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The VIP Seat: Weekly Private Aviation News — 80 episodes

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1

Aviation News Mega Show: Spirit Collapse, Piaggio Return, Wifi Wars

2

Hop-A-Jet on Loss, Leadership & the Challenger 604 Accident

3

Bond Goes Big, Wheels Up Slides, and EBACE Gets Canceled

4

Jet Fuel, War Risk, and a Family Business

5

Helicopter Scams on Everest, Atlantic Aviation’s $10 Billion Valuation

6

Private Jet Summer: G650 Values Rise, World Cup Chaos Ahead

7

Falcon 10X Rolls Out While AOPA Faces a Full-Blown Governance Crisis

8

How Wall Street Sees Business Aviation with Nick Fazioli, Jefferies

9

Jet Fuel Price Shock, Priester’s Buying Spree, AirX Earnings and Supernal Cuts

10

From 43,000 FT: Starlink Cracks Down, FlyHouse’s $500M Valuation

11

What Wheels Up’s Adjusted EBITDA Actually Means and Why the FAA’s 135 List Problems Matter

12

VistaJet Fleet Strategy, Guinea Pilot Arrests & Hop-A-Jet Lawsuit

13

AOPA CEO is Out, Skyryse’s $300M Raise, and Super Bowl Private Jet Surge

14

Corporate Aviation Turbulence: Tariffs, FAA Shutdown, Global M&A

15

Corporate Jets Brace For Bombardier Decertification Threat

16

Private Jet Deicing Challenges, Billion-Dollar Resolutions

17

600 Private Planes Deregistered, SACI Fallout and Telluride’s No-Margin Runway

18

NASA Flying Perks, Business Jets have a Record Year

19

Autoland, Autocrats, and Aviation Chaos: Business Aviation Kicks Off 2026

20

Season 2 Finale - This year's trends, biggest winners and losers in the private jet business

21

$300M Data Center, Netjets and Starlink Unlikely Fellows, and CSX Flight Dept. Says Goodbye

22

Chinese Private Jets, First Global 8000 Delivered, Netjets Customer Skips Bills

23

Private Jets, Solar Flares, And Rogue Drones: Why Aviation Headlines Keep Getting It Wrong

24

Pilatus Tariffs Nixed, Airport Closure Battles, the end of the Bonanza, Joby/ARCHER espionage

25

Hydrogen Helicopter Takes Off, Air Travel Back On Track and Freeman Goes FBO Shopping

26

Private Jet Bans, California Jet A, and ATC Chaos

27

Kenn Ricci on Flexjet vs. Honeywell: Inside the Billion-Dollar Battle Reshaping Private Aviation

28

Electric Aviation Shake-Ups, Hawker Fleet Warnings, and Sikorsky’s Pilotless Future

29

NBAA Megashow

30

Bankruptcies & PE Investment in Private Aviation: NBAA-BACE 2025 Mega Show

31

Private Jet Shake-Ups: Hop-A-Jet Lawsuit, Gulfstream’s New G300, and the Return of SyberJet

32

Private Jet News: Flexjet's 300-Aircraft Order and Industry Shifts in Aviation

33

We like the EPIC 1000, Freakonomics Blaming Business Aviation for Blocking ATC Privatization

34

Mental Health in Aviation Act, SpaceX EchoStar Deal Could impact Private Jet Wifi

35

Aero Ventures, Zillow for private jets? Daher's flight data program

36

Is private aviation ready to transact in stable coin?

37

Private Jet ICE Deportations and George J. Priester Acquisitions

38

From Snoop Dogg’s Jet to Eve’s $230M Raise: Private Aviation in the Headlines

39

Debunking NY Times Private Jet Myths, NYPD Aviation Under Investigation

40

Joby Aviation Buys Blade, Paris Hilton's Birthday Gulfstream 450

41

No EU Aircraft Tariffs: Latest Tech and Regulatory Changes in Private Aviation

42

Flexjet gets largest PE investment ever, Mr. Beast Jet Challenge Fails

43

Illegal Seat Sharing in BizAv, Soaring Tariffs Are Back

44

Part 135 Certificates are Too Expensive, Massive Mystery Bombardier Buyer

45

Big Beautiful Depreciation, Dassault Falcon Making Jets in India

46

Ranting about pilot mental healthcare, Iranian VS Israel Air Forces

47

Acquisitions, Missed Deadlines, and Supersonic Dreams

48

Puff Daddy's Jet Charters, Jared Issacman's NASA Nomination Pulled

49

Trump’s Qatari Jet & Kenny Ditcher is back

50

Tracking gas from space; where should aviation spend marketing dollars?

51

15,000 Near Misses at DCA; the clean sheet Robinson 88

52

Aircraft Bonus Depreciation; will HondaJet upset the light jet market

53

Is flying safe? Yes, but...

54

The $2 Billion Jet Card Problem

55

A mushroom-fueled passenger arrest; Trump tariff impacts on aviation

56

M&A Trends in Aviation; should the TSA be privatized?

57

Executive Orders Affect Business Jets; New TSA Requirements for JSX, Part 380 Operators

58

LA Firefighting Drone Strike; eVTOLs Generating 100+ MPH Winds

59

Trump Flight Delays in 2025; No Surprises Billing Act Two Years Later

60

FAA Administrator Rumors; Supply Chain Isn't Really Improving

61

No, the drones are not invading; Jet A fuel indicators for 2025

62

Crypto-mining in aircraft; jail time for private jet protestors

63

Trump tariff impacts on private jets; NYC Heliport Closures

64

Thanksgiving flight delays; laser alerts in restricted D.C. airspace

65

Diddy's Private Jet is For Sale, and Redditors are now tracking Elon Musk

66

Post-Election Aviation News and Corporate Jet Investor - Special Edition

67

Gulfstream Installing Starlink Fleetwide and Virtual Reality Becomes a Reality in Flight Training

68

Infamous Jet Tracker Jack Sweeney Banned from Meta; Boeing is Getting Out of Space

69

Wheels Up Buys GrandView Fleet; FAA Issues Rules for eVTOLs

70

Hello, this is your pilot sleeping; Vistajet continues the PR battle

71

New FAA Interpretation Threatens BizAv; Civilian Rescue Teams and Feds Feud

72

Elon Musk calls for FAA Administrator to Resign; Private Jets and Helicopters Assist Helene Victims

73

$116 Million Helicopter Settlement; Electronic Warfare Impacting Business Jet Flights

74

Employees Sue Volato and it's Superyacht Shopping Season; September 19th, 2024

75

Overtime Sep 12, 2024: Private Jet Empty Leg Flights

76

Private jet flights still struggling; the Coast Guard is in charge of a flying boat?

77

College Athletes Make Bank on BizAv Deals and Someone tries to steal a GIV

78

Burning Man Private Flights; Starbucks CEO private jet outrage

79

The G400 Flies, and an inflight Wifi provider goes out of business

80

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