Embraer has named Nayak Aircraft Services an authorised Executive Jet Service Center. This is the first maintenance, repair and overhaul company to serve Embraer's Phenom 100/300 customers in Germany.

Nayak's Cologne facility will be capable of providing full service aircraft care including routine inspection, scheduled and unscheduled maintenance, airframe, engine, avionics and other systems repairs, 24/7 assistance, an AOG mobile rescue team and an inventory of expendable and repairable parts.

Separately, Dublin-based JetBird will be offering a point-to-point, on-demand private jet service in Europe from mid-2009. JetBird is intended to offer the benefits of traditional private jet usage, at a fraction of the cost of branded private jet operators.

The first 10 Phenom 100 aircraft will be based at Cologne and maintained and handled by Nayak. A total of 100 aircraft will be operated by JetBird by 2012, the company says.