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The VIP Seat: Weekly Private Aviation News — 88 episodes

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1

Flexjet's Exclusive Gulfstreams, AirSprint Sells to PE & Jet Engine Lawsuits Heat Up

2

Air Force One Retires, NetJets Faces Tragedy & AirShare Goes Viral

3

Steve Varsano Joins Flexjet, FlyHouse Reshuffles & AeroVanti Founder Convicted

4

Kenny Dichter on Billion Dollar Revenues, Leaving Wheels Up, and Keeping it REAL

5

Biffle Crash Litigation: Pilot Liability, LLCs & Aviation Insurance Gaps

6

Berkshire’s Delta Stake, Wheels Up’s Future

7

Mamdani coming for private jets? FAA Cuts Controller Positions

8

ATG Not Dead Yet, FlyExclusive’s “Positive” EBITDA & Apocalypse Private Jet Tracker

9

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

10

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

11

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

12

Jet Fuel, War Risk, and a Family Business

13

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

14

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

15

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

16

How Wall Street Sees Business Aviation with Nick Fazioli, Jefferies

17

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

18

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

19

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

20

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

21

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

22

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

23

Corporate Jets Brace For Bombardier Decertification Threat

24

Private Jet Deicing Challenges, Billion-Dollar Resolutions

25

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

26

NASA Flying Perks, Business Jets have a Record Year

27

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

28

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

29

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

30

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

31

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

32

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

33

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

34

Private Jet Bans, California Jet A, and ATC Chaos

35

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

36

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

37

NBAA Megashow

38

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

39

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

40

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

41

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

42

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

43

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

44

Is private aviation ready to transact in stable coin?

45

Private Jet ICE Deportations and George J. Priester Acquisitions

46

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

47

Debunking NY Times Private Jet Myths, NYPD Aviation Under Investigation

48

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

49

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

50

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

51

Illegal Seat Sharing in BizAv, Soaring Tariffs Are Back

52

Part 135 Certificates are Too Expensive, Massive Mystery Bombardier Buyer

53

Big Beautiful Depreciation, Dassault Falcon Making Jets in India

54

Ranting about pilot mental healthcare, Iranian VS Israel Air Forces

55

Acquisitions, Missed Deadlines, and Supersonic Dreams

56

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

57

Trump’s Qatari Jet & Kenny Ditcher is back

58

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

59

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

60

Aircraft Bonus Depreciation; will HondaJet upset the light jet market

61

Is flying safe? Yes, but...

62

The $2 Billion Jet Card Problem

63

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

64

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

65

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

66

LA Firefighting Drone Strike; eVTOLs Generating 100+ MPH Winds

67

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

68

FAA Administrator Rumors; Supply Chain Isn't Really Improving

69

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

70

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

71

Trump tariff impacts on private jets; NYC Heliport Closures

72

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

73

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

74

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

75

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

76

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

77

Wheels Up Buys GrandView Fleet; FAA Issues Rules for eVTOLs

78

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

79

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

80

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

81

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

82

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

83

Overtime Sep 12, 2024: Private Jet Empty Leg Flights

84

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

85

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

86

Burning Man Private Flights; Starbucks CEO private jet outrage

87

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

88

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