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Diamond Aircraft Cuts Jobs

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More bad news from another maker of small private planes. Canadian company Diamond Aircraft will be laying off more than one quarter of its employees in London, Ontario. The aircraft manufacturer says it is retrenching 180 employees out of a workforce of 684. The cuts reflect a change in production caused by a a decline in orders for Diamond's four-seater DA40, a plane which costs $260,000 to $340,000. The company has a steady stream of orders coming and is still working on getting the D-Jet, a single engine personal light jet, certified and into production.

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Smart Air, Europe's New Fractional Service, Opts For the D-Jet

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

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A European jet operator has become the first fractional ownership company to use the single-engine Diamond D-Jet. Smart Air has ordered eight personal jets and has options for more. Smart Air is based in Luxembourg and will operate their fleet across Europe, planning offices in Finland, UK, France, Benelux (Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg), Germany and Italy offering access to 1,835 airports. The website doesn't offer the details o the fractional service but it looks like a fairly standard fractional service with different prices for the various areas in Europe. Deliveries of the plane are set to begin in the first quarter of 2010.

[via Aero-News Network]

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