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AIRPORT MANAGEMENT

Ontario | February 25, 2022

he Ontario International Airport Authority Board of Airport Commissioners today approved a budget revision to reduce landing fees and other airline costs to make the Southern California airport even more attractive to passenger and cargo air carriers. The reduced charges are retroactive to January 1. The new landing fee rate is $1.60 per 1,000 pounds of landed weight, down 8.3 percent from $1.71. The terminal rental rate is reduced 19.5 percent to $80 per square foot per year from...

COMMERCIAL AVIATION

0-G Launch | February 04, 2022

0-G Launch, a Washington DC-based provider of the Space Jet™ aircraft for microgravity services and horizontal rocket air-launch, and Global Aviation Ventures (GAV), a firm with extensive expertise in the growth, development, funding and exit of startups in the aviation, aerospace and defense sectors, announce the signature of their agreement to join forces on deploying a global fleet of specialized aircraft to provide much-needed services to the fast-growing Space economy, which is slated...

BUSINESS AVIATION

Embraer | December 30, 2021

BAE Systems and Embraer Defense & Security have announced plans to embark on a joint study to explore the development of Eve's electric Vertical Take Off and Landing (eVTOL) vehicle for the defence and security market. The joint study builds on Eve's development for the urban air mobility market and will look at how the aircraft could provide cost-effective, sustainable and adaptable capability as a defence variant. Engineers from BAE Systems' ...

Airbus | September 21, 2020

To celebrate zero emissions day 2020, Airbus has revealed three concept aircraft, codenamed ZEROe. These hydrogen-powered planes would be the first to produce zero emissions in flight and could revolutionize air transport for the future. Here’s what you need to know. European planemaker Airbus has unveiled three concepts for aircraft that could fly with zero emissions. These commercial planes are designed to fill every niche in the commercial aviation sector, and the planemaker says...