,” says ceo<br />

William Curtis. “Many Gulf operators<br />

take their aircraft to Europe for<br />

maintenance inputs.”<br />

This will complement its new<br />

Biggin Hill development which will<br />

feature a 13,000 sq. m. maintenance<br />

hangar and FBO facility. (See story on<br />

page 1). “We expect the facility to be<br />

fully operational by September 2009<br />

and will begin recruiting and training<br />

staff late this year” says Curtis. “We aim<br />

to offer full EASA 145 maintenance<br />

facilities along with aircraft<br />

management packages and charter<br />

services pursuant to a U.K. AOC. We<br />

will also offer a ‘high end’ FBO service.<br />

We see the need for a service which will<br />

meet the expectations of clients from<br />

Saudi Arabia and the Gulf region who<br />

expect associated services such as<br />

helicopter links, prestige car rental and<br />

limousine services of the highest order.<br />

We aim to provide all these services in<br />

house. We expect to develop a London<br />

client base quickly as many<br />

mainstream charter brokers are<br />

already flying their clients with us in<br />

the Gulf region and the UK business jet<br />

fleet is continuing to expand.”<br />

Rizon also intends to add<br />

An artist's impression of the Biggin Hill<br />

development.<br />

an aircraft catering facility. “Halal<br />

compliant catering will be offered<br />

as standard,” he says.<br />

The company began operations<br />

in April 2007 and says it has<br />

increased sales to in excess of $10<br />

million annually. Curtis says: “Sales<br />

are growing month on month and<br />

we expect them to top $50 million<br />

in 2009.”<br />

The expansion follows new<br />

ownership. In December 2007 the<br />

company was wholly acquired by<br />

Qatari national, Ghanim Bin Saad<br />

Al Saad who is also chairman of<br />

the Barwa International property<br />

development firm and of Qatari<br />

DIYAR, the property investment arm<br />

of the Qatari Investment Group.<br />

Curtis says: “We try for new aircraft<br />

wherever possible. However all the<br />

desirable models are back-ordered so<br />

we have to supplement in the short<br />

term with used aircraft and there is not<br />

much that represents good value right<br />

now. A five-year-old Challenger 604<br />

will often sell for more than its new<br />

cost – not a good investment for us in<br />

the long run. It is, we believe,<br />

preferable to pay a premium for a new<br />

aircraft given that one normally carries<br />

the substantial cost of the deposit<br />

schedule anyway and in purchasing<br />

a new aircraft one at least has the<br />

benefit of the warranties and the first<br />

five years of subsidised support<br />

programmes plus the customer appeal<br />

of a new airframe and the latest<br />

interior amenities.”<br />

Rizon Jet has two Premier 1As and a<br />

Hawker 900XP already in service. A<br />

second Hawker 900XP is scheduled for<br />

delivery in the second quarter of 2009.<br />

Two Challenger 605s are expected in<br />

the first and last quarter of 2009 and a<br />

G-5000 follows in the last quarter of<br />

2010. “We are acquiring two further<br />

Challenger 604/5s late this year.” says<br />

Curtis, “and we are about to order or<br />

acquire further aircraft for the U.K.<br />

although we are still evaluating our<br />

options in this regard. Rizon Jet also<br />

offers broking services to our clients<br />

where our own fleet is unavailable or<br />

unsuitable for their mission.”<br />

Curtis says the start-up Premier 1A,<br />

although a surprisingly good aircraft,<br />

has a too limited size and payload<br />

range for Rizon’s remit and will be<br />

phased out. “We have chosen Hawker<br />

900XP and Challenger 605 for their<br />

reliability. We fly into Africa, India,<br />

Asia, China and the former USSR<br />

where support is sparse. These newer<br />

designs, have the benefit of being good<br />

in terms of dispatch reliability and ‘get<br />

you home performance.”


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EUROPEAN BUSINESS AIR NEWS<br />

The Private Jet Company is building a<br />

sizeable managed fleet and putting the<br />

finishing touches to the design of a<br />

new FBO on the Isle of Man.<br />

Tony Corlett, MD, says: “Our rapid<br />

growth means that we have outgrown<br />

our current business and hangarage<br />

premises and therefore we are<br />

planning to build a new state of the art<br />

private aviation facility. This will<br />

provide our clients with a first-class<br />

facility that is currently not available<br />

on the Isle of Man.”<br />

The Private Jet Company, formed to<br />

accommodate customer requests for<br />

turnkey aircraft management, has<br />

several new aircraft on order for clients<br />

which will be managed for the clients<br />

by the company.<br />

Corlett says: “We delivered a new<br />

CJ3 for a <strong>European</strong> client in April and<br />

recently acquired a Citation XLS 560<br />

for a local client. In addition we are<br />

taking delivery of a Citation Sovereign<br />

in February 2009, and we are also<br />

The Private Jet Company registered the first two aircraft on the IoM M-Register’.<br />

