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H2 2025
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NetJets Aviation: The future of fractional – We chart the rise and rise of the pre-eminent fractional operator with its president Pat Gallagher.

 

Up Front:

The H2 Question: Are insurance rates falling? – If so, how low will they go. Six experts share insights.

Otto Aerospace: The Phantom 3500 – Aims to make a spirited impact in the super-midsize jet market.

 

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Maintenance: Beat the Q4 bottleneck – Although MRO slots are growing harder to find, there are remedies, according to four leading maintenance providers.

flyExclusive: The last mile on floats – A new Cessna Caravan service from fractional and charter operator flyExclusive aims to ensure clients arrive refreshed at their island destination.

Financing flight: Top financiers share insights – Younger buyers, new entrants and plenty of opportunities.

Saudi Arabia: The booming bizjet market – Business aviation in the Kingdom is hotting up.

Out of office: Lou Seno’s 50 visits to Oshkosh – We strap into the right-hand seat of Lou Seno’s Beechcraft Bonanza for his 50th consecutive visit to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh.

SAF solutions: Signature & 4AIR – How senior executives are driving demand for SAF supplies.

Wildlife conservation: Taking off with LightHawk – Volunteer pilots and their aircraft are helping to restore endangered species to their former American homes.

 

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Life in seven questions: James Lara, Gray Stone Advisors – James Lara’s passion for aviation has powered his 40-year career in executive leadership. Plus, why he likes Falcon jets.

 

Aircraft:

First Look: Cessna Citation Ascend – We profile Textron’s new Citation Ascend, as the manufacturer prepares its launch.

Jet Data: At a glance – Plus we focus on two new business jets making headlines recently.

 

Events:

Report: CJI Malta 2025 – News and views from our inaugural conference on the Mediterranean island.

Report: SAF Investor London 2025 – SAF prospects energised speakers at our London conference.

Report: CJI Dubai 2025 – The United Arab Emirates (UAE) are proving a powerhouse of growth for business aviation.

CJI Dealmakers Club – After a long day at the EBACE show, guests relaxed with friends old and new.

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Asian operators: Reaching for new heights – We profile the expansion plans of five leading operators in Asia. Senior execs at ACAM, Jet Aviation, Metrojet, Phenix Jet Cayman and TAG Aviation explain how they intend to grow their businesses.

 

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The Q2 Question: How to select an aircraft registry? – Six leading business aviation professionals give their top tips on what factors you should consider.

Flight training: Goes electric – CJI takes a flying lesson on a Pipistrel Velis Electro and considers how electric trainers can cut both costs and carbon emissions.

 

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Out of office: Jahid Fazal-Karim – In the first of a new series, we climb into the cockpit of a GT3 (and GT4) racing car with Jetcraft’s CEO to learn what business lessons the sport can teach.

CJI Survey: Connectivity – Our latest research, conducted with Viasat, reveals cloud-based, AI-powered applications are becoming more important for business jet travellers.

The Big Interview: Automotive lessons – Holger Krahmer explains how the European Business Aviation Association can learn advocacy lessons from the European car industry.

Appraising the appraiser: Bob Zuskin – Recently retired from Jet Perspectives, he explains how his father’s pawn shop prepared him for a career as a business aircraft appraiser.

 

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Life in seven questions: Perla Fagundez, Aerowise – The founder and CEO of the company is on a mission to boost the number of women finding employment in business aviation.

 

Aircraft:

Jet Comparison: G800 v G650 – As the OEM prepares to start deliveries of the recently certified G800, we ask two US brokers how the new aircraft will shape the G650 market.

Jet Data: Key numbers – Must-have information from OEMs about the performance and prices of leading jets.

 

Events:

Report: CJI London 2025 – The Trump Bump (and tariffs) are leading sweeping changes that are shaping business aviation. More than 550 aviation professionals heard at our conference how those changes are likely to impact their businesses.

