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MRO & Maintenance29 July 2026A $30 million state investment brings pilot training and expanded maintenance to the Global TransParkNorth Carolina is backing an expanded maintenance operation and a new pilot training centre in Kinston with a $30 million grant. The project is expected to create more than 100 aviation jobs and bring roughly $5 million of annual training spend back inside the state.Read more
Company News28 July 2026One standard across every tail in the fleetA single operating certificate, one training pipeline and in-house maintenance mean the Citation you board in Kinston is held to the same standard as the Challenger meeting you in Teterboro.Read more
Jet Club22 July 2026Record Jet Club momentum: new members are depositing more and flying moreMay set a company record for flight hours and made flyExclusive the largest Part 135 operator in North America by both flights and hours. June became the strongest non-holiday sales month in Jet Club history.Read more
MRO & Maintenance22 July 2026Starlink installations move in-houseHigh-throughput connectivity is now fitted in flyExclusive’s own avionics shop, which shortens downtime and keeps the certification paperwork under one roof.Read more
Fleet & Aircraft14 July 2026The amphibious Caravan opens water-access charterFloat-equipped Caravan operations reach destinations with no runway at all — a marina, a sandbar, a yacht at anchor — and connect them to the jet fleet.Read more
Press Releases14 July 2026flyExclusive completes the Jet.AI aviation asset acquisitionSeventeen months after the definitive agreement was signed, the transaction closed: Jet Card members, three aircraft, three 2027 Citation CJ3 delivery positions, cash and a SpaceX-linked securities position.Read more
Jet Club8 July 2026How Jet Club hours actually workA plain-language walk through deposits, guaranteed availability and what happens when your first-choice cabin class is already flying.Read more
Press Releases6 July 2026Jet.AI stockholders approve the merger, clearing the final milestoneApproval came at a special meeting on 2 July 2026. The release also set out Q1 2026 operating performance and flyExclusive’s number-one ranking among North American Part 135 operators in May.Read more
MRO & Maintenance30 June 2026Inside the paint hangarStripping, filling, priming and shooting a business jet is measured in weeks and judged in millimetres. A look at what the schedule is really made of.Read more
Press Releases24 June 2026Strategic priorities reaffirmed, and the highest utilisation month in company historyFour priorities for 2026 — profitability, balance sheet, utilisation, shareholder value — restated alongside a 7,000-hour May and a detailed account of where the Jet.AI stockholder vote stood.Read moreFractional Ownership18 June 2026Fractional versus whole aircraft: the arithmeticWhere the crossover sits between a share, a whole aeroplane and a managed asset — and the fixed costs that decide it.Read more
MRO & Maintenance5 June 2026The Mobile Service Unit programme, explainedAn AOG does not wait for a hangar slot. What the mobile units carry, how they are dispatched, and why the response is measured in hours.Read moreLifestyle & Travel26 May 2026Reading an empty leg honestlyRepositioning flights are genuinely cheaper and genuinely inflexible. How to tell which of those matters more for your trip.Read more
Company News12 May 2026What an in-house crew pipeline buys a passengerRecruiting, training and upgrading pilots inside the company is a hiring strategy. It is also the reason a schedule holds in August.Read more
Jet Club16 April 2026Jet Club 2026: all-in pricing, rates locked for 24 months, no fuel surchargeThe monthly membership fee, taxi-time billing, late-night surcharges and regional surcharges are gone. Rates lock for 24 months from deposit, and fuel volatility is not passed through.Read morePress Releases25 March 2026A patent application for schedule optimisation, and Contrails opens to other operatorsThe architecture precomputes valid options across the whole fleet instead of recalculating a schedule from scratch when a day falls apart. The flight management system built on it goes to other Part 135 operators at no licence cost.Read more
MRO & Maintenance17 March 2026The MRO completes its first Challenger Starlink installation — and books a multi-aircraft agreementTen weeks after signing the dealership, the avionics shop has a Challenger flying with Starlink and is targeting a five-to-seven day cadence per aircraft.Read more
Fractional Ownership12 March 2026The only fractional shares on the Citation XLS+, and no monthly management feeShares from $695,000 depending on size, with no monthly management fee — positioned against the Phenom 300 and Citation Ascend at a lower entry cost.Read more
Press Releases10 March 2026Mission Control transfers to flyExclusiveThe scheduling platform flyExclusive held an option on since October 2025 has now been bought outright — scheduling optimisation, crew and maintenance modules, pricing agents and analytics.Read more
Fleet & Aircraft14 January 2026Two more Challenger 350s bring the Challenger fleet to eightThe most economically productive segment of the fleet gets more capacity — and becomes the first flyExclusive type to carry Starlink.Read more