purchasing a Challenger 300 for a<br />

<strong>European</strong> client. We will also be<br />

managing that Challenger 300<br />

remotely for our <strong>European</strong> client.”<br />

The company anticipates operating<br />

a fleet of up to seven managed aircraft<br />

within two years.<br />

On average the aircraft fly<br />

approximately 400 hours per year, with<br />

each client using approximately 200<br />

hours per year. Owners, Corlett says,<br />

use their aircraft for both business<br />

and pleasure.<br />

Driving factors in the choice of<br />

aircraft include a comfortable cabin, a<br />

good range and high performance.<br />

“We now have trained engineers based<br />

on the island so maintenance is not<br />

such an issue,” Corlett adds. “We<br />

intend to increase the quality of our<br />

ground based services for handling our<br />

clientele and are currently finalising<br />

plans for a new private aviation facility<br />

that will commence development later<br />

this year. The company is organised so<br />

that they just tell our operations what<br />

time they would like to depart and to<br />

where, everything else is looked after<br />

under our management agreement.”<br />

There will be job vacancies<br />

available from early next year to<br />

accommodate the increase in<br />

managed aircraft, including an XLS<br />

pilot and Sovereign pilot, both based in<br />

the Isle of Man and a Challenger 300<br />

pilot based in Europe.<br />

Capt. Corlett has British, American<br />

SEPTEMBER 2008 11<br />

Private Jet Company takes Isle of Man to new business aviation heights<br />

Bond adds<br />

three EC225s to<br />

North Sea fleet<br />

Bond Offshore Helicopters is<br />

introducing three latest technology<br />

EC225s to its fleet. Bill Munro, md,<br />

says: “With their enhanced<br />

specification, range and operational<br />

efficiency, the EC225s are particularly<br />

suited to long range flights servicing<br />

BP’s activities east and west of<br />

Shetland. The capability to fly direct<br />

from Aberdeen, with no need to refuel<br />

en route, avoids potential delays if, for<br />

example, Shetland is fog-bound.”<br />

The new aircraft will bring Bond<br />

Offshore Helicopters fleet of Super<br />

Pumas to ten. The three EC225s are on<br />

crew change contracts, as are five<br />

Super Puma AS332L Mark IIs, with two<br />

specially-modified AS332L Mark IIs<br />

dedicated to air-sea rescue.<br />

With a fleet increasing to ten, Bond<br />

Offshore Helicopters’ aircraft include<br />

Super Puma AS332L Mark IIs and the<br />

latest additions, three EC225s.<br />

Munro says the acquisition of the<br />

EC225s is part of a continuing<br />

investment programme in support<br />

of new contracts worth almost<br />

£240 million which also includes staff<br />

and facilities.<br />

The contracts include two new<br />

clients, ConocoPhillips (U.K.) and<br />

Maersk Contractors U.K., and an<br />

amendment to an existing contract<br />

with BP Exploration.<br />

From earlier this month, Bond is<br />

operating two of the new EC225<br />

aircraft on crew change flights for BP in<br />

the North Sea and west of Shetland.<br />

Bond will operate a third EC225<br />

under a five-year contract with<br />

ConocoPhillips for services in the<br />

central North Sea. Two Super Puma<br />

AS332L Mark IIs, released from<br />

contract with BP, will be used in<br />

support of various clients, including<br />

Maersk Contractors U.K., on behalf of<br />

North Sea Production Company, for<br />

which Bond began operating in June<br />

under a five-year contract servicing the<br />

McCulloch Field.<br />

Munro says: “The addition of new<br />

clients reinforces the current<br />

expansion of our fleet, staff and base<br />

facilities as part of our strategy<br />

to expand operations in the U.K.<br />

and overseas.”<br />

and <strong>European</strong> <strong>Air</strong>line transport<br />

licences and also holds Bermudian and<br />

Isle of Man certificates of validation.<br />

But he was born on the Isle of Man and<br />

was active in helping form the Isle of<br />

Man register. “There are now over 70<br />

aircraft on the M-registration. Overall it<br />

has been a huge success, and it will<br />

continue to grow.”<br />

When the register’s doors opened<br />

for business on 1 May 2007, the Private<br />

Jet Company registered two jets and<br />

Corlett completed the first flight in a<br />

Manx registered aircraft.<br />

The company’s core business<br />

includes aircraft sales and purchase,<br />

worldwide aircraft delivery and<br />

ferry flights, de-registration and<br />

registration, aircraft management,<br />

operations and crewing, hangarage,<br />

aircraft handling, technical<br />

documentation and maintenance.<br />

The Isle of Man airport has separate<br />

plans for an executive jet facility (EBAN<br />

October 2007).


