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Congressional Leaders Highlight Business Aviation Value
Mar 12, 2010
Congressional Leaders Highlight Business Aviation Value
The topic for a March 12, 2010 discussion on the floor of the United States
Senate was a "reauthorization" proposal for funding the Federal
Aviation Administration, but lawmakers looked to the discussion as an
opportunity to point out the importance of business aviation. "The small
businessman or woman that has a Cessna 210, a Cirrus or a Piper...use those
planes every day in every way for very important purposes," Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) said. "To travel around
the state and the country, to do commerce, to haul parts, to haul people - it
is a very significant contribution to our economy." |
El Dorado Times
Brownback calls for support of general aviation
Feb 26, 2010
Brownback calls for support of general aviation February 26, 2010 A Kansas Senator cautions against unnecessary security restrictions in the wake of a February 18 suicidal crash in Texas. "General aviation is a vital component of our way of life," the Senator says. "It facilitates commerce, transportation, safety and rescue operations, and creates jobs for millions of Americans." |
Aero News
Vermont Governor Recognizes Importance Of General Aviation
Feb 19, 2010
Signing a proclamation declaring February "Aviation and Aerospace Appreciation Month", Vermont Governor Jim Douglas sent "... a clear signal that we support this industry that is central to our state's economic success." |
Vermont Business Magazine
Leaders Gather in Burlington in Effort to Enhance Economy Through Aviation
Feb 18, 2010
On Thursday, Vermont's Governor declared February "General Aviation Appreciation Month" and presented South Burlington with a $30k grant to fund Burlington Aviation Technical Training Center. Lt. Governor and VAAA Chair Brian Dubie commented: "Vermont’s aviation sector plays a vital role in our state’s economic well-being and public safety.” |
General Aviation News
Vermont declares ‘GA Appreciation Month’
Feb 17, 2010
Posted by Janice Wood Vermont Governor Jim Douglas proclaims February to be "General Aviation Appreciation Month", and highlights the aviation industry's positive impact on Vermont's economy. |
CNBC (TV)
GAMA's Pete Bunce On Business Aviation Value
Feb 16, 2010
GAMA President and CEO Pete Bunce discusses how business aviation helps companies compete in a global marketplace. "If...a company that is doing a lot of global business and a lot of travel, whether it's flying over to Asia, South America or over to Europe, they're finding the utility of business aviation is something they just have to have," Bunce tells reporter Phil Lebeau. |
Ridgefield [CT] Press
Ridgefield pilot flies relief missions to Haiti
Feb 15, 2010
Written by Kate Czaplinski A Beechcraft Baron traveled 6,000 miles to transport medical supplies and a surgeon to Haiti for earthquake relief. The plane used small airports in the area surrounding Haiti's capital, Port Au Prince. "Small planes can make a difference in getting those supplies to surrounding areas beyond the capital," the story reports. |
New York Times
Volunteers Fly Supplies Into Hard-to-Reach Areas
Feb 05, 2010
By Shaila Dewan Business aviation flights have steadily transported
medical teams and supplies into Haiti in the aftermath of the Jan. 12
earthquake there. Many flights were coordinated through the volunteer
group Corporate Aircraft Responding in Emergencies (CARE), which formed
with NBAA’s support. |
WCAX-TV (Vermont)
Report on Burlington International Airport in Vermont
Feb 03, 2010
Burlington International Airport has spent millions over the
last several years developing not only better facilities for air passengers,
but general aviation, laying the groundwork for a strong economy that could help
Vermont out of the recession and set the stage for long-term growth.