Report: CJI London networking – Delegates came for the conference sessions but but stayed for more than 25 hours of networking. Our photo roundup captures a flavour of the Dealmakers dinner plus the Historic Public House Walking Tour.

 
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Planning the perfect PPI – Here’s how to take the angst (and expense) out of planning pre-purchase inspections for your next business aircraft acquisition.

 

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Will top connectivity speed jet sales? – Six appraisers and brokers consider whether connectivity upgrades will help sellers close a jet sale more quickly.

 

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Smarter charter: Air Charter Service plans expansion – Despite the recently cooling charter market, Air Charter Service has ambitious expansion plans.

Industry Mindset Survey: Our latest survey revealed varying levels of optimism around the world.

Fraud fighter: The Alder Fuels story – SAF visionary Bryan Sherbacow helped to shape the renewables sector … before serving a prison sentence for fraud.

Record business: A “golden letter” from PwC inspired Lasse Rungholme to launch his multi-million dollar aircraft documentation business OPMAS based in Aarhus, Denmark.

EVTOLs: Heading for a hard landing? – After both Lilium and Volocopter filed for insolvency, what is next for the advanced air mobility industry? Will investors return to the industry?

Category creation: A user’s guide – Roberto Guerrieri, CEO and co-founder of software business Bluetail explains his mission to modernise the world of aircraft records.

 

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Life in seven questions: Svenja Wortmann – After considering a career in journalism, Svenja Wortmann discovered her true vocation in business aviation.

Jet Data: The numbers you need – Our guide delivers all the must-have information from aircraft manufacturers about the performance and prices of leading makes of business jets.

 

Events:

Report: CJI Miami 2024 – News, views and photographs.

 
Corporate Jet Investor Quarterly Q3 2025
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How to spin a winner: Choosing an aircraft manager without the risk. Selecting the right manager is more important than costs, says Michael Moore, executive vice president, Essex Aviation.

Aircraft:

Jet Data: The key numbers – All you need to know about the latest business jets. From price tags to performance metrics, our handy guide offers an at-a-glance summary of the market. 

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Artificial intelligence: Why ‘AI is going to be everywhere’ – What it means for the industry and how AI promises to reshape every aspect of aircraft operation and operation.

Features:

  • Connectivity counts: Why in-flight connectivity is growing more important, according to the views of 200-plus industry professionals polled in our exclusive research.
  • Simulating benefits with CAE: CJI straps into the right seat of CAE’s Phenom 300 CAE700XR simulator with Top Gun movie pilot Kevin LaRosa.
  • Aircraft batteries: Keeping positive – Profiling the ground-breaking work of electric aircraft motors developer magniX, which is working in partnership with NASA.
  • Combatting contrails: New research from 4AIR explains the unexpected threat posed by contrails and how they can be remedied.

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Events

  • Revolution.Aero 2024 – OEMS, investors and industry analysts took centre stage at our London conference.
  • CJI Dealmakers Club – Geneva, the City of Peace, Switzerland was the venue for our annual meeting of industry leaders who make aircraft transactions happen.
  • CJI Asia 2024 – Our conference uncovered optimism in Asia, despite the competitive market. 
  • Aircraft Transaction Masterclass – This two-day course dissected all the elements of an aircraft transaction, including the sales process, pre-purchase inspections and tax.  
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Echelon on top: The new Echelon business jet promises to take Honda Aircraft Company from “start-up to mainline player”, says Amod Kelkar, chief commercial officer.

Aircraft:

Jet Data: The key numbers – All you need to know about the latest business jets. From price tags to performance metrics, our handy guide offers an at-a-glance summary of the market. 

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Business aviation: Going electric – Always a test bed for aerospace innovation, how will business aviation respond to the challenges and opportunities of eVTOL aircraft? Our special report charts the course ahead.

