Developments in the airborne connectivity space are accelerating, and for business aviation and even owner-flown aircraft, product choices are expanding. While prices haven’t dropped, the advent of new low-earth-orbit (LEO) networks such as SpaceX’s Starlink and Eutelsat OneWeb promises to open the world of high-speed airborne internet access to more users and eventually smaller aircraft. Iridium, while it doesn’t offer the speed of Starlink and OneWeb, is also a LEO constellation.

Meanwhile, the market for higher-orbit geostationary satellite communications (satcom) remains strong. And for aircraft that don’t fly outside the U.S., the two air-to-ground providers—Gogo Business Aviation and SmartSky—provide solutions to operators who don’t want to go the full satcom route.

There’s plenty of space for you and 17 friends to fly across the globe in the Airbus ACJ TwoTwenty bizliner. But you are going to want to do that in comfort and style, which is why the manufacturer and its interiors partner Comlux like to present all the options clearly to owners so that they can make informed choices and get to travel their way.

BJT takes you along on a tour of a TwoTwenty cabin while the aircraft was on display at EBACE 2024 in Geneva.

Airbus sees hydrogen as the pathway toward its goal of bringing a zero-emissions commercial airliner to market in the next decade, a key executive said.

But that executive, Glenn Llewellyn, v-p of zero-emissions technology for Airbus, agreed with other panelists during an FIA Connect 2020 webinar titled “Clean Flight – Path to Zero Emissions Aircraft” that hydrogen ranks among multiple approaches that will be necessary to reach their ultimate sustainability goals.

At long last on March 30, Gulfstream Aerospace was able to celebrate the certification of its new flagship, the ultra-long-range, ultra-high-tech G700, after an approval process that took at least two years longer than the Savannah, Georgia airframer anticipated.

From the outside, certification programs are always a bit of a moving target. But long gone are the days of Cessna Aircraft, now Textron Aviation, unveiling a follow-on aircraft and having it certified and in the market a few years later.

Business Jet Traveler contributor Chris Allsop went out to find five places where you can find interesting predators. But you won't find the trite lions, tigers, and bears on this list!

Instead, learn where you can kiss socialized wolves and join the pack, approach polar bears on foot, free dive with orcas, feed hyenas up close, and track wolf packs.

German start-up ERC-System on Wednesday unveiled plans to develop an eVTOL aircraft specifically designed for emergency medical flights. The company launched its Charlie aircraft during an event in Munich attended by Bavarian health minister Judith Gerlach.

Charlie will have a payload of 450 kilograms (990 pounds), which ERC said will be sufficient to carry a pilot, doctor, and patient, as well as medical equipment. The aircraft, which features a fixed wing and a boom tail, is expected to have a range of 190 kilometers (103 nm) and fly at up to 180 kilometers per hour (97 knots).

Artificial intelligence (AI) looms large over business aviation’s future, although for now most in the industry have fairly limited visibility as to how life-changing this will be. Early indicators are that the first applications will illuminate a path forward in which, hopefully, humans are still able to do what they do best, only with greater efficiency from autonomous support.

MySky is tapping AI as part of its quest to help aircraft operators exercise effective revenue management, while also keeping close control of spending. “We’re not looking to replace humans, but to empower them with a level of automation for repetitive tasks like capturing invoices,” MySky co-founder Chris Marich told AIN. “In our spend system, we can use the AI technology to automatically capture and digitize information so that the operators can focus on producing the final quote and on the relationship with the owner and the charter customer.”

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