| New jets for Empire Aviation
After receiving its Air Operators Certificate, Empire Aviation Group has just taken delivery of two new jets, an Embraer Legacy 600 super mid-size business jet, and a Hawker 850XP jet, ready to offer to the regional charter market. It is also expecting a Gulfstream GIII at the end of May. .
V1 Private Jets Opens First West Coast Office
28/04/2008 16:24:00 Business Wire US8668101046 Finally, Californians who fly privately have an alternative to the high cost of complete and fractional ownership.
V1 Jets CEO Andrew Zarrow was in town last week for the opening ceremony of the company s first West Coast office in San Francisco.
"We re a charter broker with a completely innovative logistics platform," said Zarrow.
"Our proprietary software allows our clients access to the largest on-demand network of private aircraft in the industry, on a real-time basis.
Because we can track empty legs, we reduce empty flight time.
The end result is that we get the best plane at the best price." Clients who fly with V1 won t have to worry about membership, acquisition, or maintenance fees: V1 clients pay as they go and only pay for the time they need.
Charter plane emergency lands in Turkey
The engine of a jet carrying passengers returning from a charter vacation in Turkey exploded shortly after takeoff early Thursday morning, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing back at its originating airport at Antalya. According to travel bureau Tyrkiet Experten, which contracted the flight operated by Onur Airlines, the plane was took off at around 3 am Danish time and was in the air around 30 minutes before again touching ground at the airport in southern Turkey. There were no injuries reported and the plane's passengers returned to Copenhagen on another flight later that day. Nonetheless, several passengers were still clearly shaken after coming out of Kastrup Airport's international arrivals hall. One traveller on the plane, Michael Bj�rnson, said the scariest part of the episode was when the aircraft was flying back to the airport over the Mediterranean after dumping its fuel.
Man United and Chelsea followers join jet set
Hundreds of football fans are hiring private jets to fly to the Champions League final in Moscow in a bid to overcome the lack of hotel rooms and the restrictions of travelling with a commercial airline. Ferguson scoffs at Chelsea fears over title conspiracyRussians to fast-track Champions League fans' visasManchester United homepage |Chelsea homepagePrivate jet companies are reporting huge numbers of inquiries from fans of both Manchester United and Chelsea as supporters continue to explore ways of getting to and from the first all-English Champions League final. .
Three senior Jet Airways officers quit
Three senior officers of Jet Airways have quit the premier private carrier, which today refuted similar reports about its Executive Director Saroj Dutta. The airline confirmed that Vice President in the Chairman's Office N Hariharan, General Manager (Security) Col (Retd) A S Bedi and Senior GM (In-flight Services) S Bandula had quit the company "for reasons of career prospects and family commitments." Hariharan told PTI that he had put in his papers and was joining the Mumbai International Airport Limited as its Director, Corporate Communications. Referring to the reports which said that several other officials had also put in their papers, a Jet Airways spokesperson said, "three persons leaving an organisation for their own career prospects cannot be described as a sudden exodus".
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