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1 week ago | 
aviationweek.com | Angus Batey
LONDON—Diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) policies and programs may be under attack in the U.S., but the gains made during decades of disability-rights campaigning should help protect the aviation industry from any negative consequences, a leading figure in the UK’s disabled flying charity...
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1 week ago | 
aviationweek.com | Angus Batey
Angus Batey has been contributing to various titles within the Aviation Week Network since 2009, reporting on topics ranging from defense and space to business aviation, advanced air mobility and cybersecurity.
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1 week ago | 
aviationweek.com | Angus Batey
Although he is the son of a pilot, Kyle Patel, 33, says that aviation was the last industry he thought he’d work in. His first company provided fitness training services, but in his early 20s he wound up getting a job as assistant to a charter broker. In short order, he established Bitlux—a charter...
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2 weeks ago | 
aviationweek.com | Angus Batey
KIDLINGTON, OXFORDSHIRE—It might seem counterintuitive in an era where air-taxi startups and future-flight pioneers are highlighting the emergent benefits of local and regional air connectivity, but airports have their work cut out to survive. With demand for future air transportation solutions...
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1 month ago | 
aviationweek.com | Angus Batey
Farnborough Airport has agreed to purchase the entire annual production of a new sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) plant to be built in its locality. The plant, a first-of-a-kind installation, will be operated by startup Hydrogen Refinery—which is headquartered in Farnborough. It will begin delivering...
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1 month ago | 
aviationweek.com | Angus Batey
LONDON—Despite the increasing size of the UK-based business-aviation fleet, ever fewer owners are choosing the UK’s G register when registering their aircraft. There are factors that help explain this apparent discrepancy, and steps that could be taken to reverse it, several sector staffers said...
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1 month ago | 
aviationweek.com | Angus Batey
From left: Jason Hayward, Andrew Middleton, Anna Atkins, Paul Cremer and discussion moderator Mark Jenkinson, of charter brokers Hunt & Palmer, during the discussion at the BBGA Conference. LONDON—Aviation companies are facing a battle for survival, simply because of the global imbalance between demand for skilled employees and the availability of talent coming into the sector, a cross-section of senior staffers from firms across the British business-aviation industry has warned. The...
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1 month ago | 
aviationweek.com | Angus Batey
LONDON–Business aviation professionals have been talking seriously for some time about the role that forthcoming electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft may play in the sector and thinking about how they might be integrated into operations. But relatively little attention has been...
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1 month ago | 
aviationweek.com | Angus Batey
Delray Dobbins (left), Greg Norwood of GE Aerospace, and The Jet Business founder Steve Varsano, during a panel discussion at the CJI London conference in February. An overabundance of caution may be scuppering some business aircraft sales and even, on occasion, leading to aircraft being grounded, according to a series of speakers during the Corporate Jet Investor conference held here in February. The problem arises when the buyer’s need for reassurance prompts...
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2 months ago | 
thequietus.com | John Doran |Angus Batey
Let’s get this said right at the start. There’s a reason discussion of 2Pac tends to avoid detailed re-investigation of his records and remains almost exclusively devoted to what he means, what his legacy may be, what he stood for and has come to stand for, his status as hip hop’s James Dean, the elaborate theories about his murder or the even more contrived fictions around his supposed faked death and hidden earthbound afterlife.
