EBACE Show News - May 20, 2008 - (Page 4) EBACE 2008 These Are the People Who Make It All Happen In today’s and the next two issues B/CA Show News presents its annual Top 10 Leaders of European Business Aviation. We pick the movers and shakers, the promoters, those who are helping create demand for business aviation through clever marketing, innovation or helping to create Europe’s infrastructure. This year’s Top 10 (whom we don’t rank—we list them alphabetically), are: • José Ramón Barriocanal, general manager for private aviation for Spain’s Learjet sales vp Mike Fahey, ExecuJet/Grob CEO Niall Olver, Gestair, on a $285 million drive to dou- Bombardier svp sales Bob Horner, ExecuJet sales director Andy Hoy ble its size by 2010, growing its fleet from celebrate deal by which Grob will assist in Learjet 85 development. 28 to 38 aircraft, and taking its FBO chain outside DC Aviation, which is growing its current fleet of Spain for the first time (Wednesday). 29 aircraft to more than 40 by year-end (Thursday). • Martin Bauer, CEO of Nuremburg’s Aero-Dienst, • Marwan Khalek, CEO of Gama, which earlier this the 59-year-old holder of Germany’s second- year doubled in size by acquiring PrivatAir Inc, the oldest operator’s certificate. Aero-Dienst U.S. subsidiary of the Swiss corporate is modernizing and has recently added a aviation charter group (Wednesday). Falcon 900EX and a new Learjet 45XR to • Peter Leiman and Cameron Ogden of its owned and managed fleet (Wednesday). the UK’s Blink, who are bringing air taxi service to Europe with a planned fleet of • Mark Booth of NetJets Europe, credited 45 Cessna Mustangs (page 74). by Warren Buffett with bringing the longstruggling operation (it lost $212 million • Niall Olver, CEO of both the ExecuJet over ten years) to profitability. NetJets Europe oper- Aviation Group and Grob Aerospace. Zurich-based ates 135 aircraft, Buffett said in his annual letter to ExecuJet is active in Scandinavia, Australia, the Berkshire Hathaway shareholders (page 20). Middle East, South Africa, Singapore and • Peter Edwards, CEO of Jet Aviation, which has Europe. Grob is not only developing as new busiemerged as the first westerner to open FBO and ness jet, the SPn, but is developing the composite maintenance sites in Moscow and Beijing (Wednesday). structures and is expected to build the first ser• George Galanopoulos, managing director of val dozen of Bombardier’s new Learjet 85 (page 56). London Executive Aviation, which is likewise begin- • Kurosh Tehranchian, CEO of London-based ning with Mustangs, but plans to add a Lineage 1000 widebody specialist Ocean Sky Aviation, which is and a Gulfstream G450 next year (Wednesday). expanding both its FBO chain and its managed and • D i e t e r H e i n e n , p r e s i d e n t a n d C E O o f charter aircraft fleet (Wednesday). AVIATION WEEK President Tom Henricks Publisher Greg Hamilton Editor-In-Chief John Morris Morrisoff@aol.com Senior Editors Rich Piellisch Mike Jerram News Editor Scot Greenan Copy Editor Elyse Moody Writers Fred George, Robert Hewson, George Larson, Paul Jackson, Robert Wall Senior Art Director & IT Manager Kirk Fetzer Art Directors Maureen Spuhler, Ariel de Man Photographer Mike Vines Digital Photo Fran Vines Newsroom Manager Mara Morris VP Sales Mark A. Flinn mark_flinn@aviationnow.com MD Europe, Middle East, Africa Iain Blackhall Europe Romaine Meyer romaine_meyer@mcgraw-hill.com Germany/Switzerland Robert Rottmeier rottm@mcgraw-hill.com E. Europe/CIS/India/Italy Vittorio Rossi Prudente prudente@mcgraw-hill.com UK Mike Elmes mike.elmes@aerospacemedia.co.uk Business Manager Sean Beers Operations Manager Erving Dockery AVIATION WEEK B/CA Show News is published at EBACE by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2 Penn Plaza, New York, NY 10121 UK Government To Tax Aircraft, Not Passengers The cash-strapped British government is changing its airline passenger tax to an aircraft tax in November 2009. According to a UK national newspaper, the UK Treasury plans to add business aircraft to this legislation, which could mean that a one-way long haul business jet flight across the Atlantic could cost around $2,000 in added charges. The new tax will be calculated on flight duration and the aircraft type’s specific emissions data. There is no current UK passenger tax on business aircraft flights. The government currently raises $4 billion annually from the existing airline passenger tax, but this is expected to swell to $5 billion by the switch to airliner aircraft taxation and the inclusion of a 4 This UK-registered Legacy 600 could be impacted. business aircraft tax. According to our sister publication Aviation Week and Space Technology, news of the new airliner tax has already infuriated the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA), which claims, probably justifiably, that it is “a way to raise taxes without providing a coherent strategy for addressing its environmental objectives”. The British government claims that part of the reason for the switch is to stop some airlines from flying uneconomic legs into and out of the UK to maintain their landing slot rights. —Mike Vines AVIATION WEEK also publishes Aviation Week & Space Technology, Aviation Daily, Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, Business and Commercial Aviation, Overhaul & Maintenance, The Weekly of Business Aviation, Defense Technology International, and the World Aerospace Database including World Aviation Directory. Material in this publication may not be reproduced in any form without permission. Printing & Distribution Managed by: Mike and Rachel Meadows Communisis © Copyright 2008 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Library of Congress ISSN 1092-6151 Show News at EBACE On site Newsroom: Room 71004 Tel: +41 (0) 22 761 2283 May 20, 2008 www.aviationweek.com/shownews http://www.aviationweek.com/shownews
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