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Press Release Archives

► 2013 (2)
- ► April (1)
  - • Flight Options Jet Membership Club Signs 100th Member
- ► February (1)
  - • Loyal Clients, New Aircraft Deliveries Fuel Growth At Private Aviation Leader
► 2012 (5)
- ► October (1)
  - • Embraer Executive Jets’ Phenom 300 Program Reaches 100th Delivery
- ► June (2)
  - • Flight Options Chairman Kenn Ricci Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from National Air Transportation Association
  - • Flight Options Awarded Sixth Consecutive ARG/US Platinum Safety Rating
- ► March (1)
  - • Flight Options First in Industry to Receive iPad Class 1 Electronic Flight Bag Authorization
- ► February (1)
  - • Building On Three Straight Record-Breaking Years, Flight Options Plans For Continued Industry Leadership In 2012
► 2011 (7)
► 2010 (10)
- ► December (2)
  - • Flight Options Announces Phenom 300 Program Expansion
  - • Flight Options Names Matthew Doyle VP Sales and Marketing
- ► October (2)
  - • Flight Options Enhanced Citation X Set To Redefine Industry Expectations For Mid Size Jets
  - • Flight Options Announces Order For Nextant Aerospace 400XT
- ► July (1)
  - • Flight Options Says There’s An App For That
- ► June (1)
  - • Flight Options Embarks on 40-City Tour To Showcase First Phenom 300
- ► May (2)
  - • Flight Options Phenom 300 Receives FAA Validation
  - • Flight Options Takes Delivery of Its First Phenom 300
- ► April (1)
  - • Flight Options Pilots Ratify First Labor Agreement
- ► January (1)
  - • Flight Options LLC Reaches Tentative Agreement with Pilot Union
► 2009 (6)
- ► October (1)
  - • Flight Options to Equip with Aircell High Speed Internet
- ► September (1)
  - • New Financing Solution for Fractional Jet Shares
- ► June (1)
  - • Will Corporations Ever Feel Good About Flying Private Jets Again
- ► May (1)
  - • Flight Options Earns Safety Honor
- ► March (1)
  - • Flight Options Announces an Investment by Directional Capital and Resilience Capital Partners
- ► January (1)
  - • Flying Colours Corp. Awarded Contract to Repaint Flight Options, LLC Jet Aircraft Fleet
► 2008 (4)
- ► November (4)
► 2007 (9)
- ► July (1)
  - • ARG/US Results Rate Flight Options #1 in Reliability
- ► June (1)
  - • Flight Options Opens Las Vegas Maintenance Facility
- ► May (1)
  - • CAE and Flight Options sign five-year maintenance technician training agreement
- ► April (1)
  - • Flight Options Maintenance Joins ASAP for Another First in Aviation Safety
- ► March (3)
- ► January (2)
  - • Flight Options Names Head of Marketing and Sales
  - • Flight Options Partners with FAA for Safety Management System
► 2006 (7)
- ► September (1)
  - • Flight Options Powers Up Value and Simplicity with Fractional First
- ► July (1)
  - • Flight Options Names New Vice President
- ► June (1)
  - • Flight Options Names New Chief Financial Officer
- ► May (1)
  - • Flight Options Announces the Ultimate in JetPASS Travel
- ► April (1)
  - • Flight Options Receives ARG/US Platinum Rating
- ► March (2)
  - • Flight Options Offers Increased Freedom on the Legacy
  - • Flight Options Brings Safety to a Higher Plane
► 2005 (11)
- ► November (1)
  - • Flight Options Witnesses Significant Progress on its Go-Forward Business
- ► October (3)
- ► August (2)
  - • Flight Options Continues to Deliver Even More Options with the Expansion of its 75/25 Program
  - • Flight Options Announces Completed Equity Offering With Raytheon Company
- ► May (3)
- ► March (1)
  - • Flight Options Offers the Legacy in a 1/32
- ► January (1)
  - • Flight Options Names Jerry Bemis, Vice President, Maintenance
► 2004 (11)
- ► December (1)
  - • Flight Options Receives Weatherhead 100 Centurion Award
- ► October (4)
- ► August (2)
  - • Flight Options Names Cameron Gowans, Chief Marketing Officer
  - • Flight Options Announces Global Access
- ► July (1)
  - • Flight Options Launches JetPass
- ► April (1)
  - • Flight Options' Pilots Utilize the Latest in Wireless
- ► March (1)
  - • Flight Options Introduces Innovative Program for the Legacy
- ► February (1)
  - • Flight Options Names New Chief Operating Officer
► 2003 (9)
- ► December (2)
  - • NASA Took Buzz Aldrin To the Moon, but Flight Options Took Him to Kitty Hawk
  - • Flight Options Proud To Support the First Flight Centennial Celebration
- ► October (1)
  - • Flight Options Announces the Addition of the Embraer Legacy to its Fleet
- ► August (2)
  - • Flight Options Partners with Pratt & Whitney Canada
  - • Flight Options Launches Owner's Only Web site
- ► June (2)
  - • Flight Options LLC completes financial recapitalization agreement with its investors
  - • Flight Options Announces Alliance With Raytheon Aircraft Services
- ► May (1)
  - • Flight Options Appoints Chief Purchasing Officer
- ► March (1)
  - • Flight Options Launches New Recruiting Website
► 2002 (11)
- ► October (2)
  - • The 2,000th Owner Joins Flight Options Program
  - • New Seniority Program Selected
- ► September (2)
  - • Flight Options Flight Guide System Enhances Efficiency, Reliability
  - • Citation X Jet Added To Flight Options’ Fleet
- ► August (3)
- ► July (1)
  - • Flight Options Flies Corporate Angel Network’s 15,000th Flight
- ► June (1)
  - • Flight Options Is First and Only Fractional Provider to Earn Prestigious ARGUS Platinum Safety Rating
- ► April (1)
  - • Flight Options Announces Factory-Supported Pricing
- ► March (1)
  - • Flight Options Finalizes Deal with Raytheon Travel Air
► 2001 (9)
- ► December (1)
  - • Flight Options United With Raytheon TravelAir
- ► September (1)
  - • Flight Options Improves Efficiency and Fleet Readiness with Paperless Cockpit Technology
- ► July (2)
  - • Flight Options adds facilities in Denver and Sacramento
  - • Cleveland based Flight Options provides last taste of luxury to NBCs LOST contestants
- ► June (1)
  - • Flight Options Receives FAAs Diamond Certificate
- ► April (1)
  - • Flight Options Introduces CitationJet
- ► March (1)
  - • Flight Options Selects Fleet Capital to Provide Client Financing
- ► February (1)
  - • Citation V Jet Added to Flight Options Fleet
- ► January (1)
  - • Flight Options Chosen for Best Cabin
► 2000 (12)
- ► December (1)
  - • Flight Options Tops Weatherhead 100 Centurion List
- ► October (5)
- ► September (1)
  - • Flight Options Surpasses Flexjet and Travel Air in Sales of Fractional Shares in First Seven Months of 2000
- ► August (2)
  - • Flight Options Promotes Chief Operating Officer Michael Rossi to President and COO
  - • Flight Options Initiates Sixth Shared Jet Ownership Program
- ► June (1)
  - • Flight Options Introduces Innovative Website Exclusively for Owners
- ► April (1)
  - • Flight Options Announces 350th Customer
- ► March (1)
  - • Flight Options First Fractional to Add Paperless Cockpit Technology to Aircraft
► 1999 (12)
- ► December (4)
- ► October (1)
  - • Construction Begins on $3.5 Million Addition to Expand Service Areas
- ► August (1)
  - • Flight Options Obtains $20 Million for Expansion
- ► June (3)
- ► April (1)
  - • Flight Options, Inc. Names Lucille Fisher Director of Operations Control Center
- ► February (2)
  - • Flight Options Initiates Fourth New Shared Jet Ownership Program
  - • Flight Options, Inc. Opens General Aviation’s Most Sophisticated Operational Control Center
► 1998 (5)
- ► October (4)
- ► September (1)
  - • Richard W. Heckman Signs as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Flight Options

