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Business aviation aims for a clean future

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By Bob Hobbi Founder & CEO, ServiceElements Group of environmental activists demonstrating against business aviation outside of GVA (Geneva, Switzerland) during EBACE 2024. he future of aviation is railroads. This was the message written on a demonstrator’s sign during this year’s EBACE in Geneva, outside of the Palexpo convention center, where there was a group […]

If artificial intelligence has not yet transformed your aviation MRO, it soon will

Pilot retention – What’s important to your pilots?

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Lisa Archambeau VP, Facilitator & Strategist ServiceElements International     lmost all advice regarding pilot retention boils down to compensation and quality of life, and for good reason. Compensation must be fair, of course, but it should also be competitive, both with other local or regional corporate operators and with airlines whose attractive offers may […]

AEG Connect network continues global expansion

Business aircraft environment during Covid-19

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Anthony Kioussis President & CEO Asset Insight The official start of the Covid-19 pandemic may be debated for years to come, as will its effect on business aviation. To be sure, 2020 became an increasingly challenging year as uncertainty filled the air, and there’s nothing business managers hate more than to make major financial decisions […]

December 2023

Understanding how Asset Quality affects value of an aircraft offered for sale

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By Anthony Kioussis President, Asset Insight ou may be considering replacing your aircraft. How will its Asset Quality affect the value? Asset Quality summarizes an aircraft’s overall technical condition by taking into account everything – from the condition of the aircraft’s paint to its passenger interior – while principally focusing on the aircraft’s maintenance condition. […]

April 2022

Ethics

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By Anthony Kioussis President, Asset Insight Snake oil merchants in early America would travel from town to town and make impossible claims for their products. With music to draw them in, crowds formed as these unprinci­pled salesmen would lie to the assembly. Whatever malady an unsuspecting prospect might want to alleviate was said to be […]

Milestone signs purchase assignment and leaseback agreements with NHV for 4 Airbus H175 helicopters and 1 Leonardo AW169 helicopter

Understanding asset quality

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By Anthony Kioussis President, Asset Insight t’s been said that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, and that can certainly hold true for aircraft. Regretta­bly, a nice-looking aircraft may be in worse mainte nance condition than an asset in serious need of repaint­ing, hence the need to objectively understand an aircraft’s Asset Quality. […]

October 2021

The difference between diminution of value and cost to cure

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Anthony Kioussis President, Asset Insight A Gulfstream G550 plowed into a Beechcraft King Air at Nashville International Airport. These 2 aircraft will fly again but the accident entry into the logbook will reduce their resale values. hen an aircraft sustains any form of damage, its effect on the asset’s value must be considered. True “value […]

World Aero celebrates 25 Years of excellence in aircraft wheel and brake maintenance