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RUSSIA<br />

REGIONAL<br />

REVIEW<br />

Despite hefty price rises in the cost of<br />

fuel and a sales tax of almost 40 per<br />

cent, business aviation in Russia<br />

continues to grow, with operators<br />

acquiring more aircraft and<br />

expanding their business to improve<br />

FBO and maintenance facilities<br />

there. For some time, many<br />

operators have wanted to see<br />

facilities in Russia equipped more<br />

like those of their <strong>European</strong><br />

counterparts and in some areas this<br />

is beginning to happen. The Vologda<br />

region is one key area that is<br />

experiencing increasing demand for<br />

charter. The economy and transport<br />

system has been intensively<br />

developed and both private charter<br />

and scheduled business are growing.<br />

Most charter operators are based<br />

in and around Moscow. Popular<br />

destinations within Russia include<br />

St Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod<br />

and Samara.<br />

Although Russian aircraft remain<br />

popular, there are very few new<br />

Russian-made aircraft appearing on<br />

the market. Many operators are<br />

opting for western-built aircraft either<br />

in response to their clients’ requests<br />

or to meet <strong>European</strong> regulations<br />

governing noise levels, which has<br />

prevented many operators using<br />

Russian aircraft from entering Europe.<br />

Sergey Guekov is director general<br />

of Aeroflot Plus, an associated<br />

company of Aeroflot, the Russian<br />

airline. Formerly a broker, the charter<br />

company now operates three Tupolev<br />

Tu-134 aircraft, one seats 6-8<br />

passengers while the other two are<br />

also specially-tailored for the VIP<br />

market. Although Guekov explains<br />

that Aeroflot does not perform<br />

regular flights to the same<br />

destination, all of its operations<br />

remain within Russian boundaries.<br />

The company's missions include<br />

weddings and corporate flights, often<br />

for bankers and large corporations.<br />

According to Guekov, the company<br />

is planning to buy two or three<br />

western-built aircraft in the near<br />

future, the most likely choice being<br />

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“In Russia, a lot of passengers want<br />

to use foreign aircraft. We studied the<br />

market and found that the most<br />

sophisticated aircraft to suit our<br />

needs is the Legacy. There are no<br />

new VIP aircraft being built in Russia<br />

and we want to accommodate<br />

more passengers.<br />

“Right now we are also planning to<br />

start our own engineering department<br />

to work on our Tupolev aircraft.<br />

Although I can’t say when it will<br />

be in operation, with the help of a<br />

very experienced chief engineer on<br />

our team we plan to expand the<br />

business to develop our own<br />

maintenance facility.”<br />

Last month, Aeroflot Plus<br />

performed about 30 flights, according<br />

to Guekov. Although there is a lot of<br />

competition from other business<br />

aviation firms, the biggest problem<br />

at the moment is the relatively high<br />

price of fuel.<br />

And as for the future of the<br />

business?<br />

“It’s hard to say if business is<br />

improving as we were formerly a<br />

broker, which was a different kind of<br />

business,” he says.<br />

Russia has, for some time, provided<br />

a lot of business for charter operators<br />

in Europe and this shows no sign of<br />

abating. <strong>European</strong> charter firms have<br />

been targeting the massive potential<br />

there for a number of years, carefully<br />

navigating logistical and operational<br />

problems as they develop business.<br />

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Russia is encouraging owners to base<br />

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ExecuJet is expanding services in the air and on the ground.<br />

Pro<strong>Air</strong> recently opened a<br />

representative office in Moscow.<br />

Managing director Elmar Monreal<br />

says: “We have placed a Learjet 45 and<br />

a 31A on our German AOC. Flights to<br />

Russia will be included on that.”<br />

Cessna’s Tom Perry, regional sales<br />

manager for the UK, Ireland,<br />

Scandinavia and the former Soviet<br />

Union, says: “We view Russia as an<br />

important market for the future.<br />

The progressive spread of wealth<br />

throughout the economy and the<br />

rise of more Russian businesses<br />

will generate greater demand for midsize<br />

jets.”<br />

As Russia’s economy has improved<br />

over the past decade, so the number of<br />

potential charter clients has<br />

increased. Russia now boasts some of<br />

the richest individuals in the world –<br />

good news for charter businesses<br />

hoping to attract top-notch clients. It<br />

has not always been so however.<br />

Following the break-up of the Soviet<br />

Union in the early 1990s, Russia’s<br />

economy went into decline. People<br />

on fixed incomes faced a sharp<br />

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Almost a decade later, the economy<br />