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Events:

  • CJI London 2024 – Our event drew more than 570 delegates to the heart of London.
  • SAF London – Speeding the supply of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) was the focus of this conference.
  • CJI Latin America – Nearly 300 business leaders in Latin American business aviation shared their upbeat views on industry prospects for the region.
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Q1 2024

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  •  Avfuel’s one-in-three achievement – From a small fuel company serving three US states, Avfuel now fills the tanks of one-in-three US business jets. Craig Sincock, its president, attributes the meteoric rise of his company to carefully listening to customers and colleagues.

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  • Welcome to transatlantic SAF – Gulfstream president Mark Burns celebrates the first transatlantic flight fueled entirely by Sustainable Aviation Fuel in a G600.
  • BBJ Select – The easier way to a BBJ. Boeing’s new BBJ Select jet is the easiest way to acquire this popular business liner. Why not take our virtual tour?
  • Jet Data: Featuring three new business jets – The BBJ Select, Cessna Citation CJ3 Gen2 and the HondaJet Echelon.

Up Front

  • London’s newest black cab – A capital idea: how Flexjet and Eve deployed a Sikorsky S-76C helicopter on a four-day mission to simulate eVTOL flights over London.

Features 

  • Satellite love: How buyers choose a connectivity solution – Our research, in partnership with satellite services provider Intelsat, reveals the three top factors that guide buyers’ choice when selecting a system for their business jet. 
  • ACAM: Taking ‘a rocket ride to the West’ – Darren Broderick has grown his company into the largest corporate jet manager in southeast Asia – and now he is targeting Europe. 
  • VIP helicopters: ‘Riding the magic carpet’ – Why twin-engine helicopters are winning over more HNWIs tired of long car commutes in congested city traffic. We take the temperature of the VIP helicopter flights on both sides of the Atlantic. 
  • Tiltwings: Breathing new life into an old design – Here’s how novel tiltwing aircraft are aiming to combine the benefits of both fixed-wing and rotary designs. 

Events

  • CJI Miami 2023 – Nearly 70% of our 470 delegates were very optimistic about the future of business aviation over the next 12 months.

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  • Life in seven questions: Iris Riesen – How the smell of kerosene and the excitement of business aviation lured Iris Riesen, accountable manager at the Zurich-based Cat Aviation, back to the industry after a spell away.
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Q3 2023

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  • Wheels on fire – No aviation business has attracted as much attention as Wheels Up this year. We probe how and why the restructuring happened. And we explain how the business is preparing for a profit-focused future.

Aircraft

  • eVTOLS at the Paris Olympics – Volocopter is planning an Olympic achievement with the launch of the world’s first public eVTOL services at the Paris games next year.
  • Flexjet’s star HQ – The new $50m star-shaped Flexjet operations centre makes a statement.
  • Airbus ACJ TwoTwenty – Launch customer FIVE Hotels likes its big business jet so much, it’s reluctant to relinquish the aircraft for Airbus to exhibit at shows. Here’s why.
  • Including the new Cessna Citation Ascend – Our buyers’ guide to all the key metrics for leading business jets.

Up Front

  • CJI Tech Map: Charting our digital future – Business aviation is digitising fast. Our guide to more than 150 software-based solutions available today helps you navigate the complex digital landscape of 21st century private aviation. Click here to see the full list of companies. 

Features 

  • ‘We are a company of engineers’: CJI interview – Dassault Aviation top executive Carlos Brana credits the discipline and skills of engineering with helping the company thrive in the highly competitive world of business jet manufacturing.
  • Superior interiors: CJI surveys VVIP completions – Six leading VVIP completions firms share their experience of clients’ current interior design preferences. How do their customers balance personal requirements against enhancing charter appeal and maximising resale value?
  • Wright Brothers case: Lessons learned or spurned? – After the prosecution of Debbie Mercer-Erwin, owner of Wright Brothers Aircraft Title Inc., what lessons can business aviation learn? Knowing your customer would be a good start.
  • Remembering Hamish Harding: A life of adventure – Hamish Harding, the late chairman of Action Aviation, carved his mark as an accomplished business leader and explorer of air, land and sea. We recall his many adventures – as we reported them.

