Philippe Briand has a reputation for designing strikingly modern, intoxicatingly fast, and impossibly beautiful yachts ranging from 30, to well over 300 feet long.
Gary Wright is the co-founder and chairman of Y.CO (one of the world’s leading superyacht management, sales and charter companies). And as you’ll see in this interview, he’s not only been managing the complicated logistics of buying, selling, owing or chartering a superyacht for decades
In my ongoing “Superyacht Influencer Series,” Oceanco’s Marketing Director Paris Baloumis provides a unique glimpse of just how much time, energy and of course, money goes into every yacht they build.
I think the current world crisis we’re all living through might be a wakeup call for many people who may have been waiting to buy or charter a yacht a until the “right time,” when the truth is, life can be short.
Despite Europe’s COVID-19 travel bans on all international tourists, airlines are selling flights to a host of European destinations. Wizz Air, Ryanair and British Airways are from May 1 starting flights to places including Lisbon, Budapest, Nimes and Bologna, all of which are still in lockdown.
Despite crazy economic gyrations and with much of the business jet fleet idle, you can’t pry private jets from owners’ hands. Planes aren't being put up for sale, and it may have something to do with a rise in the perception of their value due to coronavirus.
Ex-British Army officer Jimmy Carroll is not your typical luxury travel tour operator. In fact, his passion for exploring and leading expeditions to remote regions of the planet was forged while he was commanding military reconnaissance units in active warzones.
Over the past several years, Dallas-based JetSuite, the trade name for Super Air Charter, LLC, cut a high profile in the industry. Today it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
Many airlines worldwide continue to sell online tickets for flights that will never take off due to coronavirus lockdowns. EasyJet, Ryanair, British Airways and Air China are among those luring passengers to buy fares while their fleets are grounded. Consumers often bear the cancellation costs.
Scott Smith, the owner and founder of Boston BoatWorks, is uniquely qualified to shed some insight on where the American yachting industry is now and where it might be headed given the current crisis were all weathering.