World Fuel Services Launches Ascent

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With the backdrop of the 2012 NBAA Meeting and Convention, World Fuel Services officially launched the new Ascent global fuel brand for FBOs. With a new logo and enhanced programs and benefits, Ascent offers a strong branding option for FBOs built on supply reliability along with high-quality aviation fuel products and services.
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NetJets(R) Opens Exclusive-Use FBO at Atlanta's DeKalb-Peachtree Airport (PDK)

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NetJets(R) Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway(R) company and the worldwide leader in private aviation, announced the opening of a new exclusive-use facility at Atlanta's DeKalb-Peachtree Airport (PDK). NetJets has signed a long-term lease with Atlantic Aviation for the 2,800 square-foot facility which includes customer and crew lounges, a conference and business center and flight planning facilities.
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The Future Of Insurance Rates: Good News or Bad News? How to make the most of what’s to come!

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By Jim Gardner

As the saying goes, there is good news and there is bad news. Which would you like to hear first?

First, let’s look at the good news for the FBO Operator. We are in the continued midst of a soft aviation insurance market that began in 2006. Since then, aviation insurance rates have declined to their lowest point in history.  

Now, the potentially bad news, beginning in the winter of 2010, many in the aviation insurance industry are predicting a return to a Hard Market.  

What is a Hard Market? It is generally characterized by fewer underwriters bidding on a particular risk - resulting in fewer options, increased rates and premiums, decreased limits of liability and less ancillary coverage offered. In addition, there are more stringent underwriting requirements on training with less flexibility for the operational managers.

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Sheltair Announces New FBO Operations at Albert Whitted Airport

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Sheltair, Florida’s largest, privately-owned group of fixed base operations (FBOs), announces its newest FBO and property leasing location at Albert Whitted Airport, St, Petersburg Florida (Sheltair SPG). As of November 1, 2012, Sheltair SPG commenced operations as the sole service provider on the airfield.
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Industry Wakes Up To Rising Bizav Demand In Africa

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Visitors to the Africa Aerospace & Defence show (AAD 2012), held in September at South Africa’s Waterkloof Air Force Base near Pretoria, might have been excused for thinking that they had arrived at a business aviation convention. While the exhibition halls groaned under the weight of armored vehicles, the outside static aircraft display was dominated by an impressive array of corporate and private jets.
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Universal FBOs Get Facelift To Add Style To Flight Support Expertise

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Flight planning and support group Universal Weather & Aviation has largely built its reputation on its 50 years of experience and harnessing technology to make life easier for business aircraft operators. But now the U.S.-based group is looking to upgrade the quality of its ground handling facilities in some 20 countries around the world, starting at London Stansted Airport, where it last month took the wraps off a comprehensively refurbished FBO.
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Shanghai Hawker Pacific Sees China Business Aviation Trending Up

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Shanghai Hawker Pacific Business Aviation Service Centre General Manager Carey Matthews is upbeat about business aviation trends in mainland China. In a press briefing at NBAA’12 he reported that year over year growth is 13 percent for business aviation movements at both Hongqaio (SHA) and Pudong (PVG) airports in Shanghai, China.
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Howard Povey Joins Marshall Business Aviation as Sales Director

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Marshall Aerospace has appointed Howard Povey, head of aircraft sales and brokerage at Marshall Business Aviation. Based at its Cambridge Airport, UK headquarters, the new business will focus initially on acquiring and selling pre-owned business jets and turboprops. Povey will head the new operation and he joins the company's management team as sales director on 5th November and will be based at Cambridge Airport and will report to managing director of Marshall Business Aviation (MBA) and Marshall Executive Aviation (MEA), Steve Jones.
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MBA Opens Office at Harrods Aviation Luton

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Marshall Business Aviation has opened a technical support office at London Luton Airport within the Harrods Aviation facilities. The move is in response to an increasing number of Cessna Citation aircraft owner/operators flying in or now based at London Luton where Harrods Aviation also runs an established FBO. 
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Hawthorne Global Aviation Services FBO Expands in New Orleans (NEW), Plans for the Future

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Hawthorne Global Aviation Services has acquired its second FBO and first in the Gulf Coast area. The South Carolina-based company, which has an 80-year heritage in aviation, purchased a controlling interest in the AeroPremier facility at New Orleans Lakefront Airport and has rebranded it as a Hawthorne property. The location, which completed extensive renovations earlier this year, has more than 50,000 sq. ft. of hangar space and can accommodate aircraft up to the size of a Global Express. Earlier this year, Hawthorne acquired the ExcelAire FBO at MacArthur Airport on Long Island, N.Y.
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NBAA Recognizes 2012 Flying Safety Award Recipients

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The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) will recognize four Member Companies for outstanding safe flying achievement during its upcoming 65th Annual Meeting & Convention (NBAA2012) in Orlando, Fla., as well as hundreds more companies that have collectively compiled thousands of hours of safe flying during the past year.
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