Charter broker Air Partner has begun providing a worldwide executive jet service specifically for British Airways passengers. The new business will complement BA's flight network, the airline said, enabling customers to charter an aircraft onto their final destination, wherever that may be. The company claims that booking a business jet is as ``easy as renting a car.'' Four categories of aircraft -- turboprops and small, medium and heavy jets -- are available at daily rates for a block of miles to keep pricing simple.

SkyAir TimeJet, a fractional leasing program operating five Pilatus PC-12s, is up and running in Switzerland. The company claims 14 customers and plans to take delivery of another pair of the single-engine turboprops in 2002 to meet expected demand.The man behind SkyAir TimeJet is Juerg Fleischmann, who is also founder and CEO of Lions Air, a charter outfit based in Zurich. He said the new fractional ``is designed for small and medium-size companies that wish to avoid busy international airports and make use of over 2,000 airfields across Europe.''

Blue Fox Executive Airlines is due to start a scheduled one-class ``business first'' service from the United Kingdom to New York JFK in March 2002. Operating twice-daily service out of its own terminal at London Stansted Airport, the airline is to fly three Boeing 767-300ERs with just 138 ``guests'' (as they are to be known) aboard an aircraft, which can accommodate a maximum of 298 seats.