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Jets.com adds Argus Registered Broker to credentials

May 10, 2021May 10, 2021by Doug Gollan

After last week’s announcement that Jets.com had become a Wyvern Certified Broker, the jet card seller has become an Argus Registered Broker

New York-based jet card provider Jets.com has become an Argus Registered Broker. It follows last week’s announcement that it had become the first U.S. Wyvern Certified Broker.

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COVID-19 raises illegal charter concerns a year after Sala’s deadly plane crash

July 27, 2020July 27, 2020by Doug Gollan

As private jet travel attracts price-sensitive newcomers, illegal charters with unqualified pilots and aircraft are creating new dangers

“We’ve just got done with a case..The PIC (Pilot-in-Charge) was not typed in the aircraft and the SIC (Second Officer-in-Charge) was a student pilot with less than 50 hours. That’s one of the most unsafe things I’ve seen. This stuff goes on. It happens.”

– FAA Inspector

Back in 2016, I was visiting the headquarters of Jet Linx Aviation in Omaha, Nebraska. Walking with its CEO Jamie Walker between a series of meetings, he suggested I write about illegal charters. He said it was a subject he didn’t think was getting enough attention.

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Kobe Bryant helicopter firm, Private Jet charter operator fined in April for illegal flights, gain CARES Act funding

May 18, 2020February 21, 2021by Doug Gollan28 Comments

Island Express Helicopters and Jem Air Holdings received $603,838 and $158,775, respectively, from the Treasury Department

Island Express Helicopters, the operator of the charter S-76 helicopter flight that killed NBA legend Kobe Bryant and eight others, including the pilot, on Jan. 26, 2020, received $603,838 in funding as part of the CARES Act, according to a list published over the weekend by the Department of the Treasury.

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