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Within most of the material that has been written about the set-up of a new corporate (or even personal) flight department, the information is geared towards the needs and concerns of the Chief Pilot, Director of Aviation or Human Resources Department.

Let’s face it, acquiring and operating a business aircraft is very expensive. It can also be a highly emotional event. All too often, an executive who would never consider acquiring a company or a commercial property without first analyzing the deal from all perspectives will nevertheless succumb to the allure of a sleek private jet and make an emotional decision to purchase without conducting any detailed acquisition and operations planning.

Cautious optimism is starting to take a hold. After more than a year of stagnation, aircraft sales are recovering. Buyers and sellers are seeing eye-to-eye on prices, and lenders are stepping up with viable terms to help get deals done. This is a good time to (re)consider how you approach a corporate aircraft transaction – from the purchaser’s perspective. Call it Aircraft Purchases 101. The acquisition of an aircraft for corporate or personal use ...

Recent economic news indicates a bottoming-out of the recession, and possibly the start of a recovery. Recent prognostications by Jack Pelton at Cessna and Richard Aboulafia at Teal Group predict aviation to lag the general recovery. Best guesses are for a recovery in late-2010 with a return to sunny skies by 2012. So where does that leave future aircraft values?A current snapshot shows 15% of the active fixed wing ...

It is a pretty good bet to make if I say that most of us in the aviation industry rarely give much - if any - thought about the Jet Fuel that we fill our tanks with. Sure there are considerations of cleanliness (no water, FOD, bacteria or other contaminates), temperature (if you fill on a cold day you will get more fuel in your tanks), and price (close to half of a flight departments budget goes in payment for the fuel used). All of these ...

Let’s imagine you are preparing to fly to Europe on an important business trip. You are excited to have finally earned the privilege of traveling to, and throughout Europe in the convenience of your company’s airplane. Having flown to Europe on innumerable commercial flights in the past, you don’t think twice about getting aboard your own plane to make the same trip – ...

Last month, I shed some light on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and the effect that taxing or buying/selling emissions may have on business aviation. This month I will discuss the potential impact on our industry of these emission limits.CO2 emissions from business and general aviation in the US were estimated to be 18.2 million metric tons in 2008, based on FAA estimates of fuel consumed by aviation. This is a large number, but it represents ...

This month, Conklin & de Decker’s co-founder and president, Bill de Decker, seeks to shed some light on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and the effect that taxing or buying/selling emissions may have on business aviation. Regardless of your opinion on the subject, CO2 limits in some form have been on the horizon since Kyoto. Global Warming is a political and economic factor, as well as an environmental one… CO2 emissions are much in ...

Prior to the economic downturn, the high demand for corporate aircraft created a large secondary (or gray) market for the sale of early aircraft positions. This high demand created an easy option for someone whose new aircraft needs had changed.The historic high demand also allowed these sellers to realize substantial premiums over their original contract price. Since these economic conditions had continued for ...