began to recover and since 2000,<br />

soaring oil and gas revenues have<br />

boosted state coffers and helped<br />

Russia pay off its debts. Russia has the<br />

largest known natural gas reserves in<br />

the world and is the world’s second<br />

largest oil producer after Saudi Arabia.<br />

In 2005, oil and gas accounted for<br />

about 60 per cent of Russia’s exports.<br />

Europe depends on Russia for much<br />

of its energy and almost all existing<br />

pipelines head west. In much the<br />

same way, Europe depends on Russia<br />

for a significant percentage of its<br />

charter business. There is still<br />

currently more demand for flights<br />

from Europe into Russia than the<br />

other way round. Many charter firms<br />

manage aircraft or base aircraft on<br />

<strong>European</strong> soil on their clients’ behalf.<br />

Various factors, including the high<br />

import tax cost of registering aircraft<br />

within Russia, mean that many<br />

Russian owners prefer to purchase<br />

their aircraft outside of the country<br />

and place them with Western<br />

operators. But this is slowly starting to<br />

change, as more business aviation<br />

companies set up premises in Russia.<br />

ExecuJet and Avolus are among the<br />

organisations expanding their<br />

presence in Moscow.<br />

Peter Hartmann, ExecuJet Europe<br />

md, says his company is increasing<br />

the four-strong staff in the city and<br />

will be deploying more aircraft to<br />

meet demand.<br />

“We operate a range of aircraft<br />

from light jets, to midsize and heavy<br />

jets out of Moscow,” he adds.<br />

“Demand is high and increasing<br />

and we make sure our customers are<br />

able to get the aircraft for their<br />

individual needs.”<br />

Hartmann says enquiries, for both<br />

charter and aircraft management, are<br />

coming from international companies<br />

as well as private customers.<br />

The opening of an office in<br />

Moscow, he says, “underlines our<br />

dedication to an already long lasting<br />

and strong relationship with Russia’s<br />

business aviation world – a rapidly<br />

growing market which we feel<br />

deserves a permanent presence.”<br />

Separately Avolus, and Russia’s<br />

Planet Aviation Group have entered<br />

into a strategic relationship that they<br />

say will “bring together the two brands<br />

and their complementary offerings<br />

across the private aviation spectrum.”<br />

The Avolus Group has offices in<br />

London, Moscow, Dubai and Monaco<br />

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Dexter has ordered ten PC-12s for air taxi flights to southern Russian cities.<br />

yachts and limousines. Planet<br />

Aviation Group offers charter flights,<br />

aircraft management, sales and<br />

acquisitions and legal and technical<br />

consulting services in Russia and the<br />

former CIS states.<br />

Planet Aviation Group founder<br />

and md Sergey Morozov says: “We<br />

are already working on some<br />

exciting prospects to develop our<br />

mutual businesses.”<br />

In Russia itself, there remains<br />

much room for improvement. There is<br />

pressing demand in Russia for<br />

consistent improvement and<br />

development of business aviation<br />

infrastructure at airports. Analysts say<br />

that one of the obstacles faced by<br />

companies operating air services on a<br />

regional basis in Russia is that the<br />

government pays much more<br />

attention to the very large aircraft<br />

enterprises, while regional aviation<br />

programmes are regarded as being of<br />

secondary importance.<br />

According to Hartmann, lots of<br />

people from the aviation industry are<br />

trying to start up maintenance<br />

facilities for western aircraft however<br />

“so they don’t have to travel all over the<br />

place to have their aircraft worked on.”<br />

Nevertheless, over the past ten years<br />

or so, things have become much<br />

better organised than they used to be.<br />

“It used to be really troublesome to<br />

get into the country and then go<br />

through customs and passport<br />

control, but that has improved greatly.<br />

There has been a definite<br />

improvement as they have adapted to<br />

<strong>European</strong> business aviation,” he says.<br />

Charter operator Avcom agrees<br />

that improvements are being made.<br />

“The infrastructure of the Russian<br />

aviation industry is improving slowly<br />

step by step but for executive aviation<br />

it is still not sufficient. If you have<br />

technical problems with a foreign<br />

aircraft on Russian territory you have a<br />

lot of headaches with getting spare<br />

parts and maintenance. Most of the<br />

western-made aircraft still have to<br />

have their maintenance checks done<br />

outside of Russia.”<br />

Situated at all three of Moscow’s<br />

airports, Vnukovo, Domodedovo and<br />

Sheremetyevo, Avcom’s fleet includes<br />

two Tu-134s and three Yak-40<br />

aircraft, the third of which it acquired<br />

in April 2007.<br />

JFK<br />

Anna Barishevskaya ExecuJet office<br />

manager in Moscow reports a rising tide<br />

of business.<br />

There are ambitious plans afoot to<br />

develop Vnukovo airport, where many<br />

business aviation companies are<br />

based. Future improvements include<br />

further apron enlargement, increased<br />

parking, and development of hangars,<br />

a heliport and new passenger<br />

facilities. An MRO facility to support<br />

western business jets is under<br />

construction following an agreement<br />

between Vnukovo <strong>Air</strong>port and<br />

Lufthansa Technik.<br />

As well as a VIP hall, which is<br />

used by many political leaders<br />

including the Russian President and<br />

other VIPs visiting the country. This<br />

massive development programme<br />

commenced at the airport in 2003 and<br />

is expected to last until 2015.<br />

Dexter <strong>Air</strong> Taxi is based at Vnukovo<br />

airport. Formed by <strong>Air</strong> Management<br />

Group four years ago, it received its<br />

AOC in 2005 and its first aircraft one<br />

year later. Its first shuttle services<br />

between Moscow, Nixhny Novgorod<br />

and Samara began that year and since<br />

then, the company has gone from<br />

strength to strength. Last October, it<br />

celebrated the expected delivery of ten<br />

PC-12s, which will be used to provide<br />

air taxi flights to southern Russian<br />

cities, including Rostov to Sochi,<br />

Maikop, Volgograd and Astrakhan.<br />

Also based there is aircraft operator<br />

Meridian <strong>Air</strong>. Its fleet includes two<br />

Tupolev Tu-134s, which fly across<br />

Russia and to some parts of Europe.<br />

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Commercial department manager<br />

