Cessna Aircraft Company, a subsidiary of Textron Aviation Inc, recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of the maiden flight of the model 525 CitationJet prototype. Since its launch, eight variants have been certified, and Cessna has delivered more than 1,800 model 525 aircraft around the world, more than 360 of which are in the EMEA region.

The average business aircraft owner or operator spends his working life in close proximity to technology at the cutting edge. Whether it is fly-by-wire, glass cockpits, flight planning and tracking or satellite communications, it can all be part of everyday flying.

Private charter operators in Europe and the Middle East have been left seething with anger over the bureaucratic muddle which worsened the financial fall-out from Iceland's volcano crisis.