Aviation Industry News
Business aviation shows encouraging signs of growth
Monday, 12, April 2010
Malta witnessed growth in business aviation movements in February following industry trends across the European Union, statistics gathered by Eurocontrol, the European organisation for the safety of air navigation, show.Encouragingly, business aviation movements so far this year are even higher than movements in February 2008, just as the economic downturn began, Stanley Bugeja, who has just been elected to the board of governors of the Brussels-based European Business Aviation Association, told The Sunday Times.
Mr Bugeja, managing director of Malta-based DC Aviation, is the president of the six-month-old Malta Business Aviation Association. His new appointment is particularly significant and well-timed: Malta's business aviation industry is in the throes of a carefully planned evolution, with the establishment of an aircraft register for private aircraft and the recent publication of a new, wide-ranging bill.
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