Private Jet Rankles Gainey Corp.’s Creditors – Wall Street Journal Blogs
April 10, 2009 by adam wassahlen
Private Jet Rankles Gainey Corp.’s Creditors Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY By Jacqueline Palank Several months after the heads of Detroit’s Big Three auto makers were blasted for taking private jets to Capitol Hill to beg for government money, creditors of Gainey Corp. are calling out the trucking firm’s executives for their ... |
Democratic chair calls for investigation into jet-setting ways of … – The News-Press
April 10, 2009 by adam wassahlen
Democratic chair calls for investigation into jet-setting ways of ... The News-Press, FL Charlie Crist's coverup of his private jet use and Lt. Governor Jeff Kottkamp's jaunts on Florida Highway Patrol planes for family vacations, Florida Democratic Party Chair Karen Thurman released the following statement: "Only 13 years after ... |
Air mail route grounded for Central Idaho backcountry – IdahoStatesman.com
April 10, 2009 by adam wassahlen
Air mail route grounded for Central Idaho backcountry IdahoStatesman.com, ID "I will be unable to make the 52-mile trek on foot over a snow-covered 9000-foot pass to my voting precinct in Yellow Pine in November, and I cannot afford to charter an airplane to take me to Yellow Pine so I can vote," she said. ... |
Safety Management Systems for Business Aviation – Aviation Week
April 10, 2009 by adam wassahlen
Safety Management Systems for Business Aviation Aviation Week, NY According to Russ Lawton, director of safety and security for the Air Charter Safety Foundation (or ACSF, which was launched and is supported by the National Air Transportation Association), the safety culture and open disclosure are interlinked, ... |
Stable production rates at Boeing mean steady work at Spirit … – Wichita Business Journal
April 10, 2009 by adam wassahlen
 Dividend.com | Stable production rates at Boeing mean steady work at Spirit ... Wichita Business Journal, KS Commercial airplane manufacturing faces some of the same problems that have plagued the building of business jets. However, some analysts and economists say the industry is in much better position than the private-jet sector. The optimism is tempered ... Boeing cuts 2010 jet production rate Biz Quicks |
Charter plane companies lay off workers as corporate aviation stalls – Pittsburgh Business Times
April 10, 2009 by adam wassahlen
Charter plane companies lay off workers as corporate aviation stalls Pittsburgh Business Times, U.S.A Vargo said that while the recession is a partial culprit, part of the business is falling off due to political sensationalizing of private jets and the media’s portrayal of executive travel. “All we see on the nightly news is these ultra luxurious ... |
Textron takeover speculation clouds Bell's future – Fort Worth Star Telegram
April 10, 2009 by adam wassahlen
 Telegraph.co.uk | Textron takeover speculation clouds Bell's future Fort Worth Star Telegram, TX based Cessna Aircraft Co., the world’s largest manufacturer of business jets. "Middle Eastern investors have been looking to get into the business-jet market for a long time," said Richard Aboulafia, aerospace industry analyst with the Teal Group ... Cessna jets owner Textron eyed by Middle East investors Textron Rises Most in 28 Years on Report of Sale Textron Shares Up On Kuwaiti Reports Of Takeover |
THE WINNER STANDS ALONE – Washington Post
April 10, 2009 by adam wassahlen
THE WINNER STANDS ALONE Washington Post, United States Igor, a psychotic Russian phone executive with his own private jet, comes to the film festival in pursuit of his ex-wife, Ewa, who has run off with Hamid, an Arab clothes designer also with his own private jet. Igor aims to kill a few people and notify ... |
Textron takeover speculation clouds Bell’s future – Fort Worth Star Telegram
April 9, 2009 by adam wassahlen
Telegraph.co.uk | Textron takeover speculation clouds Bell’s future Fort Worth Star Telegram, TX based Cessna Aircraft Co., the world’s largest manufacturer of business jets. "Middle Eastern investors have been looking to get into the business-jet market for a long time," said Richard Aboulafia, aerospace industry analyst with the Teal Group ... Cessna jets owner Textron eyed by Middle East investors Textron Rises Most in 28 Years on Report of Sale Textron Shares Up On Kuwaiti Reports Of Takeover |
Textron Shares Leap on Takeover Report – Wall Street Journal
April 9, 2009 by adam wassahlen
Telegraph.co.uk | Textron Shares Leap on Takeover Report Wall Street Journal But demand for multi-million-dollar business jets has been falling sharply with the global economic downturn and investors' increasing disdain for executive perks, such as private jets. In the fourth quarter Textron reported 30 orders for Cessna ... Cessna jets owner Textron eyed by Middle East investors |