Oleg Loginov told EBAN: “Our clients<br />

are mainly businessmen, although we<br />

also transport some passengers on<br />

holiday. We do not have any popular<br />

destinations, but some of our clients fly<br />

regularly to the same place. It would be<br />

safe to say that the most frequent<br />

destinations are within Russia.”<br />

Loginov said he would welcome<br />

improvements to the FBOs in Russia.<br />

“That would be good,” he says,”I would<br />

like to see more facilities in Russia run<br />

more like <strong>European</strong> FBOs. I think that<br />

would be very good for the Russian<br />

aviation industry.”<br />

As well as fuel price hikes, one of the<br />

biggest problems for Russian charter<br />

operators is that they cannot fly into<br />

Europe. He explains: “The Tupolevs are<br />

much bigger aircraft than the<br />

Gulfstream IV for example and Russian<br />

customers love to travel on such big<br />

aircraft for their internal flights. None<br />

of the smaller aircraft, such as Learjets<br />

or Gulfstreams, can offer the same level<br />

of comfort as the Tupolevs.”<br />

Baltic <strong>Air</strong>lines operates helicopters<br />

out of one of Russia’s most famous<br />

cities, St Petersburg, where it performs<br />

a range of services from tourism flights<br />

and air ambulance missions to aerial<br />

works, photography and filming.<br />

Founded in 1993, the company has five<br />

Mi-8 helicopters. It has realised over<br />

100 building and assembly jobs in<br />

Russia including the installation of a<br />

cross on Kazansky Cathedral in St<br />

Petersburg and salvage operations on<br />

the wreck of the “Estonia” ferry in 1994.<br />

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It also details business aviation<br />

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Gulfstream I passes<br />

fifty years<br />

In August the Gulfstream marked<br />

the fiftieth anniversary of the first<br />

flight of the venerable twin<br />

turboprop Gulfstream I. Around a<br />

third of the 200 built are still in<br />

service, in countries including<br />

France and Turkey.<br />

Annual growth in jet fleet<br />

tops 20 per cent<br />

The August 2008 edition of<br />

<strong>European</strong> <strong>Business</strong> <strong>Air</strong> <strong>News</strong> was<br />

distributed to owners and operators<br />

of 11,765 business aircraft in Europe<br />

and the Middle East, a fleet eight per<br />

cent larger than one year ago. The<br />

largest increase is in business jets,<br />

by 20 per cent to 2,468, while the<br />

turbine helicopter fleet has<br />

exceeded 5,000 for the first time,<br />

having increased by 11.5 per cent.<br />

Blackhawk boosts<br />

Beech 200s<br />

Blackhawk Modifications has<br />

gained EASA approval for the<br />

upgrade of Pratt & Whitney PT6A-<br />

41 or 42 engines to PT6A-61 for the<br />

Super King <strong>Air</strong> 200 and B200 series.<br />

MCA Aviation (U.K.), Beechcraft<br />

Vertrieb und Service (Germany)<br />

and Ruag Aerospace (Switzerland)<br />

are the <strong>European</strong> distributors.<br />

EASA approves EVS down<br />

to 100ft<br />

EASA has approved all Gulfstream<br />

aircraft equipped with the<br />

Gulfstream Enhanced Vision System<br />

(EVS) to obtain operational credit<br />

for continuing approaches to 100<br />

feet. EU-OPS rule 1.430(h) requires<br />

pilots using instrument approach<br />

procedures be able to visually see<br />

the approach lights and runway<br />

environment from a predetermined<br />

distance in order to proceed with<br />

landing the aircraft. With EVS, that<br />

distance has been reduced to 100<br />

feet, because the pilot can use the<br />

visual cues EVS supplies. U.S.<br />

operators flying in and out of<br />

Europe can take immediate<br />

advantage of the EASA approval.<br />

<strong>European</strong>-based operators must still<br />

obtain operational approval from<br />

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the authority or agency that is<br />

