Corporate Jet Investor • 28th September 2026

Operators can't see the good for the fees | Corporate Jet Investor

Big deals generate attention, but the operating companies do not always love the extra scrutiny.

KKR recently sold a stake of Atlantic Aviation to Apollo Global Management in a deal valuing the company at about $10bn. This followed on from KKR’s acquisition of Atlantic Aviation in 2021 and Blackstone, Global Infrastructure Partners and Bill Gates’ investment vehicle buying Signature Aviation for $4.7bn in May 2021.

But not everyone is celebrating. “Despite what Gordon Gekko said, greed is not...

Corporate Jet Investor • 10th April 2026

Fly Alliance: Parts known | Corporate Jet Investor | CJI news

A Gulfstream G450 sits dormant in the hangar, unusable until a replacement brake is sourced and fitted. Back in 2019, the aircraft would likely have been out of action for a week at most. In 2026, it could be a month at best. Some just hope for a replacement this quarter.

The vast majority of operators have been forced to suck it up. OEM waiting lists have grown and compounded with delays to make the parts themselves, often leaving aircraft high and dry for weeks at a time. Meanwhile, the secon...

Corporate Jet Investor • 31st March 2026

A Luminair-y for European charter | Corporate Jet Investor | CJI news

When the radios began to buzz with air traffic controllers offering congratulations as LUMINAIR’s first flight traversed the skies over Germany in late 2024, the reality of founding Europe’s newest charter operator truly dawned on Algernon Trotter and his fellow co-founders.

Fast-forward 17 or so months later and LUMINAIR has nine aircraft online, with five more due before year-end and a further six super-midsize new deliveries by second-quarter 2027. The company’s broker-exclusive model, built...

Corporate Jet Investor • 16th March 2026

Sampling the 10X terroir | Corporate Jet Investor

When Marcel Dassault bought the vineyard now known as Chateau Dassault in 1955, he immediately began improving the vines and modernising production. By 1969, the chateau achieved the rank of Grand Cru Classé. Today it is a Saint-Émilion Grand Cru Classé.

The Dassault approach to aircraft production is similar. Entering the ultra-long-range market, the French aircraft maker has spent thousands of hours and millions of euros designing and building the Falcon 10X from scratch. Dassault hosted a ro...

Corporate Jet Investor • 9th March 2026

California’s silver surfer: Jason Middleton, Silver Air Private Jets | Corporate Jet Investor | CJI news

What do elite-level triathlon athletes and business aviation have in common? Jason Middleton, CEO and founder of Silver Air Private Jets is one answer, although he didn’t know it himself until late in his racing career.

“I didn’t grow up passionate about aviation, I was an athlete,” Middleton told us. “I did my first triathlon at 11, joined the US National Team at 14, and turned professional at 17. After high school, I chose not to attend college and instead pursued racing full-time.”

Then beg...

Bailiwick Express News Guernsey • 18th November 2025

Guernsey families publicly cast doubt over key expert witness in Letby prosecution - Bailiwick Express News Guernsey

Members of two local families have publicly raised their concerns about consultant paediatrician and expert witness Dr Sandie Bohin, whose testimony was used to prosecute Lucy Letby.

They spoke at a conference focused on the convicted murderer’s case and calls for a review of the evidence on Saturday.

The individuals, who wish to remain anonymous, delivered presentations outlining their ordeals in trying to secure correct diagnoses and treatments for their ill children across multiple encounte...

Revolution.aero • 30th October 2025

AIR CEO says prototype crash ‘part of clean-sheet aircraft development’ | Revolution.aero

A mishap yes, but crashes are not “unexpected” when developing a clean-sheet aircraft, says AIR CEO Rani Plaut following the loss of a prototype during flight testing on October 23rd.

The incident – involving an uncrewed prototype (tail reg: N514AX) – in which the aircraft was consumed by fire has resulted in a National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigation. No injuries were reported.

In a statement, NTSB said: “The NTSB is investigating the crash Thursday of an unmanned Air Vev Inc...

Revolution.aero • 16th April 2025

What is going on in China? The growth of the low-altitude economy | Revolution.aero

Often dismissed by sceptics in the West as less stringently regulated and therefore not as safe, China’s low-altitude economy has been growing rapidly. But how does it compare with similar work elsewhere in the world?

When the Communist Party of China put its 14th five-year plan into action back in 2021, it was already a considerable way through its vision to reform domestic aviation. Today, the work completed over the past four or so years, in tandem with a world-leading battery supply chain,...

Revolution.aero • 11th December 2023

Rolls-Royce finds buyer for electric propulsion business | Revolution.aero

Rolls-Royce has found an undisclosed buyer for the electric propulsion business it announced was for sale late last month.

Although they will remain anonymous until the transaction is closed, a source at the company confirmed to Revolution.Aero that a buyer had been found for Rolls-Royce Electrical and the sale was well underway. The division has largely focused on developing electric propulsion systems for eVTOL aircraft, such as Vertical’s VX4.

Rolls-Royce announced the intention to sell its...

28th November 2019

Guernsey Finance rep tells of Hong Kong protests disruption

The region has attracted the attention of the world in recent months as the protests have given rise to some of the largest outbursts of civil disorder in Chinese history and strong police crowd control tactics.Guernsey Finance’s Hong Kong representative Dorothy Kwok has been giving an insight into what her life is like now in the place where she has lived for the past 30 years.The average working day has been affected significantly, according to Ms Kwok, because of the destruction of metro stat...

16th November 2019

Herbicides found in water at St Saviour’s reservoir

When analysed, stream samples taken from the St Saviour’s reservoir area in October showed abnormally high levels of two herbicides, MCPA and Mecoprop, while further samples taken from St Saviour’s water treatment also showed trace levels.These were within legal UK limits, but the precautionary decision was taken to cut supply from the reservoir while Guernsey Water investigated the source of the chemical and determined the levels in the raw water.A further sample taken from Kings Mills’ water t...

28th October 2019

‘I shed a tear at call from police’

Mr Simon, who has offered a £10,000 reward to anyone with information that could help clear his name, was 16 when he was found guilty of damaging ‘35 headstones in six to eight minutes’ at Castel Church cemetery in the summer of 1985.Mr Simon, who served a one-year sentence in borstal for the offence, has always maintained his innocence – and has been ‘bowled over by the positive messages’ after going public with his appeal for answers.In a further update on his appeal, Mr Simon – who now lives...