British European (BE) plans to sell its four Bombardier CRJ200 regional jets and acquire four more Dash 8 Q400 turboprops. This move, which will bring its total fleet of Dash 8 Q400s to eight, comes as a result of a major boardroom re-shuffle and aircraft fleet review. The company remains committed to larger RJs, however, and said it finalized negotiations with BAE Systems/Avro for 12 RJXs in late June, with options for eight more. The RJXs will replace the airline's BAe 146s one-for-one as the new aircraft come online from spring 2002.

``Expressions of interest'' to build and operate the new Athens International Airport's FBO are closed, and ``requests for proposal'' are to be submitted by August. Sparta FBO Project Manager Kyriakos Papathanassiou declined to provide a short list of the bidders, saying the information is ``commercially sensitive.''

Business aircraft movements at England's Farnborough Airport were up 20 percent in the first three months of this year and total corporate movements are forecast to hit 17,000 by year-end. That accounting comes from Len Rayment, vice president operations at TAG Aviation, Farnborough, who added ``We are seeing new names every week. I haven't checked if we have lost other regulars but our market share in the U.K. is definitely going up, with TAG Farnborough taking business away from Heathrow and Luton.''