https://www.yveslemarquand.comRSS Feed for Yves Le MarquandenMon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.corporatejetinvestor.com/one-minute-week/operators-cant-see-the-good-for-the-fees/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...Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.corporatejetinvestor.com/one-minute-week/operators-cant-see-the-good-for-the-fees/https://www.corporatejetinvestor.com/news/fly-alliance-parts-known/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...Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.corporatejetinvestor.com/news/fly-alliance-parts-known/https://www.corporatejetinvestor.com/news/a-luminair-y-for-european-charter/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...Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.corporatejetinvestor.com/news/a-luminair-y-for-european-charter/https://www.corporatejetinvestor.com/one-minute-week/sampling-the-10x-terroir/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...Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.corporatejetinvestor.com/one-minute-week/sampling-the-10x-terroir/https://www.corporatejetinvestor.com/news/californias-silver-surfer/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...Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.corporatejetinvestor.com/news/californias-silver-surfer/https://www.bailiwickexpress.com/news-ge/guernsey-families-publicly-cast-doubt-over-key-expert-witness-in-letby-prosecution/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...Tue, 18 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.bailiwickexpress.com/news-ge/guernsey-families-publicly-cast-doubt-over-key-expert-witness-in-letby-prosecution/https://www.revolution.aero/deep_dive/air-ceo-prototype-crash-part-of-development/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...Thu, 30 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.revolution.aero/deep_dive/air-ceo-prototype-crash-part-of-development/https://www.revolution.aero/deep_dive/what-is-going-on-in-china-the-growth-of-the-low-altitude-economy/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,...Wed, 16 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://www.revolution.aero/deep_dive/what-is-going-on-in-china-the-growth-of-the-low-altitude-economy/https://www.revolution.aero/news/2023/12/11/rolls-royce-finds-buyer-for-electric-propulsion-business/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...Mon, 11 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.revolution.aero/news/2023/12/11/rolls-royce-finds-buyer-for-electric-propulsion-business/https://guernseypress.com/news/2019/11/28/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...Thu, 28 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://guernseypress.com/news/2019/11/28/guernsey-finance-rep-tells-of-hong-kong-protests-disruption/https://guernseypress.com/news/2019/11/26/bronze-age-burial-mound-in-fact-napoleonic-field-kitchen/The pair from the Clifton Antiquarian Club, based in Bristol, had been invited by the Vale Commons Council to the site on L’Ancresse common, which locally had long been thought to be a prehistoric burial mound.However, upon excavation, the layers of history buried beneath the common proved very modern in comparison to initial assumptions.‘We estimate the site to be between 1803 and 1812,’ said Mr Waite.‘A piece of clay pipe was found, which is initialled on both sides. This particular clay pipe...Tue, 26 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://guernseypress.com/news/2019/11/26/bronze-age-burial-mound-in-fact-napoleonic-field-kitchen/https://guernseypress.com/news/2019/11/16/herbicides-found-in-water-at-st-saviours-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...Sat, 16 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://guernseypress.com/news/2019/11/16/herbicides-found-in-water-at-st-saviours-reservoir/https://guernseypress.com/news/2019/10/28/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...Mon, 28 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://guernseypress.com/news/2019/10/28/i-shed-a-tear-at-call-from-police/https://guernseypress.com/news/2019/10/04/environment-duty-bound-to-submit-energy-policy-in-2020/Speaking in the wake of releasing Wednesday’s statement of intent on the energy policy, Barry Brehaut said the target was clearly ambitious, but commitments had been made.‘We gave a commitment to bring a policy letter to the States before the end of 2020,’ he said.‘We have taken the draft to the States committees and we took the draft to a targeted group of industry experts and energy stakeholders.‘We have realised that you can’t impose a policy on a community – in that respect, the responses we...Fri, 04 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0100https://guernseypress.com/news/2019/10/04/environment-duty-bound-to-submit-energy-policy-in-2020/