This year’s Annual Conference of the British Business and General Aviation Association (BBGA) took place on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, at the Leonardo Royal Hotel - London City. The aim of the conference was to discuss pertinent subjects in UK business aviation and to hold the Association's annual meeting.
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The European Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition (EBACE 2024), which was organized jointly by the Brussels-based European Business Aviation Association (EBAA) and Washington, D.C.-based National Business Aviation Association (NBAA), took place at Geneva Airport, Switzerland, May 27 to 30, 2024. The organizers said there were more than 11,000 visitors and some 300 exhibitors, with around 50 aircraft on the static display outside - a short bus ride from the PalExpo exhibition hall.
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The 30th edition of the Aero Friedrichshafen show was held at the Messe Friedrichshafen Conference and Expo Centre at Friedrichshafen Airport in Germany, 17-20 April 2024. It had the feel of a show that is increasingly Europe’s leading ‘Business and General Aviation’ event rather than just the region’s number one attraction for the light and sport aviation aircraft community.
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We attended London Oxford Airport’s (EGTK) Media Day on May 2nd, 2024. Those clever fellows at Oxford also own London’s only full-time licensed heliport, at Battersea. This, combined with eVTOL craft such as the Lilium Jet, could soon make the link between the two quieter and more affordable than helicopters, and possibly faster and more regular. “The regulators will never have it,” you may say. OK, agreed. But if they did, Oxford would – in effect – move closer to London.
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The British Business & General Aviation Association (BBGA) held its annual conference on Thursday, March 7, 2024 in London. The BBGA has stepped up to the mark in recent years and is now leading the way in Europe with a scheme to counter the ‘bad press’ the sector often gets. It aims to promote the economic advantages of using business aviation versus the oft-reported private use which accounts for a relatively small proportion of non-scheduled flights, while setting out to explain that business aviation continues to strive to operate in a more environmentally sustainable way.
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With the focus in recent years on electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles (eVTOLS), it appears that the helicopter industry is facing an era of significant change and disruption. While the jury is out on how eVTOLs and helicopters (as well as unmanned aerial vehicles, UAVs) will share infrastructure both on the ground and in the air, a wider aviation sector looks and wonders how to prepare itself.
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The Isle of Man is an enigma for many people – “Do you mean the Isle of Wight,” some say, much to the irritation of those who know the island well. But when you visit, you realize what a fascinating place it is, and beautiful in a way that seems to be a cross between the English Lake District and Scotland or the far west coast of Ireland.
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The answer to the question, “Are we safe with SAF?” is a resounding, widely accepted, “Yes,” as it is approved JET A fuel (equivalent to fossil kerosene), produced using a range of non-oil feedstocks. Operators have now accepted this as fact – subject to quality control measures, of course. However, whether we can rely on SAF to deliver aviation carbon neutrality (Net Zero) by 2050, which is what aviation has committed itself to, is another question altogether.
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A recent ‘Future of Flight’ summit at the Royal Aeronautical Society in London (20-21 September 2023) highlighted the growing significance of new in-development aircraft powered electrically or by hydrogen, many of which can take off and land vertically (the so-called ‘eVTOLs’). The Future of Flight summit was opened by RAeS president, 2023-24, Kerissa Khan, who has spectacularly broken the mold of typical RAeS presidents who tend to be male (not always) and late in their career.
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The push by the European Business Aviation Association (EBAA) to better communicate the value of business aviation took another step forward last week when reps from 26 EBAA member companies that have become sector ‘ambassadors’ gathered at the London Assistance Centre of Medaire, a subsidiary of the International SOS Group that specializes in medical services for business aircraft and maritime vessels.
Read MoreFor over ten years now, with a two-year pandemic gap, the Isle of Man has held an aviation conference to bring together the business aviation community on this ancient isle in the Irish Sea. Not part of the UK or the EU (it never has been), the island is a fiercely proud part of the British Isles with its own parliament, ‘The House of Keys’/Tynwald, laws and traditions.
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When the European Union enacted a new regulation in 2017 to allow Commercial Air Transport (CAT) operations using Single Engine Turbine (SET) aircraft, many in the industry thought that at last something that had grown solidly in the United States and some other countries since the 1990s would add a new dimension in Europe, adding considerably to connectivity and boosting the economic contribution of such aircraft – produced by manufacturers such as Pilatus, Piper and Textron.
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AirVenture Oshkosh may be the world’s biggest aviation enthusiast event and fly-in but Germany’s AERO Friedrichshafen, which wrapped up on Saturday, April 22, proved which last week that it is a healthy second and even first in terms of being a pure trade show for GA and the ‘light’ end of business aviation. According to show organizer fairnamic GmbH, AERO “once again lived up to its claim of being the leading international trade show for general aviation … with over 680 exhibitors from 35 nations.”
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