Over the last 15 years, the airport has expanded the south
end, where facilities for private aircraft has seen strong growth. |
The Roanoke [VA] Times
Plane with supplies from Roanoke lands in Haiti
Feb 02, 2010
Plane with supplies from Roanoke lands in Haiti February 2, 2010 Food and medical supplies bought by Roanoke-based company The Vitality Depot were delivered on a nine-seat plane to Pignon, Haiti as part of the larger earthquake-relief effort. |
Inside Private Air Travel (Blog)
Making the Case: Corporate Use of Private Jets
Jan 28, 2010
Posted by James Butler, CEO of Shaircraft Solutions This blog post details the many reasons companies rely on business aviation to me more efficient, productive and competitive. "Many business travelers will tell you that they're more productive on the aircraft than they are in the office," the blogger, a business travel consultant, notes. |
AviationNews.net
Business Aviation Assists In Haitian Crisis
Jan 27, 2010
Business Aviation Assists In Haitian Crisis Jan 27, 2010 "In response to the crisis in Haiti, the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) reported that it has received hundreds of offers of flight support and other assistance from individuals and companies in business aviation," this story reports. |
The [Nashville] Tennessean
Nashville's General Aviation Firms See End to Downturn
Jan 26, 2010
By G. Chambers Williams III Nashville's general aviation firms see end to downturn "During 2009, prices of used business aircraft dropped by as much as 50 percent; many general-aviation manufacturers and flight providers went out of business; and tens of thousands of employees lost their jobs," an NBAA spokesman reports. |
Aviation Week Magazine
BizAv Relief Flights To Flow Into Haiti
Jan 25, 2010
By Kerry Lynch Business aviation supports people and communities in crisis, as has been the case with efforts to provide relief to earthquake-ravaged Haiti, this story reports. |
E-Flying Magazine
GA Leaps in to Aid Haitian Relief Effort
Jan 21, 2010
Flying Magazine recently recognized the efforts of aviation groups like NBAA, AOPA and CARE as well as those in the industry like Showalter Aviation, an Orlando FBO. |
NECN (Lexington, MA)
Mass. Doctors Ship Out to Help in Haiti (VIDEO)
Jan 21, 2010
By Latoyia Edwards Business aviation helps people and communities in times of crisis, as was the case when Suffolk Construction donated the use of its jet to fly medical staff and $1 million worth of equipment and supplies to transport doctors and nurses with Caritas Christi Health Care into an airport north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital city. |
Aviation Week
More Than 100 Biz Aircraft Support Haiti
Jan 21, 2010
By William Garvey william_garvey@aviationweek.com "The support from the business aviation community has
been amazing," said Maryanne Stevenson, president of CARE, who said her
organization "is on a pace to launch one flight to Haiti every 30
minutes." |
KRDO-TV CH 13 ABC-TV
Local Car Dealer Donates Resources To Help Haiti
Jan 21, 2010
By Samantha Anderson A local businessman who is also a pilot is using his company's Beechcraft King Air 350 "to fly doctors and medical supplies into Haiti," this story reports. 'It's great to make a donation and be able to hand goods or services to somebody instead of just cutting out a check,'" he says. |
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Area pilot flies surgeons, supplies to Haiti
Jan 21, 2010
A local insurance company owner is providing his airplane to deliver medical supplies and surgeons to Hospital Sacre Coeur in Milot, Haiti, this story reports. "I'm glad we went (to the hospital), because it gave us a sense of why we did this," the businessman says. |
The Joplin Globe
Pittsburg company, other groups organize Haiti relief efforts
Jan 21, 2010
By Andra Bryan Stefanoni Pittsburg company, other groups organize Haiti relief efforts January 21, 2010 Names and Numbers donated the use of its business jet to transport 600 pounds of supplies to Haiti as part of the overall relief effort, this story reports. |
Mankato [MN] Free-Press
Downs Foods pilot flying workers to Haiti
Jan 21, 2010
By Amanda Dyslin Downs Foods pilot flying workers to Haiti January 21, 2010 Downs Foods, a poultry processing plant with offices in Mankato, MN, has donated the company's airplane to transport medical specialists into Haiti in the aftermath of a Jan. 12 earthquake. "I'm just glad to help out any way I could," the company's chief pilot says. |
The Huntsville [AL] Times
Local businessman donates use of plane to take medical supplies, water systems to Haiti
Jan 20, 2010
By Patricia C. McCarter HUNTSVILLE, AL -- A plane that flew out of the Madison County Executive
Airport Tuesday morning and headed toward Haiti will deliver equipment
to provide 100,000 gallons of clean water a day and a satellite imaging
system that will allow local doctors to treat earthquake victims from afar. |
Crain's New York Business
PA Company Uses Jet to Bring Doctors into Haiti
Jan 19, 2010
Synthes is a global medical device manufacturer that has its U.S. headquarters in West Chester, Pa. The company operates a jet aircraft. Synthes has used the aircraft to fly doctors and medical volunteers to the Hospital for Special Surgery in Haiti, all while most other medical volunteers struggle to reach Haiti on commercial flights. |