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  • eVTOLS: Commercial take off in the 2020s? – We profile 10 leading eVTOL pioneers as they raise capital and navigate their flight path through aircraft design, planning target markets and winning certification approvals before entry into service.

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Up Front

  • CJI Connectivity Survey: Reveals ‘watershed moment’ – CJI’s exclusive survey of nearly 100 private jet owners, charter operators, corporates, fractionals, brokers and advisers, conducted in partnership with Inmarsat, reveals the latest connectivity trends and preferences.

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  • CJI London 2023 – Some 600 business leaders attended our London conference in February this year. The twin themes were the viability of business aviation and how to improve its sustainability record. We catch a flavour of both the debate and the many networking events delegates enjoyed.
  • CJI London Party– The treats of London – This photo roundup captures some of the social highlights from our Corporate Jet Investor 2023 London conference.

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  • Day in the Life: Zipporah Marmor, ACASS – Montrealer Zipporah Marmor juggles being vice president at ACASS, chair of IADA plus motherhood. And then finds time to lift 250lbs weights for fun. We weigh up her busy day.
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  • Private jets: This time its personal – Billed as a personal jet, Cirrus Aircraft’s Vision Jet promises to transform private aviation, claims CEO Zean Nielsen. We take a test flight before talking to Richard Kane, CEO, Verijet, which offers Vision Jet charter for as little as $550 per seat.

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Q3 2022

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CJI Power Players 2022

  • Meet the sustainability heroes – With your help, we name the 20 most influential men and women in business aviation today. Our independent panel of six industry judges selects the people they believe are driving real progress on aviation sustainability topics worldwide.

Features 

  • Arena Television – This was one of the biggest UK outdoor broadcasting firms, before its directors fled pursued for a suspected multi-million, asset-backed lending fraud.
  • Aircraft Family: Duncan Aviation – From Piper Cubs to private jets in 66 years, the Nebraska-based MRO specialist and aircraft sales company has grown from 12 employees to more than 2,000. Todd Duncan, chairman of Duncan Aviation, explains the pleasures and pitfalls of running a family business.
  • Company profile: Four Corners Aviation – We profile the company that claims to offer “all the benefits of owning a private jet without owning a private jet”. Here’s how Four Corners believes it has spotted a new niche in private jet aviation.

Events

  • Report: CJI Asia 2022 – Business aviation is emerging from the shadow of Covid into a new age of soaring demand, from new and returning clients, tempered only by worries about geopolitical instability and inflation.
  • Report: Revolution.Aero 2022 – Bringing together 300 innovators, investors, regulators, operators and other stakeholders for two amazing days in San Francisco 2022.

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  • Picture This – Hamish Harding, chairman, Action Aviation – His mission to space.
  • Day in the life: Margrit Waltz – How this Daher ferry pilot has completed 925 transatlantic crossings and delivered thousands of aircraft – plus a baby.
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Q2 2022

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  • Publisher’s Letter: April is the busiest month (for business aviation)
  • Up front: Leo Knaapen – “Serve, lead and represent.” These are the three watchwords Knaapen gleaned during more than 30 years at Bombardier.
  • Cover Story: The vision for VistaJet – Thomas Flohr, founder and CEO explains why his company and the business jet industry in general, have recently passed a tipping point.
  • Technicians: Targeting the talent pool. Why it is time to get creative in finding solutions to boosting the supply of mechanics.
  • Jetcraft: Celebrating its 60th birthday – Jetcraft prides itself on being “a big little company”.
  • In-flight connectivity: In six key questions – we have teamed up with Inmarsat to chart industry views in a survey. We also profile 12 leading connectivity providers.
  • Day in the life: Mark Elliott, yacht broker – “The harder I work, the luckier I am.”
  • Report: CJI London 2022
  • Picture this: 8,000 Cessna Citation deliveries – and counting. Textron’s Lannie O’Bannion tells us more.
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Q1 2022