legally responsible for operational<br />

approvals in the country where each<br />

aircraft is registered.<br />

Additionally, Gulfstream has<br />

received validation from EASA to<br />

install the upgraded version of its<br />

Enhanced Vision System (EVS II) on<br />

any of its four in-production largecabin<br />

aircraft models.<br />

Piper delivers more pistons<br />

Piper piston-engine aircraft<br />

deliveries, including the six-seat<br />

Matrix, have risen by 18 per cent in<br />

the first half of 2008. Deliveries<br />

overall are up 13 per cent over the<br />

same period last year and the<br />

company expects to deliver 53<br />

turboprop Meridians during<br />

this year.<br />

BBJ3 receives<br />

finishing touches<br />

Boeing has completed work on the<br />

first BBJ3. The aircraft is now at<br />

DeCrane <strong>Air</strong>craft in Georgetown,<br />

where it will receive its long-range<br />

auxiliary fuel system and a Headup<br />

Display. Delivery to the<br />

customer will be in 2009.<br />

Eclipse faces FAA review<br />

Following two incidents on landing,<br />

the Eclipse 500 very light jet is to be<br />

subject of a special certification<br />

review by the FAA. The company has<br />

welcomed the move, pointing out<br />

that the model is the most tested<br />

FAR Part 23 aircraft in decades. Six<br />

test aircraft have completed 5,000<br />

hours of flying.<br />

Columbus passes through<br />

the tunnel<br />

Cessna has completed a series of<br />

wind tunnel tests on its largest<br />

business jet design, the Columbus.<br />

First deliveries of the 4,000nm<br />

range, 10-place aircraft are on<br />

course for 2014.<br />

First production CJ4 flies<br />

Following the first flight of a<br />

prototype in May, the first<br />

production model CJ4 took to the<br />

air on August 19th. First deliveries<br />

will be in the first half of 2010.


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Bavarian police begins upgrade<br />

to specially-equipped EC135 P2is<br />

The Bavarian police helicopter<br />

squadron is acquiring eight EC135<br />

P2is scheduled for delivery between<br />

September 2009 and April 2010.<br />

“In view of the evergrowing<br />

demands on police work,”<br />

says interior minister Joachim<br />

Herrmann, “we are making this new<br />

purchase to provide our police<br />

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machines including customized<br />

police equipment.<br />

In the 1970s, police helicopters<br />

were used only for traffic<br />

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director Paul Forster described as a<br />

“very long, laborious and painful reregistration.”<br />

The company first spotted the<br />

potential addition in Greece 12<br />

months ago. “We were over there<br />

on a trip and noticed a charter<br />

company had started to cannibalise<br />

two aircraft to keep one of their fleet<br />

flying. We then put a silly bid in for<br />

both machines and they took us up<br />

on it,” he said.<br />

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documentation. In fact we eventually<br />

thought it wouldn’t happen, but then<br />

miraculously it came through,”<br />

explained Forster.<br />

The Bell will mainly be used for<br />

flight training and charter. “It just<br />

came on the fleet 10 days ago, so it’s<br />

only done some self-fly hire with<br />

some of the members down here but<br />

they’ve all reacted positively to it,” One of Europe’s largest real estate us to start selling and delivering marketplace. We’re delivering two<br />

said Forster.<br />

developers has placed an order airplanes in Europe. We’re also airplanes into Europe this year which TAG Aviation used this year’s EBACE<br />

The company didn’t start to with Embraer for a Legacy aircraft. delivering our first airplane into may not seem like much but for us, to showcase its new handling and<br />

promote the aircraft until the paper Spain’s Fadesa made the announce- Europe next month and although it’s a beginning and we think it's going office facilities at Geneva <strong>Air</strong>port.<br />

work was completed, so now was the ment at this year’s EBACE, adding we’re unable to disclose the to grow substantially.<br />

The FBO moved just ten metres from<br />

time to start: “It’s a nice machine – that the aircraft would replace the customer’s name, the operator will be “At the current time, the US is still its old premises, which was<br />

there’s a brand new interior and it’s company’s existing Hawker 700 in GV Executive of Zurich.”<br />

the largest market, followed by South considered too small to handle the<br />

been completely resprayed.<br />

September of this year.<br />

America, where we’ve had some increase in traffic passing through.<br />

“It charters at £480 per hour and The Legacy will be based in La<br />

sales in Brazil.”<br />

The company moved into the 300-<br />

fills the niche for those wanting to go Coruña, where the company has its<br />

An extra incentive for operators metres-squared handling facility and<br />

down to the races (Ascot, Epson), the headquarters, and will carry out<br />

in Europe to buy Legacy aircraft is 1,500-metres-squared <strong>European</strong><br />

Grand Prix and an advantage of corporate missions to Spain,<br />

the announcement of the Total administrative headquarters in April,<br />

having floats is that it can also go to Portugal, Romania and Morocco,<br />

Legacy Care (TLC) maintenance a month after completion.<br />

Battersea,” he added.<br />

where Fadesa is currently active.<br />

programme. The programme covers Handling supervisor John<br />

This is Sloane’s only Bell 206B and “We were looking for a larger<br />

scheduled and unscheduled airframe Christian said: “We moved because<br />

complements its range of Agusta aircraft,” said Jose Luis Macia, Fadesa<br />

maintenance during the five-year it’s important to have brand new<br />

109s. “After this I’d like to put a Twin financial director. “Our main criteria<br />

period after the delivery of a facilities in Geneva. Privat<strong>Air</strong> and Jet<br />

