A scoop from Kevin Done, shortly to retire as the Financial Times’ highly regarded aviation correspondent.  His successor will shortly be announced as Pilita Clark, presently the paper’s deputy news editor. She has been at the paper for about five years and was previously a journalist in Australia: (more…)

How do you get busy journalists to really understand your product, especially if it’s technical?  Even with B2B publications this can be a challenge, particularly when the competition superficially seems to be making similar claims for their wares. (more…)

London, 23 June 2009 – Companies looking to extract even greater savings from their Travel and Expense (T&E) budgets have a powerful new tool in these challenging times. KDS, Europe’s leading provider of integrated T&E systems, has expanded the functionality of its KDS Corporate online solution so that virtually all travel bookings can be managed and all travel expenses captured for efficient reconciliation. One hundred per cent user adoption and policy compliance are now achievable goals – a first for a T&E solution. (more…)

London, 23 June 2009 – The UK Government is expected to make changes to tax regulation that will in effect give us our own ‘Sarbanes-Oxley’ – a move that has major implications for all insurance company leaders, warns leading outsourcing tax compliance firm FiscalReps. (more…)

WICHITA, Kan., June 22, 2009 – Cessna Aircraft Company, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, announced today Egypt’s Smart Aviation will take delivery this year of the first two Citation Sovereigns certified for medical evacuation (medevac) with a dual-patient system from LifePort. The two medevac Sovereigns are part of a six-aircraft order from Smart. (more…)