| Voyager Jet Shows Growth: Two New Charter Dispatchers Join Team
Voyager Jet Center (VJC), a leader in private aviation services with a Fixed Base Operation (FBO) at Allegheny County Airport (AGC), has hired two new aircraft dispatchers to support the organization's continued growth. Steven Gauer and Robert Levino are responsible for helping to oversee the logistics of day-to-day charter flight operations - before, during and after every flight. .
Kentucky to use private jet for recruiting visits
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -- University of Kentucky athletics is joining the jet set of college sports. The University of Kentucky Athletics Association Board of Directors approved funding a private plane for use in recruiting. The plane will be available to the sports of football, men's basketball and, to a lesser degree, women's basketball. University of Kentucky Deputy Athletics Director Rob Mullens says the university will look to buy between 100 and 150 hours of flight time in the 2008-09 school year. In recent years, members Luther Deaton and Bill Gatton lobbied for UK to buy a plane to help football and men's basketball coaches keep pace with competing recruiters. Deaton and Mullens noted that as many as two-thirds of Kentucky's competing schools in the Southeastern Conference owned their own planes.
Halcyon Jets Highlighted Nationally in Media Reports on Growth of Novel and Elite Private Air Travel Services
Halcyon Jets Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB:HJHO), pioneering high-growth business strategies for the next generation of private air travel brokerage, has been cited in two recent news media reports discussing the expanding marketplace for luxury and specialized services for elite business, celebrity and other luxury-oriented personal travelers. Halcyon's Dream Card prepaid on-demand jet travel packages were discussed in a recent article appearing in TheStreet.com, a leading financial media website reporting on financial markets, and on economic and industry trends. "The proliferation of private jets started with fractional ownership plans. The new trend, however, is on-demand jet flights, a no-strings-attached service offered by companies like Halcyon Jets and XOJET," according to an April 22, 2008, article on TheStreet.com.
Global Exec Aviation Planning to Expand Private Jet Charter Operations on East Coast
Los Angeles based air carrier operates Gulfstream, Challenger and Cessna jet aircraft. Long Beach, CA (PRWEB) April 28, 2008 -- Los Angeles based Global Exec Aviation announced today its plans to expand its operations on the East Coast by basing additional aircraft in the northeast. The company currently operates and charters to the public a luxurious Gulfstream III based in Sarasota, Florida under their FAA approved Part 135 air carrier certificate. Global Exec has additional private jets for charter to include Gulfstream, Challenger and Cessna aircraft based in Los Angeles, CA. According to Ramon Manriquez, President of Global Exec, "Our continued growth and client demand for private jet aircraft requires continued expansion on the east coast. We are currently looking at several locations in the northeast of the company to base additional aircraft to meet that need.
New technology, FAA's subjectivity create challenges
Q: As the Federal Aviation Administration increases scrutiny of airlines' aircraft maintenance, how has corporate aviation been affected? A: Corporate aviation has been impacted in a very similar way. The FAA's oversight in the corporate aviation community is primarily focused on charter operations, and honestly they don't spend as much time and effort on the private operator ..., someone who has an aircraft and uses it exclusively for business of their own but doesn't hire it out. So the FAA's scrutiny on the air-carrier side of corporate aviation, which is the charter operators, has been on the increase, and it's been a challenge. A company called AMI Jet Charter came under the scrutiny of the FAA, and their certificate was revoked. Q: Can you explain the subjectivity in the level of oversight by the FAA? A: We deal with operators all over the country that are under the scrutiny of the FAA in all different regions of the country, and it is painfully obvious to us that the FAA has a different position on the same topics in just about every area of the country.
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