For avid flyers, who wants to sit in coach, and have only 6 inches of leg room and your knees stuck under your chin?

Over the last decade, aggressive competition by the airlines have launched amenities both at the top end of the spectrum and trickling down into business class and even lowly coach. Full article

As commercial airline passengers face another summer of crowds, delays and missed connections, the owners of private jets can look forward to federal regulators’ help in making their flights more comfortable and stylish.

What does the FAA have plans to do? Full article

Visit the factory of Eclipse Aviation, as I did in May, and you’ll see how large a bet founder and CEO Vern Raburn has made on very light jets. Full article

A new civil plane, the “Superjet” will be manufactured by the former Soviet Union’s largest warplane maker Sukhoi. It’s expected to have 78-98 seats. President Putin’s goal is to revive the Russian aviation industry after it collapsed since the fall of the Soviet Union. Full article

There’s a saying in the private jet business: If you have to ask the price, you can’t afford it. But it’s possible to charter your own jet without spending a fortune. Full article

If you think spending a few hundred dollars for a worn-out leather seat, bottled water, and a few extra inches of legroom is luxury, then you don’t know what luxury is. Pimp my plane is an expression heard more and more these days as wealthy millionaires are adding luxury amenities to their private, luxury jets. Read the Pimp My Plane article here –  Full article

U.S. air travel is a miserable experience–bad service, long lines, grumpy flight crews and groping security agents. It’s an endurance test, an endless stream of delays and discomforts with little resolution in sight. Full article

What does a billionaire do when having a private jet becomes so affordable that mere millionaires can swing the cost? Obviously, he trades up.  Too many private jets to choose from. Maybe to a Boeing 747-8, or possibly  to a Airbus 380–costing $280 million and $300 million, respectively.

The waiting eyes of the aviation world was anxiously fixed on Boeing, in the emerald city of Seattle. The luxury jet Dreamliner is a savior.

When the U.S. aircraft giant unveiled its 787 Dreamliner – the “green” passenger jet it hopes will revolutionize air travel for years to come, and thwart its main competitors. Full article

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