Aviation News

Solairus Aviation Brings Together Top Industry Professionals Under a New Banner (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) SAN FRANCISCO—-Dan Drohan, founder of Sunset Aviation, LLC, has announced the renaming of Sunset Aviation to Solairus Aviation. Solairus Aviation is a full-service private aircraft charter and aviation asset management company that provides service to airports across the U.S. [...]

ACE Aviation Holdings Inc. announces participation in Air Canada credit facility (CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance) ACE Aviation Holdings Inc. announced today that its participation in the credit facility of up to $700 million announced earlier today by Air Canada represents $150 million. ACE’s $150 million share is repayable in equal consecutive quarterly installments of [...]

View chat: on end for aviation boom in India? (IBN live) Salaries delayed, costs cut, has the aviation bubble burst?

GE Aviation wins tax credit for $161M project (BizJournals) The Ohio Development of Development has awarded GE Aviation a 50 percent job retention tax credit for a $161 million expansion project at its Evendale headquarters. (GE)

(AFX UK Focus) 2009-07-24 12:05 STOCKS NEWS US-CIT Group may sell aviation finance unit: WSJ (Interactive Investor) Stocks on the move Real-time Equity news 0646 ET 24July2009-CIT Group may sell aviation finance unit: WSJ ——————————————————————————

Aviation company plans 480-worker expansion in Indiana (WTHR Indianapolis) An aviation company that does interior work on corporate aircraft plans to expand its operations at Indianapolis International Airport. Find out how to apply for a job.

General aviation holding its own at Yeager, despite economy (The Charleston Gazette) CHARLESTON, W.Va. — While fuel sales at Yeager Airports general aviation area are down substantially from last years levels, private aircraft activity remains strong — especially compared with other areas of the nation harder hit by plant closings and…

Aviation authority set to award runway expansion contract for executive airport (Charleston Regional Business Journal) The Charleston County Aviation Authority s board is expected to award a $7 million contract at its Thursday board meeting for an upgrade to the primary runway at Charleston Executive Airport on Johns Island.

Aviation Week puts MAS among top three (Business Times (Malaysia)) MALAYSIA Airlines ( 3786 ) has been identified as among the top three mainline carriers for 2009 after Singapore Airlines and Lufthansa by Aviation Week’s Top-Performing Companies (TPC) study of the global airline industry.

China aviation heads to clearer skies (Financial Times) After a turbulent first half, it seems that China s aviation industry is flying into clearer skies. On Tuesday, Air China , the country s flag carrier, said profit for the first six months of 2009 jumped more than 50 per cent from [...]