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CJI Quarterly cover story: Wheels Up’s way to Wall Street
Mike Stones
25th May 2021, 11:13
Wheels Up’s journey from its 2013 launch to its forthcoming listing on the New York Stock Exchange is the cover story in the latest edition of Corporate Jet Investor Quarterly (CJIQ).
Our 12-page profile recounts how Kenny Dichter, founder and CEO, launched the company eight years ago with an order for 105 King Air 350i aircraft valued at $788m. Guided by the principle that
“Booking a private jet should be as easy as booking a car with Uber or booking a home with Airbnb,” Dichter built a team of key industry insiders to prepare Wheels Up for the growth that has placed it on the brink of its Wall Street listing.
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The plane that time forgot – but not its many fans
Two gents in business suits, sporting brief cases and fedora hats, stroll nonchalantly away from a V-Tail Beechcraft Bonanza. We are looking at an advert for the first Model 35 Bonanza dated May 1947. The advertising copy reads:
“You save … Man power, man hours, money with a company-owned Beechcraft Bonanza.”
Three quarters of a century later, a new Bonanza – the G36 75th anniversary edition, loaded with Garmin avionics – is rolling off the production lines in Wichita. So, what gives the design its extraordinary longevity? And what current business aircraft designs will be still flying in 2096? For Lou Seno, chairman of JSSI, the first answer, at least, is simple.
Dassault: Supply chain headaches
20th April 2021, 1:36
Logistical worries over maintaining supply chains has been the biggest challenge for Dassault Aviation this year, as it launched and began testing the Falcon 6X Jean Kayanakis, senior vice president, Falcon Customer Service & Service Center Network told Corporate Jet Investor.
Kayanakis said supply chains are hard to manage in the best of times. “If we had one concern a year ago, it had to do with the supply chain. At the outset of the Covid-19 crisis, no one knew what the broader industrial effects would be. Our supply chain stretches across hundreds of suppliers on multiple continents.”