CNN (video)
Hands and Feet Project Uses Business Aviation to Help Orphanages in Haiti
Jan 18, 2010
The Hands and Feet Project cares for orphans in Haiti and relies
on general aviation aircraft to receive their supplies, necessary equipment and
medicine. “These pilots are bringing in their own twin engine airplanes
and they’re just taking off and coming to Jacmel [in Haiti] and
they’re bringing us supplies and we want to just say thanks to all those
guys, it means to much to us,” said Mark Stuart, founder of the Hands and
Feet Project. |
MSNBC (video)
Hands and Feet Project Helps Orphans in Haiti
Jan 18, 2010
The Hands and Feet Project cares for orphans in Haiti and relies on general aviation aircraft to receive their supplies, necessary equipment and medicine. “These pilots are bringing in their own twin engine airplanes and they’re just taking off and coming to Jacmel [in Haiti] and they’re bringing us supplies and we want to just say thanks to all those guys, it means to much to us,” said Mark Stuart, founder of the Hands and Feet Project. |
General Aviation News
Beechcraft Baron Used for Airlift Operations
Jan 18, 2010
by Janice Wood Bahama Habitat, a nonprofit that uses general aviation aircraft to support housing and disaster relief work and based in the U.S. Volunteer pilots have delivered medical supplies and evacuated dozens from Haiti since the earthquake happened. |
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Business aviation helps the bottom line
Jan 17, 2010
Op/Ed By Tim Ashenfelter A figure in Minnesota's business aviation community points out that "Dozens of responsible, well-managed Minnesota-based companies consider a business aircraft a valuable workhorse that helps managers, salespeople, and technical experts stay connected to customers and grow their business." |
Daily Finance
Wall Street Has Many Things to Be Sorry About -- Just Not Corporate Jets
Jan 13, 2010
JONATHAN BERR Wall Street Has Many Things to Be Sorry About -- Just Not Corporate Jets January 13, 2010 "Corporate aircraft are a red herring that distracts Congress and the American public from the real issues affecting the country," this newspaper's columnist reports. |
The Bergen [NJ] Record
Job outlook at Teterboro Airport remains bleak
Jan 11, 2010
BY RICHARD NEWMAN "Before the recession, more than 1,600 [people] were employed at Teterboro Airport, and airport users supported nearly 2,000 more jobs in the surrounding area, primarily in Bergen County," this story reports. |
The Wichita Eagle
Recession clobbers fractional-jet industry
Jan 10, 2010
The severe economic downturn that has crippled business aviation "also hurt Wichita's biggest customers for aircraft - the fractional-ownership providers," this story reports. |
Aviation Week
NBAA Chief Sees Signs Of Upturn
Jan 03, 2010
By Kerry Lynch (kerry_lynch@aviationweek.com) General aviation is stabilizing from a "very, very brutal period," exacerbated by misperceptions about business aviation, NBAA's Ed Bolen says in this article. To correct the misperceptions, the story notes, NBAA and GAMA "responded with the launch of the No Plane/No Gain educational campaign..." |
Minneapolis St Paul Business Journal
Air Service Firm Expands to MSP
Dec 18, 2009
Katharine Grayson ASI Jet Center opens maintenance facility at Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport, filling a "big void" left by General Dynamics' departure earlier this year. Tim Ashenfelter, ASI’s president: “Not having a service facility here has really been a detriment to people coming into the Twin Cities.” |
Bloomberg
Honeywell Forecasts 2010 Profit That Trails Estimates
Dec 16, 2009
By Gopal Ratnam and Will Daley Business aviation, which helps support 1.2 million jobs, has seen employment numbers plummet in the recession. Honeywell estimates that business aircraft manufacture will continue to be impacted in 2010. |
Tnooz.com
Business aviation group pulls ads from USA Toda
Dec 16, 2009
Posted by Dennis Schaal NBAA announced its decision to discontinue advertising in USA Today because of the newspaper's recent coverage of general aviation, which has been widely perceived as negative. "We simply decided it's time to stop spending advertising dollars with a newspaper that has demonstrated such an anti-general aviation bias in recent months," a spokesman said. |
|  | No Plane No Gain: Sampling of 2010 Coverage  Since the launch of the No Plane No Gain advocacy campaign, a concerted effort has been made to deliver the message about the importance of business aviation through national and local news outlets. This sampling of national and local television coverage in 2010, highlights the campaign's effectiveness in communicating the industry's importance. NBAA's Bolen on Fox Business Network  Click here to see Ed Bolen, President and CEO of NBAA, in an interview on Fox Business Network NBAA's Bolen on DC's Newschannel 8  In an interview with Newschannel 8, Bolen explains that "... business aviation is prudent, cost-effective, and oftentimes, the only way to get where you're going." |
