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April 15, 2009 Newsletter
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Message from the President
Dear Colleagues,
When does an innovation like the air taxi hit the tipping point? As it moves from innovative to mainstream.
The most popular travel magazine in the world, Conde Nast Traveler, has nominated as one of its award finalists an air taxi company. This nomination is alongside giants for the magazine's 2009 innovation and design awards for aviation. Blink Air Taxi is competing against companies like Emirates, Air New Zealand, Qantas, and Boeing. So through April 23, the voting can be done as many times as you like by yourself and by colleagues at http://cntraveller.com/promotions/idawards2009/. Just make sure to vote in all 10 categories so your vote counts. While we would extend the same encouragement to vote for any air taxi company, the enthusiasm for an air taxi win against industry giants would be all the more incredible.
Best regards,
Joe Leader
President, Air Taxi Association (ATXA)
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ATXA Elects Americas Executive Board
Congratulations to the newly elected ATXA Americas Executive Board.
Bruce Holmes was reelected as the Executive Board Chairman. Mr. Holmes has helped to pioneer the air taxi industry through his work with NASA and the SATS Project.
Steve Hanvey was reelected as the Executive Board Vice Chairman. Mr. Hanvey co-founded and serves as the CEO of SATSair.
Aaron Sohacki, president and co-founder of ImagineAir, was reelected as Executive Board Member.
Ryan Stone was elected as the newest Executive Board Member. Mr. Stone serves as the CEO of Jetpool, based in Charlotte, North Carolina and founded in 2004. |
Earth Promise Interview with Traver Gruen-Kennedy
 Earth Promise
Earth Promise recently interviewed Traver Gruen-Kennedy, who serves as Chairman at the Alliance for Sustainable Air Transportation (ASAT). Below is a brief biography of Mr. Gruen-Kennedy and a couple of questions from the interview. To view the interview in its entirety, please visit the Earth Promise website.
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Grim Prospects - Deep Recession, Bigger Losses
IATA
Geneva - The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced a revised outlook for the global air transport industry with losses of US$4.7 billion in 2009. This is significantly worse than IATA’s December forecast for a US$2.5 billion loss in 2009, reflecting the rapid deterioration of the global economic conditions.
Industry revenues are expected to fall by 12.0%* (US$62 billion) to US$467 billion. By comparison, the previous revenue decline, after the events of 11 September 2001, saw industry revenues fall by US$23 billion over the period of 2000 to 2002 (approximately 7.0%**).
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Jet-Alliance Offers Plan for DayJet Eclipse 500s
Matt Thurber, AIN Online
While various entrepreneurs have tried to buy and resell the 28 Eclipse 500 very light jets that were flown by bankrupt air-taxi firm DayJet, none has succeeded. Now Randall Sanada, chairman of aircraft charter and management firm Jet-Alliance of Westlake Village, Calif., has proposed a new way to market those jets, still owned by UT Finance, a subsidiary of United Technologies.
Jet-Alliance plans to offer to sell shares of used DayJet Eclipse 500s to those who placed 60-percent deposits on new Eclipse 500s. “As unsecured creditors,” Sanada said, “there’s really nothing for them except perhaps a small percentage they might recover through litigation.
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Eclipse Jet Enlists Eclipse Aviation's Roel Piper
AVweb
"Roel [Pieper] reluctantly took over as CEO of Eclipse in July of 2008," according to a press release that now announces him as a partner with Mike Press, Mason Holland, Raul Segredo and John Cracken in Eclipse Jet LLC (a.k.a. New Eclipse) -- a company that seeks to acquire and operate the assets of Eclipse Aviation. Pieper, who succeeded Vern Raburn as Eclipse's CEO, found himself unable to fund his plan to turn the financially failing Eclipse Aviation around as the economy collapsed. But, says Holland, he has engaged himself with Eclipse Jet in a way that "proved very useful."
