How you handle your aviation assets, especially when they are legally placed in service, can considerably affect your finances and taxes. How can you structure your aircraft transactions and flight operations to solidify your bonus depreciation position in 2023? Attorneys Dan Feldman and David Shannon of Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith LLP discuss this and more in “Maximize Your Benefit, Minimize Your Risk.”

Without people, airplanes don't fly. Owning, maintaining, and managing business aircraft is complex, and most focus on physical assets, technology, and financing. But the “human capital” – the people who fly, maintain, and service the aircraft – are just as important. Listen as Jeff Agur and Don Henderson discuss how bizav’s success depends on how well the people aboard the aircraft and on the ground are chosen, how they are trained, and how effectively they communicate with each other in Human Capital Gains.

When there’s more to be said than space and copy deadlines allow, you can rely on the Business Aviation Advisor “Above and Beyond” podcast series to get you the information you need, enabling you to make the most of your aviation investments.


Empty seats on a business jet are expensive! How can you optimize your operational efficiency while ensuring your safety and that of your crew, passengers, and aircraft? Matt Liotta, co-founder and CEO of Volato, a fractional ownership aircraft company focused on flights with a small passenger load, talks with Schedaero’s Genesis Dela Cruz about how he uses their flight management system to keep track of each airplane, flight, and every crewmember, to make sure that everyone has quick access to all the data they need for safe and profitable operations. Find out what you need to know about the challenges of communication among the many facets of your aircraft operations, to minimize costs and maximize convenience, in Optimizing Your Flight Operations.

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The aircraft buyer’s market is experiencing a very unusual period in which older used aircraft are increasing in value. How can you capitalize on that? And why do you need a team of experts to help you purchase your aircraft?

In Smells Like Team Spirit, aircraft financing expert Shelly Svoren of Infinite Branches and aviation attorney Michelle Wade of Jetstream Aviation Law, discuss how the members of deal teams work with each other’s strengths to best know their roles in the purchasing and approval process;

It’s no fantasy. The plan is to update and refurbish twenty-nine airports – and build an entirely new hub, in a newly created region, the size of Belgium, one dedicated to attracting international business development and tourism!

That plan was detailed in Saudi Arabia’s 2022 Future of Aviation Forum, held in Riyadh this past May. How might the Kingdom’s plan to upgrade its aviation infrastructure affect your travel to the region? In 1001 Arabian Flights, listen as H. Delano Roosevelt of the US Saudi Business Council, and Curt Castagna of Aeroplex Partners discuss their Forum panel and the Kingdom’s plans to upgrade its aviation infrastructure to support business development.

Commercial airlines have created their own brand of “cancel culture” of late, unable to crew hundreds of Boeing and Airbus aircraft due to the pilot and staff shortage.

Curiously, demand for those aircraft only has increased – because if the airlines can’t use them, business aircraft owners can! In fact the median value of these aircraft has risen 32% since June 2021, according to market analyst Jefferies using Amstat industry data. 

In More Room At The Top, King Aerospace’s Jerry and Jarid King discuss why that makes proper completion, maintenance, and regular refurbishment of VVIP airline-caliber aircraft more critical than ever, in order to preserve their asset value, as well as their operational capabilities. 

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Collecting data is important. Examining it is fascinating. But putting it to work is where the rubber meets the road – or in the case of aviation – when it’s applied to improving operational safety. 

In Digital Data Tailored Training, FlightSafety International’s Richard Meikle and GE Digital’s Joel Klooster discuss how FlightSafety is harnessing GE Digital’s C-FOQA data to tailor simulator training not just to your specific aircraft make/model, but also to your specific flight operations – to help improve your safety and travel experience from runway departure to arrival.

Travelers like you now expect uninterrupted connectivity, on the ground and in the air. That requirement is not negotiable, and the demand for faster and faster downloads keeps growing. And that necessitates better onboard equipment offering a wider broadband – but which one is faster and more reliable connectivity - Ka or Ku?

In Bands On The Run, James Person, ViaSat’s Director of Business Development and Strategy, explains the differences, the equipment required, and what they mean to you and your passengers’ inflight business communications and entertainment experiences.

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When it comes to obscure abbreviations, social media has nothing on aviation. Our industry has been immersed in acronyms since the dawn of radio communications.

But IMHO, sometimes it’s important for the rest of us – particularly business aircraft owners and charterers – to know what letters like C-FOQA and FDM stand for.

In C-FOQA Is No Time for FOMO, National Transportation Safety Board Vice Chairman Bruce Landsberg, and Bob Rufli, Vice President, Flight Operations for Pentastar Aviation and Chairman of the Air Charter Safety Foundation, explain how Corporate Flight Operations Quality Assurance and Flight Data Monitoring will help improve your aircraft’s safety, dispatch reliability, and operating cost.

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“Top-down” isn’t just for convertibles anymore – it’s for business aviation safety, too.

Insuring aviation safety starts at the top, with your uncompromising commitment to continuing safety education throughout your flight operation. That keeps your personnel appraised of the latest and best in evolving safety management systems.

Listen to Air Charter Safety Foundation president Bryan Burns and chairman Robert Rufli as they describe what your aviation manager will learn at the 2022 ACSF Safety Symposium this April 5 & 6. This annual educational forum will be held at the Embry-Riddle Aviation University campus in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Safety experts will discuss current and emerging challenges, as well as how to create safety resources, tools, and programs needed to ensure your flight safety.

When there’s more to be said than space and copy deadlines allow, you can rely on the Business Aviation Advisor “Above and Beyond” podcast series to get you the information you need, enabling you to make the most of your aviation investments.