Astronautics Corporation of America

Nashville | August 17, 2020

Last week, on August 12, Nashville International Airport became the first in Tennessee and thirty-fifth in the nation to debut ‘Clear’ biometric identity scanners, providing passengers with an expedited, touchless security screening option. The Clear kiosks utilize iris or fingerprint scans to verify users’ identities and flight information. Instead of waiting in line to present an identification card and boarding documents, customers can go to a Clear kiosk, which sligh...

Air Transport

PRnewswire | March 31, 2023

SpeedBird, a leading luxury private air travel provider based in Orlando, Florida, is excited to announce its forthcoming merger with Northern Jet Management (NJM), the Midwest's largest and most trusted provider of private jet services. This move brings together two talented teams and increases the combined company's fleet to accelerate expansion to more destinations throughout the United States and internationally. The pending transaction, which will close in second quarter 2023,...

Aviation Technology

EmbraerX | February 03, 2022

EmbraerX (B3: EMBR3,NYSE: ERJ) signed an agreement with Jet Flight Service (JFS), a global MRO service provider headquartered in Russia certified by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and Russian Federal Agency for Air Transport (FATA). This partnership is supporting Jet Flight Service (JFS) in gaining efficiencies by onboarding their teams into Beacon's multi-sided platform. After seeing the market adopt Beacon across Central and Eastern Europe, JFS decided to j...

Business Aviation

LCI | October 11, 2021

LCI, a leading aviation leasing company, today announced that its parent company, the Libra Group, has acquired the remaining minority interest in LCI Helicopters held by global investment firm KKR. We would like to thank the KKR team for their exemplary support these last seven years, helping LCI grow across sectors including offshore wind power and search and rescue. We are equally delighted that Libra Group has returned to full ownership. It has always been a valu...