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Former Embraer Regional Sales Manager named Director of JetQuik
Ken Davidson
Former Embraer Regional Sales Manager, Mark Stear has been appointed Director of Executive Jet Programs at JetQuik, a division of Corporate Flight Management. At Embraer Mark’s responsibilities included new aircraft sales and Midwest market development. His new responsibilities include implementation of JetQuik’s expanding executive jet market segments. Mark will focus on all aspects of JetQuik’s Executive Jet Program including customer aircraft acceptance and delivery to owners throughout the US.
“Mark brings a level of industry experience and knowledge unmatched in the area of jet fleet strategic growth.” Said CFM CEO Allen Howell. “Our relationship with Mark extends over two decades and we are pleased to have him working within the CFM family of companies.” Bill Minkoff, President of JetQuik remarked that, “Having a colleague of the stature of Mark Stear onboard demonstrates our dedication to building our brand and seeking future opportunities.”
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Cessna's Pelton: Shouting and Being Heard
AVweb
In the midst of one of the deepest economic downturns the GA industry has seen, Cessna's Jack Pelton says that perception as much as dismal market conditions threaten the industry's recovery. Speaking at the 51st Aircraft Electronics Association convention in Dallas Thursday, Pelton said Cessna has determined to take a leadership role in an unapologetic campaign to reestablish the legitimacy of GA as a critical business tool. "We've got to make it clear that it's OK to fly," Pelton told the opening session of AEA. Click here to listen to AVweb's podcast with Pelton.
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NextGen ATC: The future is ... a.) now b.) tomorrow c.) 2025 d.) never e.) all of the above
Elliot Borin, AirTaxiFlights.com
"NextGen."
It is, to begin with, something of a misnomer.
The implication is futuristic, something out there somewhere, beyond a distant not-quite-visible horizon. Maybe not exactly as far removed from this day's ToDo List as figuring out how to refreezing the polar ice caps after their globally warmed meltdown, but still pretty well down the road.
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2009 Cirrus SR22
Robert Goyer, Flying Magazine Online
We fly the latest SR22 from Cirrus Aircraft and try out its long list of phenomenally cool safety features.
Cirrus Aircraft has introduced its lineup for 2009, and the new airplanes come with some very impressive available features. The big news is a known ice protection system, but there's a raft of other recently announced upgrades, too, with a whole host of advanced acronyms available, EVS, SVT and FIKI, among many others, making the SR22, for the time being, the most technologically sophisticated production piston single-engine airplane in the world, by a nose.
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Bruce Holmes Joins FOCUS’ Washington, DC Office as a Senior Advisor
FOCUS Bankers
FOCUS LLC, a national middle market investment banking firm providing merger, acquisition, divestiture and corporate finance services, announces Dr. Bruce Holmes has joined FOCUS as a Senior Advisor in the Washington, DC office. Dr. Holmes brings to FOCUS years of experience in the government, aerospace and defense industries.
Dr. Holmes is currently the principal in Holmes Consulting, LLC and co-founder of NextGen Sciences, LLC. His companies support a variety of industry, government and university clients in strategy, technology, aviation systems development, and public-private partnerships.
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OpenAir - Flying Above the Crisis
 Local Air Taxi Service makes for good business during tough financial times
In a time of financial uncertainty, OpenAir, an exclusive "Air Taxi" service is helping businesses soar once more.
In today’s high pressure world, being able to meet face to face, and in multiple locations can mean the difference between success and failure. As corporations have come under fire recently for utilizing huge private jets during this time of financial crisis, OpenAir offers a secure, luxurious, on-time alternative to major airlines and corporate jet travel and is saving smart business people both time and money.
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CEO of Dubai Airports to Give Keynote
Diesel DA50 Headed To U.S.
AVweb
Diamond Aircraft used AERO Friedrichshafen as the setting to announce the first delivery of a DA42 NG, with Austro engines, and to firm up timelines for various certifications involving the in-house diesel. The first DA42 NG, which was certified in Europe last month, went to a customer in Sweden. North American customers can expect two Austro-powered Diamonds to be available by mid-2010. Its DA50 Magnum AE300 Austro Engine diesel single was announced as heading towards U.S. certification, probably by mid-2010.
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