Actualité aéronautique

XOJET Announces XOJET Elite Access™—The Next Generation in Guaranteed Private Jet Programs

transmise le 15 mars 2012 par Business Wire

XOJET, Inc., the leader in private aviation, today announced its latest innovation—XOJET Elite Access™—a unique guaranteed program that offers a compelling alternative to fractional jet ownership and jet card programs. XOJET Elite Access™ offers program members worry-free guaranteed access to the XOJET fleet of customized 100%-Wi-Fi-enabled Citation X and Challenger 300 jets, with as little as 12 hours notice. Breaking new ground, the program offers an unprecedented pay-as-you-fly pricing model that eliminates the need for an expensive upfront purchase commitment and offers a simple $8,500 hourly rate that includes all fees, taxes and fuel.

CIT Launches New Global Integrated Advertising Campaign

transmise le 15 mars 2012 par Business Wire

CIT Group Inc. cit.com, a leading provider of financing to small businesses and middle market companies, today launched a new global integrated advertising campaign designed to highlight the Company’s focus on growth, while promoting its industry expertise and commitment to the small business and middle market sectors. The attention-grabbing campaign, based on unexpected combinations of words, or “portmanteaux,” will appear in a variety of media, including print, mobile, Web and radio. It was created by DeSantis Breindel, a B2B branding and marketing firm based in New York City.

XPO Logistics Announces Pricing of $126 Million Common Stock Offering

transmise le 15 mars 2012 par Business Wire

XPO Logistics, Inc. today announced the pricing of a registered underwritten public offering of shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $15.75 per share and that it has increased the size of the offering to 8,000,000 shares from the previously announced 6,000,000 shares. The underwriters have a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 1,200,000 shares of common stock from XPO solely to cover over-allotments. Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Jefferies & Company, Inc. are acting as joint book-running managers for the offering. The co-managers for the offering are BB&T Capital Markets, a division of Scott & Stringfellow, LLC, Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., Raymond James & Associates, Inc. and Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated. XPO intends to use the net proceeds of the offering for general corporate purposes, which may include potential acquisitions. The offering is expected to close on March 20, 2012, subject to customary closing conditions.

Smiths Detection Launches New Air Cargo Scanner to Meet Growing Demands of Global Security

transmise le 15 mars 2012 par Business Wire

Smiths Detection has unveiled a new, dual-view X-ray inspection system designed to meet the growing global demands of screening large cargo, pallets and freight items on both passenger and cargo planes.

Smiths Detection lance un nouveau scanner de fret aérien afin de répondre aux demandes croissantes au niveau de la sécurité mondiale

transmise le 15 mars 2012 par Business Wire

Le Conseil d’administration inscrit la distribution d’un dividende et la levée des limitations sur les droits de vote à l’ordre du jour de l’Assemblée générale annuelle des actionnaires

transmise le 15 mars 2012 par PRNewswire

Board of Directors Puts Dividend and Repeal of Restriction on Voting Rights on Annual General Meeting of Shareholders Agenda

transmise le 15 mars 2012 par PRNewswire

ILFC Announces Pricing of $1,500,000,000 Offering Comprised of $750,000,000 of 4.875% Senior Notes Due 2015 and $750,000,000 of 5.875% Senior Notes Due 2019

transmise le 15 mars 2012 par Business Wire

International Lease Finance Corporation (“ILFC”), a wholly owned subsidiary of American International Group, Inc. , announced today that it has priced, and entered into an agreement to issue and sell, subject to certain conditions, $750,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 4.875% senior notes due 2015 (the “2015 Notes”) and $750,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 5.875% senior notes due 2019 (the “2019 Notes” and, together with the 2015 Notes, the “Notes”) pursuant to an effective registration statement filed on August 7, 2009 with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Special Offer for Direct Air Customers

transmise le 14 mars 2012 par Business Wire

Today Sun Country Airlines announced a 25% discount for passengers ticketed on cancelled Direct Air flights between Kalamazoo, MI and Sanford, FL or Kalamazoo, MI and Punta Gorda, FL, from March 14, 2012, to May 15, 2012. The discount will be applied toward the purchase of a new ticket for travel now through May 6, 2012, on Sun Country nonstop flights between Lansing, MI and Orlando, FL (Orlando International Airport). In order to receive the offer, customers must provide their ticket number or confirmation number and travel date on Direct Air and book by March 31, 2012.

Shipments of SOLARBAN 70XL Glass by PPG Surpass 120 Million Square Feet

transmise le 14 mars 2012 par Business Wire

PPG Industries announced that it has now shipped 120 million square feet of SOLARBAN(R) 70XL glass, the industry’s first triple-silver-coated, solar control, low-emissivity (low-e) glass. To date, Solarban 70XL glass has been installed on more than 1,000 buildings in North America, including at least 160 that have been documented for LEED(R) certification by the U.S. Green Building Council.