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The Sterling Group | March 03, 2022

The Sterling Group ("Sterling"), an operationally-focused middle market private equity firm, is pleased to announce the acquisition of West Star Aviation, LLC ("West Star") from Norwest Equity Partners. West Star is a provider of maintenance, repair, and overhaul ("MRO") services to the business aviation industry providing maintenance, modification, and other services to aviation customers. West Star provides services at four primary locations in East Alton, Illinoi...

United Airlines | August 27, 2020

United Airlines is preparing for the biggest pilot furloughs of its history after announcing on Thursday the need to cut 2,850 pilot jobs this year, or about 21% of the total, without further U.S. government aid. Airlines, reeling from the devastating impact of the novel coronavirus pandemic on air travel, have asked the U.S. government for another $25 billion to cover employee payroll through March. The first tranche, which banned any job cuts until Oct. 1, expires at the end of Septembe...

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GrandView Aviation | August 09, 2022

GrandView Aviation, a leading private aviation charter operator earlier this year partnered with Corporate Angel Network to provide free flights to cancer patients (and family members and caregivers) who need to travel to and from treatment. Every week, GrandView gives CAN access to empty leg flights that arise in hopes to match a flight with a patient's treatment travel needs. Corporate Angel Network is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to help cancer patien...

Aviation International News | March 16, 2020

Stellar Labs, developer of the Stellar flight operations platform, and aviation management solutions provider FL3XX have partnered “to solve the operational and business challenges faced by charter operators, brokers, and corporate flight departments.” The companies announced the partnerships at last week’s NBAA Schedulers and Dispatchers Conference. Under the agreement between the two companies, FL3XX’s more than 50 customers will be able to use the Stellar Marketplace t...