In Asia, fractional aircraft ownership is slow to take off, but jet charter business soars

In January 2006, when business aviation was in its infancy in Asia, Executive Jets Asia took a gamble on what it saw as a growth market, setting up shop in Singapore as the first company in the region offering fractional aircraft ownership.full article

Exec Jets Are Coming But is Asia Ready?

Financial institutions and governments in Asia have still to wake up to the great potential business aviation offers, says PRITHPAL SINGH.full article

Peak Magazine Singapore Edition, May 2007

A Boeing Business Jet with a queen-sized bed in a private stateroom, private bathrooms with full-size showers, a full-service gallery, private office and dining-cum-conference room.full article

Seletar Airport extending runway to 1,800m (The Business Times 25 Apr 2007, p. 20)

Seletar Airport will soon become more attractive to low-cost carriers looking for a second base. Its runway will be extended from 1,200 metres to 1,800 metres...full article

Jet charter firm founder takes over as its CEO (The Business Times 2 March 2007)

[Singapore] Hotel Properties Ltd (HTL) has left his day job at the listed property group to take over the helm of the executive jet charter company he started some two years ago.full article

Demands climb for chartered Business Jets (The Business Times 13-14 Jan 2007)

Need for speed, convenience, security and privacy fuels boom in Singapore and Asia...full article

First Class all the way (Changi Express 10-23 Nov 2006)

You can have a Jet ready in 2 hours... full article

Changi, Seletar gear up for the IMF jet set (The Business Times 2-3 Sep 2006)

Bookings up for exec jets, security being tightened for World Bank/IMF meetings... full article

As Asia spreads its wings, private jets await highfliers (International Herald Tribune TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2006)

Private business aviation is in its infancy in Asia, but over the past 18 months it has started to grow. full article

The flying business tools (Weekend TODAY February 25 - 26, 2006)

YOU could hold an important meeting, have a sumptuous dinner at a proper dining table and sleep in the privacy of your own bedroom — all while in the air. This is what flying is like if you own a private jet. full article

Blocked charter (Flight International 14/02/06)

Red tape hinders the growth of corporate aviation in some Asian countries, but change is coming, albeit slowly, with China and Taiwan drafting new rules. full article

Private jet use takes off in Hong Kong (South China Morning Post -12 Feb 2006)

A growing number of businessmen are opting for the service which allows them easier check-ins and faster clearance through immigration, writes Chris Davis. full article

Ready, Jetset, Go (SC Jan / Mar 2006)

Private jets have always carried the upholstered allure of the luxurious. Is Asia ready for the corporate business jet? John Travolta has a fleet of them parked outside his Los Angeles mansion. Donald Trump seldom shows up at a Manhattan party without his. And David Beckham and his teammates often journey across Asia in one of them. full article

Singapore Fractional Nears Debut (Flight International 24 Jan 2006)

Singapore-based fractional ownership start-up Executive Jet Asia (EJA) plans to begin operations early next month using a Bombardier Learjet 35 wet-leased from South Africa’s Rossair. full article

Sleepy Seletar? Soon, It Won't Be (The Straits Times 30 Nov 2005)

Singapore's Seletar Airport could undergo a major revamp and work could start as early as next year. The Straits Times understands that several Governemnt agencies are... full article

High Hopes To Host Major Business Jet Show Here (The Straits Times 28 Nov 2005)

Singapore has plans to soar higher as a host of major air shows. It could be the site of two major air shows from 2008, instead of one. The Singapore Tourism Board is in talks with aviation experts to... full article

Private Jets Get Set To Fly In Casino High Rollers (The Straits Times 16 Nov 2005)

Private jet and charter plane operators are gearing up to cater to an expected influx of international high rollers descending on Singapore's integrated resorts... full article

Return of the private jet-setter (Business Times 11 Nov 2005)

The corporate aviation business is seeing an upturn as companies view private jets as a business tool. CHEAH UI-HOON reports... full article

Executive Jet Operators Test Asian Market (Business Times 7 Nov 2005)

Executive Jets Asia is bringing together investors from the region. After nextwork airlines, charter flights and low cost carriers, the region is poised to see a new air phenomenon... full article

FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL (30 Aug - 5 Sep 2005)

South-East Asia's first fractional ownership provider aims to launch services by year-end with aircraft based in Malaysia and Singapore, but registered in Indonesia. EJA managing director Prithpal Singh says... full article

Millionaire Asia July/Aug 2005

Executive Jets Asia is the first in Asia to launch a fractional private jet ownership scheme, where a small group of investors pool resources to buy a private jet. The conveniences of a personal jet and the economics of the scheme makes sense. Millionaire Asia’s Brian Yim reports... full article

Travel Weekly 12 August 2005

A Singapore-based executive jet company is bringing fractional jet ownership to this region. it's a private aviation concept that investors own a jet at a fraction of the cost and... full article

Voyage China

Ok, so it wouldn’t be much of a status symbol if everyone were doing it. But with flight restrictions easing – and prices coming down – more and more VIPs are taking to the skies independently. Thanks to Executive Jets Asia (EJA), you need a mere half million US dollars to become a one-sixth ‘fractional’... full article

Smart Travel Asia

If you have a yen for winging around Asian skies in a private jet, at literally a fraction of the price Trumps and Gates do, explore the brave new world of “fractional jet” ownership. Executive Jets Asia has arrived in Asia offering fractional jet aircraft (but you do get the WHOLE enchilada, not just the tail) at US$500,000. For this sum, an individual or institution can own a one-sixth share of a Citation jet. This offers.... full article

Business Times Article

[Singapore] A group of businessmen and corporations from Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia are joing the forces to set up the region's first trans-national executive jet company.

Through a concept known as "fractional jet ownership," the investors plan to base a fleet of seven-set Cessna Citation jets in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta, available for flights to destinations within a four-hour range....full article

American Express Company Press Release

NEW YORK, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- American Express has reinvented its Private Jet Services Program, a special benefit for Platinum Card® and Centurion Card® members, to give them more options and value when booking travel on a private jet. The Program, which is the broadest partner-based program offered on a card, now enables Card members to book private jet services, at no extra cost, that cater to their needs on six of the leading private jet companies....full article

FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 19-25(Oct 2004)

Programme includes introductory level scheme to allow customers to assess requirement without overspending

Jet Aviation has entered the block charter-based jet card market with the US launch of its Privileged Travel programme. The move comes as established players seek to widen their share of the fastest growing sector of business aviation....full article

NEWSWEEK December 13, 2004

Americans used to be the big guns of corporate travel. They puffed cigars on private jets, leaving underlings and foreigners to fly business class, one seat ahead of the tourists. When companies like Warren Buffet's Net Jets, which controls two thirds of the global business - jet market, and Bombardier's FlexJets introduced time shares or "fractional ownership" for planes, the perk began to trickle down the American corporate ladder. But then the dot-com bubble burst, and luxury went briefly out of style. Private-jet production plummeted 34% in two years.... full article