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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 />
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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 />
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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 />
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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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To learn more, call Steve Jones, Regional Vice President, Europe, at +44 118 977 0180, e-mail:<br />
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 />
Greysof London Ltd<br />
Chauffeur Services<br />
Wyndham London, Chelsea Harbour, London SW10 0XG<br />
Tel : 08701 909 321<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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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 />
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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 />
can be overcome.”<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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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 />
and operates the Avolus <strong>Air</strong>craft Sales<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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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 />
helicopter squadron with the latest<br />
machines including customized<br />
police equipment.<br />
In the 1970s, police helicopters<br />
were used only for traffic<br />
monitoring. Since then, however,<br />
they have adopted a variety of other<br />
tasks, including crime fighting,<br />
missing-persons searches, support<br />
in disaster relief missions, and the<br />
handling of special traffic and<br />
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Sloane Helicopters has added a Bell<br />
206B helicopter to its AOC in the UK<br />
after what operational services<br />
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 />
The project to make one aircraft<br />
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that it became a nightmare due to<br />
Greek bureacracy regarding the<br />
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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