C O N T E N T S
Regulars Profiles Spotlight
18 Meet the manager
Farnborough Airport’s
Environment manager
Miles Thomas
60 Region focus
Your guide to Silicon Valley
74 Back Chat
Our reader’s views on
illegal charter operations
65 Castle & Cooke
The FBO chain on the
challenge of sustainability
67 Dortmund Airport
New general aviation
terminal opens
“Longer term it is
widely anticipated
that the negative
economic effects of
coronavirus will be
substantial”
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69 Air BP
Addressing questions
on carbon offsetting
71 Collins Aviation
Predicting the future
of business aviation
72 Mototok
Easier hangar handling
72 DC Aviation Malta
Benefits of operating
on a Maltese AOC
73 Limos worldwide
Chauffeur-driven expertise
There was a plan to this issue of Business Airport
International. A feature about the European football
championships, coverage of the forthcoming EBACE
show in Geneva, a report from an event about urban air
mobility in London.
The editorial plan, like almost all
other plans, was thrown into disarray
by coronavirus. The epidemic’s
inexorable spread to the West from
China has caused panic and the
implementation of radical measures
by governments, the like of which
have never been seen before during
peacetime. The aviation sector
is bearing the brunt – airports,
airlines, charter operators and FBOs
alike are scaling back operations and
face shutting down completely over the
coming months. Worryingly, most experts
predict that the worst is yet to come.
Some operators did experience a short term gain from
individuals flying to escape the virus. People were initially
traveling west from China to escape Covid-19. Now they
are flying back east. As ever, business aviation excels in
meeting the needs of customers that commercial airlines
cannot fulfil.However, industry experts expect this gain
to be short term. Longer term it is widely anticipated
that the negative economic effects of coronavirus will be
substantial and hurt the business aviation sector severely.
It remains to be seen exactly how bad the impact of
the virus will be on the world outside of China
and aviation. But, we are beginning to see
in the industry an unprecedented effort
to collaborate and help each other out
through the crisis.
At Business Airport International
we will continue to cover the news
and issues that matter the most to
those in the business aviation industry,
including coronavirus and its impact.
We aim to provide a service to the
industry through these troubled times as
a communications platform. To that end, if
anyone would like to highlight any initiatives
designed to alleviate the impact
of coronavirus or raise a challenge
that business aviation could help
with, please contact me at the email
address below.
Welcome
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Editor Ben Sampson
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Production Emily Fanning
Publication Manager Jag Kambo
Project Manager Tom Eames
Circulation Manager Chris Jones
Editorial Director Tom Stone
Publisher Simon Hughes
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CEO Ben Allen
Chairman Mark Allen
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