Louis-Philippe Beuzelin helped the John Dunlop team maintain their hot streak today with the seventh winner of the past fortnight at Windsor.

THE use of Government jets to fly ministers around the country like a “taxi service” has been defended as necessary to meet the demands of their hectic schedules.

NAMA needs developers if it is to work, writes Political Correspondent Conor Ryan.

MANAGEMENT at the Dublin-headquartered pharmaceutical company, Elan have ceased using private jets to get to meetings in the US after investors reacted angrily to revelations that senior executives racked up a $6 million (€4.6 million) jet hire bill.

Uwalk.ie have retained their most popular walking destinations for 2009 and added some new walks in Slovenia and Austria.

MINISTERS have been finding alternative travel arrangements to the Government jet, with new figures showing the number of trips on the Gulfstream have almost halved in the past two years.

Actress Angelina Jolie and her newly-adopted three-year-old son left Vietnam in a private jet today en route to the boy’s new home in the United States.

The boss of Rolls-Royce today said the company’s earnings outlook would not be hurt by its recent suspension in production of engines for the Airbus A380.

Two aircraft came close to colliding on a US runway at Los Angeles International Airport in the latest near-miss at the world’s fifth busiest passenger airport.

A private jet company is suing Jennifer Lopez, saying the singer and Hollywood actress is late on payments for a pair of chartered flights.

The lone US air traffic controller on duty the morning Comair Flight 5191 crashed had cleared the jet for takeoff, then turned his back to do some “administrative duties” as the aircraft veered down the wrong runway, a federal investigator said in Kentucky.

A man who secretly filmed Michael Jackson in a private jet so he could sell footage has been jailed for eight months.

The two men who taped Michael Jackson as he flew from Las Vegas, Nevada, to face arrest for alleged child molestation in Santa Barbara, California, have pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges.

Poland’s prime minister has ordered an investigation into whether the CIA ran secret jails for terrorist suspects there, saying the issue must be cleared up before it becomes “dangerous” for his country.

Ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is today expected leave Central African Republic on a long-haul flight to Jamaica, returning to the Caribbean for the first time since fleeing into exile weeks ago.

CHRISTMAS came early for the Cabinet yesterday as Defence Minister Michael Smith took time out from the more traditional forms of Yuletide shopping to unveil the new €8 million Government jet at Baldonnel Airport.

IT was as well Brian Kerr’s plane didn’t get off the ground to see Russia make cheese of the Swiss because at least he could hide from the horror behind his own sofa.

IT was as well Brian Kerr's plane didn't get off the ground to see Russia make cheese of the Swiss because at least he could hide from the horror behind his own sofa.

Defence minister Michael Smith today defended his Government’s decision to buy a multi-million pound jet aircraft.

The Gulfstream jet which crashed in Aspen, Colorado, was owned by Hollywood producer Andrew Vajna.