John was editor of Aviation Week's ShowNews for nearly two decades. He retired in 2020. His background in business journalism before joining Aviation Week includes stints at Reuters, the American Banker daily banking newspaper and as business news editor at the Milwaukee Journal and the Cincinnati Enquirer.
A lifelong aviation enthusiast, John has been a private pilot for 34 years and won an award at EAA Oshkosh for his restoration of a vintage British Auster army spotter aircraft. He is currently building a 1920s Staaken Flitzer biplane from plans. John attended his first Farnborough Air Show in 1952, when just eight months old.
Payment is the last major pain point in the business jet charter industry. The procedures are inefficient, costly and insecure, placing unnecessary strain on brokers and operators’ cash flows, as well as giving customers insufficient protection of their payment details. But that’s about to change with the launch today of PayNode, by Avinode, the world’s largest online marketplace for buying and selling private air charter.
ATP and Sweden-based Web Manuals have joined forces to provide aircraft operators and maintenance organizations with constantly updated operating manuals as well digitized technical documents, maintenance manuals, and safety and regulatory alerts.
Elements of the design were unveiled at EBACE 2015, but they elicited doubt about the feasibility of the concept. So Lufthansa Technik has spent the past year engineering the sumptuous interior into a product.
