Xclusive Jet, celebrating its eleventh birthday, has taken on a Falcon 900B which it is managing for a private owner, to be based at Cannes. Likely sectors are to Gander in Canada and to west Africa for business. “Despite the aircraft being a 1989 model, it has a brand-new factory fitted interior, so as far as the passengers are concerned, it’s a brand new aircraft,” remarks operations manager Andrew Wood. “Since the beginning of August it has flown around 70 hours, so far with no issues.”

Wood says that the company expects to add the Falcon to its AOC in the weeks ahead. Other trips for the owner so far have been to the US, Caribbean and Moscow. For potential charter clients the aircraft offers superior range when compared with the rest of Xclusive Jet’s fleet.

Wood adds: “The introduction of this aircraft to the charter market will coincide with the extension of our AOC area to a worldwide operation. Having operated private aircraft across the world for some time, we look forward to doing the same for our charter clients.”

Earlier this year a Citation XLS+ was added to the AOC as Xclusive’s 30th aircraft, along with the return of a Citation II and Hawker 800XP to charter following heavy maintenance.