Angus Batey

4 weeks 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...