Squirrel on the fleet (which I know I were reliability, cabin volume and<br />

customer’s aircraft.<br />

Aviation were also going to move<br />

could find some good business for) value. The Legacy very quickly<br />

When selecting the TLC program, here, so it was important to be in this<br />

and also an EC-120,” said Forster. became the best, that is to say the<br />

the customer or operator of a Legacy business centre.” The facilities<br />

only choice.”<br />

pays a fixed hourly rate for the include a quick departure lounge and<br />

Speaking to EBAN's Richard Evans<br />

airframe maintenance based on the a larger private lounge with DVD,<br />

at the show, Embraer vice chairman Embraer is now waiting for JAA hours flown and operational refrigerator, coffee machines and<br />

Sam Hill said: “Most of Fadesa's certification, which Hill says he parameters. Said a spokesman: “This internet access. Along with this is<br />

missions will fall in the category of expects next month. While the Fadesa covers virtually all the airframe line, another spacious lounge with the<br />

2,000nm or under although they will order brings the total order book for base and heavy maintenance same equipment, which can<br />

occasionally need to fly 3,000nm. the Legacy to 74 firm orders and 94 operations leaving the customer free accommodate a group of twenty. The<br />

They’ve already got several trips options, we asked Hill about the to concentrate on the best utilisation crew lounge has a direct view of the<br />

planned to the US.<br />

Legacy’s popularity specifically in of his Legacy.”<br />

passengers arrival in order to<br />

“We’re delighted with the order Europe. He said: “We’ve just started TLC is based on a minimum of 400 maximise time efficiency. “We are<br />

and see it as a real breakthrough for making inroads into the <strong>European</strong><br />

An EBACE press conference provides the setting for Signature Flight Support to join forces with the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in establishing a handling facility at<br />

Toulon-Hyeres <strong>Air</strong>port. (L-r) Jonathan Soper (Signature), Bernard Lecat, Bernard Stouff (both CCI), Louis Demarque and Peter Whitehead (both Signature). Full story, page 14.<br />

Spanish developer ready to<br />

deploy Europe’s second Legacy<br />

JAA certification is expected imminently<br />

for Embraer’s Legacy.<br />

www.ebanmagazine.com<br />

Continued on page 16<br />

EUROPEAN<br />

ISSUE 108 SEPTEMBER 2001<br />

Adamantis has purchased a Falcon<br />

900, which is currently managed<br />

by charter and sales broker<br />

<strong>Air</strong> Entreprise.<br />

Vice president Arnaud Poisson<br />

said: “The owner chose the 900<br />

because he wanted a long range<br />

aircraft with a large cabin. We were<br />

also keen to have such an aircraft<br />

available in our charter fleet, as many<br />

of our customers were asking to<br />

charter a long range aircraft.”<br />

So far the Falcon’s destinations<br />

have included Africa, the West Indies<br />

and the US.<br />

<strong>Air</strong> Entreprise also manages a<br />

Falcon 50 and owns a twin jet<br />

Aerospatiale Corvette. Poisson<br />

added: “The Falcon 900 is very good<br />

for our image. We have a mixture of<br />

private individuals, company<br />

presidents and show business stars,<br />

so obviously such an aircraft will<br />

attract a great deal of interest.” The<br />

aircraft is an addition to the<br />

existing fleet.<br />

<strong>Air</strong> Entreprise has a large<br />

hangar and a private terminal at<br />

its Le Bourget, Paris base,<br />

combined with handling and<br />

maintenance departments.<br />

Poisson said: ”We are currently<br />

working on expansion plans, but have<br />

yet to decide what level of investment<br />

to put in.<br />

“The French charter market is<br />

More than two and a half years have With regard to the vip market, and if you consider the square area of <strong>Air</strong> Taxi has purchased a King <strong>Air</strong> 200<br />

strong and not particularly affected<br />

elapsed since Muk <strong>Air</strong> started putting Werjefeld says one of the aircraft’s the plane, it’s only beaten by the BBJ from Regourd Aviation. Ground<br />

by economic variables, so we don’t<br />

a VFW-614 aircraft on the Danish main strengths lies in its ability to and ACJ.”<br />

operations manager Jean Pierre<br />

feel that the investment will be<br />

register. With TCAS recently installed, land on short runways. He told EBAN: Asked whether potential charter Florent said: “The company chose the<br />

affected by the US slow down.”<br />

the aircraft is now available for freight “In an 18-seat configuration fully customers may fret over the safety of King <strong>Air</strong> because it suits our needs<br />