MRO & Maintenance8 January 2026flyExclusive named an authorised Starlink Aviation dealerThe Part 145 repair station can now sell, install and support Starlink — on its own fleet and for third-party owners and operators.Read more
Company News6 January 2026A Raleigh office at One North Hills, and what stays in KinstonNearly 30 people in Raleigh today, around 125 when the permanent office opens in June. The MRO, maintenance leadership and a 121,000-square-foot hangar project stay at the Global TransPark.Read more
Lifestyle & Travel5 January 2026Air to sea: flyExclusive becomes Pardo Yachts’ premier private aviation partnerA multi-year relationship built on a specific capability — the amphibious Caravan, which reaches a yacht at anchor without an airport in the sequence.Read moreMRO & Maintenance4 December 2025Six more Mobile Service Units, and the arithmetic behind themThe mobile maintenance footprint doubled in October. The company puts a number on why: every 1% improvement in dispatch availability is worth roughly $3 million a year.Read more
Press Releases7 October 2025flyExclusive acquires Volato’s aircraft sales division, with rights to Vaunt and Mission Control$2.1 million in stock for the sales division, plus the right to acquire two technology platforms for a further $2.0 million — an empty-leg app and a Part 135 scheduling system.Read moreLifestyle & Travel22 September 2025Coco Gauff joins flyExclusive as global brand ambassadorThe two-time Grand Slam champion, her team and her family will travel exclusively on flyExclusive’s owned and operated fleet along the WTA Tour.Read more
Fleet & Aircraft2 September 2025The first Citation XLS Gen2 joins the certificateA quieter, brighter version of the midsize aeroplane the fleet already knows well — eight seats, roughly 1,839 nautical miles, and the short-field performance the XLS is bought for.Read more
Company News22 August 2025Adam Posar appointed Senior Vice President of SalesFifteen years in private aviation, telecom and consumer brands, most recently running the national sales organisation at Jet Linx Aviation.Read moreCompany News15 July 2025ARGUS Platinum, held every year since 2015The rating is audited, not self-declared — and the part worth noting is the unbroken run of audits behind it rather than the badge itself.Read moreFleet & Aircraft17 June 2025Caravan and amphibious Caravan service launches from TamiamiEight seats, a base at KTMB, and a float-equipped aeroplane that can be sent to a latitude and longitude rather than an airport.Read more
Jet Club20 May 2025One swing at Frederica’s 8th, and a $100,000 Jet Club membershipA 169-yard par three at Frederica Golf Club’s Member-Guest Tournament, and the hole-in-one prize flyExclusive had put up behind it.Read moreCompany News19 May 2025A flight home after a heart transplant: the AeroAngel partnershipForty trips and 55 flight legs since 2022. The most recent took a four-year-old from Duke back to Nebraska in a cabin with nobody else in it.Read more
Company News30 April 2025A fifth consecutive World Travel Awards nominationNominated as Leading Private Jet Charter in North America, decided by public vote.Read more
Fleet & Aircraft21 April 2025The fifth Challenger arrives, with the sixth and seventh in final preparationEvery Challenger entering the fleet goes through full exterior and interior refurbishment first. The stated aim at the time was 15 by the end of 2025.Read more
Lifestyle & Travel2 April 2025Lucas Glover named flyExclusive’s first golf ambassadorA major champion and six-time PGA Tour winner, and a Jet Club member, representing the company from his eleventh Masters appearance onward.Read moreJet Club10 March 2025Jet Club relaunches with locked rates and no blackout datesRates held for 24 months, guaranteed access to the Premium Super-Mid category, and a capped number of high-demand days rather than a peak-season surprise.Read more
Press Releases14 February 2025A definitive agreement to acquire Jet.AI’s aviation businessAn all-stock transaction structured around a spin-off, with common aircraft types on both sides — the opening move in an arc that took seventeen months to close.Read moreMRO & Maintenance30 January 2025Two aircraft, one calendar: a third year of Sherwin-Williams recognitionA Hawker 800XP and a Beechcraft 350, both shot in Kinston — the first time in the contest’s history that one company was recognised for two projects in the same calendar year.Read moreCompany News18 December 2024A single-day flight record over Thanksgiving weekendHours flown up 47% on the 2023 holiday period, and the highest single-day revenue total in nine years.Read more
Company News27 September 2024Brad Garner joins as Chief Financial OfficerThree changes at once: a new CFO, Matt Lesmeister to Chief Operating Officer and Mike Guina to Chief Commercial Officer.Read morePress Releases3 September 2024An exclusive aircraft management agreement with VolatoThirteen fractionalised HondaJets under management, roughly 184 fractional and 265 block customers, and the start of a relationship that later brought Volato’s sales division and software across too.Read more