Press Release

Flight Options Jet Membership Club Signs 100th Member

Popular Program to Add Nextant 400XT to Private Jet Travel Offering

CLEVELAND, OH — April 16, 2013 — Flight Options, LLC, operating the world’s second-largest private aviation fleet, reported today that it has reached an impressive 100-member milestone in its Jet Membership Club program within 12 short months of its launch. Flight Options also announced that the program will now provide access to the Nextant 400XT business jet in addition to the Embraer Phenom 300®.

Loyal Clients, New Aircraft Deliveries Fuel Growth At Private Aviation Leader

CLEVELAND, OH — February 20, 2013 — Flight Options, LLC, the world’s second largest private aviation company, reported today that sales in 2012 were up 30 percent from 2011. Robust fractional ownership sales and the recently launched Jet Membership Club led the way as Flight Options continued its momentum after a strong 2011.

Embraer Executive Jets’ Phenom 300 Program Reaches 100th Delivery

CLEVELAND, OHIO and ORLANDO, FLORIDA, October 29, 2012 – Embraer Executive Jets and Flight Options are marking the 100th delivery of the light Phenom 300 to the Cleveland, OH-based fractional jet ownership company.

Flight Options Chairman Kenn Ricci Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from National Air Transportation Association

Honored with William A. Ong Memorial Award, Aviation Group's Highest Tribute

CLEVELAND, OH - June 5, 2012 - Flight Options, LLC, the second-largest company in the private jet travel industry, today announced that its chairman, Kenneth Ricci, has received the William A. Ong Memorial Award from the National Air Transportation Association. Presented annually since 1984, the Ong Memorial Award is given for "extraordinary achievement and extended meritorious service to the general aviation industry," and is considered one of the industry's most prestigious accolades. Ricci becomes the youngest-ever recipient of this lifetime achievement award.