The company has found that the<br />

and passenger charter but says owner loaded, I can land at any airport that a an old aircraft, Werjefeld said: "The perfectly. The range of the aircraft is<br />

market has remained stable, Poisson<br />

Ruben Werjefeldt, he’d never have Citation II can land at. We can get aircraft has been maintained in the around 1,500 nautical miles and the<br />

explained: “The private jet market is<br />

tried in the first place if he’d known down as short as 800 metres if we are same way as the British Queen’s cabin holds between seven and nine<br />

very special, as it only concerns a<br />

how long it was going to take.<br />

Flight; everything has been half- passengers, depending upon our<br />

small number of people world wide.<br />

He said: “It’s been a long and<br />

normal life-cycle.”<br />

configuration.”<br />

Consequently it’s difficult to<br />

somewhat political fight. Early on,<br />

In terms of economics, Muk <strong>Air</strong> is <strong>Air</strong> Taxi is based in Tours, France<br />

introduce new ideas onto the market,<br />

problems which we had to overcome<br />

confident that for the right customer, and operates as a charter company<br />

although fractional ownership<br />

included both support and<br />

the 614 could present a huge saving. concentrating solely on a French<br />

appears to be succeeding.”<br />

maintenance issues.<br />

Werjefeld explained: “If you compare client base. The company has already<br />

The company has found the sales<br />

“It took me a year and a half to<br />

it with business aircraft which offer made a number of domestic and<br />

market to be relatively buoyant also,<br />

convince <strong>Air</strong>bus to cooperate but<br />

similar capability and space, and you international flights, particularly<br />

and believes it will continue to grow.<br />

since then, over the last year and a<br />

want to go somewhere where the size cross-channel, including: Oxford,<br />

“The price of aircraft is currently<br />

half, they have been very supportive.<br />

of the runway might be an issue, then Inverness and Farnborough.<br />

being pushed down by the deflated<br />

“During the certification process,<br />

the price is half what others would Customers are generally vips, ranging<br />

US market, which has knocked onto<br />

an educated crew went elsewhere and<br />

ask. A Global Express, Gulfstream or from corporate executives to private<br />

Europe and increased demand,”<br />

the loss of revenue went into seven- light – which is unheard of for a Falcon 900 would all have a challenge individuals and celebrities. “The<br />

he said.<br />

digit numbers. If I’d known it was 46,000 pound aircraft.”<br />

getting down on La Maule in St French charter market is not very<br />

going to take this long, I’d never have The incentive for vips to fly in a Tropez. I don’t have any problem and strong at the moment. I don’t really<br />

tried to do it. There are more 614, says Werjefeld, does not end I’m half the price.<br />

know what has led to the present<br />

attractive things you can do.”<br />

there. “It has a fully stand-up cabin,” “Conversely, if you’re considering climate but it is possibly the influence<br />

Muk <strong>Air</strong>’s 614 aircraft can be he said. Helmut Kohl preferred the an international trip, we couldn’t of the US market,” explained Florent.<br />

configured to accommodate 18 or 44 614 a lot more before the Challengers. compare with any of these When asked why the company had<br />

passengers or for the purposes of “You have a big first class seat, you three aircraft. With 1,300 nautical chosen a particularly slow time to<br />

freight. It is the latter which Muk <strong>Air</strong> have a hot oven, refrigerators, large miles, we’re way too short purchase an aircraft, Florent replied:<br />

hopes to pursue the most. Said stand-up toilet and big mahogany for intercontinental range but “If a company cannot offer a<br />

Werjefeldt: “There’s less trouble in tables where you could play roulette if for intra-<strong>European</strong> trips, we’d be sufficient number of aircraft for<br />

freight. If you’re delayed, you don’t you wanted.<br />

very competitive.”<br />

charter then customers will look<br />

have to book hotel rooms for 44 “In the business jet market, it’s for Muk <strong>Air</strong> has another 614 which has elsewhere. We bought the aircraft<br />

passengers; if it is a little bumpy, no people who want the extra space. It’s been on a US register for two despite market conditions, because<br />

one vomits; and if you fly in a more than you have in a Dornier 328 years and will soon be added to the we are hoping and expecting for a rise<br />

turboprop, no one wants a refund.” JET, it’s larger than the Gulfstream Danish register.<br />

in demand in the foreseeable future.”<br />

Leeds Leeds awaits awaits<br />

UK’s UK’s first first BBJ2 BBJ2<br />

Leeds-Bradford based Multiflight will be the first UK owner of a BBJ2 when the green aircraft is handed over at the end of September. See full story on page 12<br />

‘Supremely-maintained’ VFW-614<br />

finally joins Danish register<br />

An example of the VFW-614, now offered<br />

by Muk<strong>Air</strong> for charter.<br />

All for one<br />

at Toulon<br />

TAG reacts<br />

to competition<br />

at Geneva<br />

Continued on page 10<br />

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EUROPEAN BUSINESS AIR NEWS<br />

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Flight Operations Manager<br />

To take full control of the day to day flight operations.<br />

Must have experience of Executive Jet<br />

Worldwide Operations and be fully conversant<br />

with EU OPS requirements and International<br />

Regulations.<br />

Chief Cabin Attendant<br />

To be fully responsible for all aspects of cabin<br />

safety and customer VVIP services. Previous experience<br />

in a similar role is essential as is the ability<br />

to provide the very highest standards of cabin<br />

service.<br />

Terms of employment will be attractive and<br />

commensurate with an operation of this type.<br />

If you have the relevant experience and you are interested in joining Triair,<br />

please apply initially by email to: David@triairops.co.uk


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