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  • Publisher’s Letter: Facing the future-face-to-face
  • Day in the life: Runway to The White House – Gregg Brunson-Pitts, founder, Advanced Aviation Team.
  • First Look: Gulfstream G700 – We talk to Gulfstream president Mark Burns about the aircraft.
  • Connectivity: ‘A game changer.’ Our connectivity survey, conducted in partnership with Inmarsat.
  • Flapper: Spreads its wings – CEO Paul Malicki explains why the company is poised for international expansion.
  • Stratospheric ambition: Solar explorer Raphaël Domjan dreams of piloting his solar-powered plane to the stratosphere.
  • Report: CJI Miami 2021 – “This is the uppest of up markets we have ever seen,” said one speaker.
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Q3 2021

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  • Publisher’s Letter: The big bounce back gathers pace
  • After the (Covid) storm: Three leading operators in Asia – Sino Jet, Metrojet and TAG Aviation Asia – share plans for growth, as they bounce back from the pandemic.
  • Cover Story: The largest US operators have never seen so much demand. But it is hard work and finding new talent is key.
  • Day in the Life: Vishal Hiremath – CEO & founder of JetClub takes inspiration from the TV series Shark Tank to build his new cutting-edge charter business.
  • Aircraft Family: Two registries, one big family – Sir Jorge Colindres leads a family business that spans two registries: the Registry of Aruba and the San Marino Aircraft Registry. We tell their story.
  • Jet Data: The numbers you need to know All the key numbers associated with leading business jet models from the major OEMs are delivered in our list.
  • Picture this: HondaJet Elite S – This new HondaJet offers fresh colour choices and improved performance in the very light jet category. Here’s how the manufacturer put the elite into the new HondaJet Elite S.
  • Hybrid benefits: The Airlander 10 airship, designed for regional travel, is among the world’s longest aircraft and one of the greenest with significantly reduced emissions compared with fixed wing planes.
  • Digital maintenance: Robots to the rescue Swarm robots that inspect engine innards are just one of the many safety and cost attractions of the rapidly developing revolution in digital business jet maintenance.
  • Cryptocurrency: Unlocking the potential of the newest way to pay Distrusted by some, cryptocurrency could be the perfect payment answer for the post-pandemic world.
  • Bonus depreciation: Appreciating the benefits Can your client truly afford the shiny new (or pre-owned) business jet in their sights? .
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Q2 2021

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  • Publisher’s Letter: Forget Clearance Clarence, Autonomy is Coming
  • Cover Story: Autonomous technology promises to revolutionise not just aviation and passenger and cargo transport but also how and where we live and work
  • First Look: Beechcraft Bonanza G36
  • Day in the Life: Janine Iannarelli – President and founder of Par Avion credits her equestrian training with helping her to jump hurdles in business aircraft sales.
  • Aircraft Family: Constructing the future – Jerry Holland built FBO firm Sheltair from a construction company. It now contains three family generations.
  • Jet Data: Your handy buyers’ guide to all the key performance metrics of leading makes of business jets.
  • Picture this – Hill Helicopter’s new HX50 plus Dassault Aviation’s Falcon 10X largest cabin in its class.
  • Garmin Autoland – The world’s first certified autonomous system, at the touch of a button, can fly and land without the need for human intervention of any kind.
  • Mapping SAF supplies: We chart global supplies – And probe the question of what is preventing full uptake?
  • Planet 9 in profile – Stellar growth is on the horizon for this on-demand and charter company, according to its founders.
  • Hamish Harding’s Deep Dive – How the Action Aviation chairman dived to the deepest part of the world’s oceans and broke two world records on the 12-hour mission.
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