Charters 24/04/2008 14:53:00 Business Wire US45866A1051 The Elite Shares Club, (www.elitesharesclub.com) an exclusive luxury amenity club offering jet charters, luxury residences, and exotic automobiles under a single membership, today announced a "Go Green" initiative by selling empty charter jet seats to its membership through its corporate jet partners.
The new program, available only to members of the luxury amenity club, allows members to choose an "empty seat" option rather than a full charter if traveling alone or with one guest.
The unique option could essentially cut the costs of private jet charter for those participating individual members in half, while at the same time, save on high fuel costs and emissions for our providers.
"Let s face it, people who have reached a certain amount of success in life and fly privately, drive expensive automobiles and live in extraordinary houses are not going to give up all their toys to save the environment overnight.

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.

New Flight Charters Sales Surge in Q1 2008

24/04/2008 13:33:00 Business Wire US3369011032 Private jet charter leader New Flight Charters experienced a 37 percent surge in sales in the first quarter of 2008 over the first quarter of 2007, demonstrating continued strong business growth and demand for the company s jet charter brokerage services.
"Our business is delivering reliable personal service with the best rates and equipment in the industry," said Rick Colson, New Flight Charters President.
"We serve top executives and leading corporations who are making New Flight Charters their private jet solution of choice, and our Q1 results reflect this leadership standing.
Flyers are gaining a better understanding the private jet marketplace and seeing more value in our service.
We are having more and more clients come from the jet card companies for our pricing and choice of aircraft for each separate flight.

Voyager Jet Center Adds Three New Managed Aircraft to Charter Fleet

Voyager Jet Center (VJC), a leader in private aviation services with a Fixed Base Operation (FBO) at Allegheny County Airport (AGC), today announced the addition of three new aircraft management customers, continued growth across all lines of business, an increase in aircraft charter customers and hours, and an increase in year-over-year fuel sales by 26 percent.

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.