How Emerging Trends Will Impact Aviation: The COVID-19 pandemic will have lasting results on how we live and do business. Certainly, the priorities of aviation operators and service providers have been firmly shaken to the core. The type of businesses that have been lucky enough to thrive over the past few months have certain things in common, whether it’s how they do business or what their business deals in. Here are some of my thoughts on what can we learn about responding to the emerging trends of post-pandemic times.
Disinfection and cleanliness come first
Whilst safety has always been an integral aspect of aviation, the new emphasis on disinfection and distancing will see the most fundamental changes in daily operations that have ever materialized as a result of one event. Companies dealing in commercial and personal medical supplies have experienced massive spikes in business since the pandemic began, and this trend is here to stay for the foreseeable. Companies are under the spotlight for embracing their responsibility in proactive and measurable ways and will have to use their imaginations to come up with new operating procedures that facilitate as must contactless interactions as possible. And because COVID-19 is aviators’ common enemy, we must work more closely together to collaborate on every single link on the supply chain being in perfect compliance with the highest cleanliness standards. Failure to do this will result in zero-trust and credibility and be the death knell of many a business.
Digital acceleration boosted
This was always coming but COVID-19 has certainly hastened the evitable… E-commerce has flourished as a safer means of purchasing goods or services. The distancing it allows and the convenience it provides also crystalizes its position as very much the style of commerce most likely to take us into the future. Aviators and authorities must embrace technology on a new level, whether to replace traditional ways of working to enhance safety or render international travel as secure and efficient. Those who don’t embrace digital will not survive.
Communication more important than ever
We’ve all been through an unsettling time in many ways that will impact how we live our lives and the choices we make in the future. Listening to and responding well to client and provider concerns, reassuring, and communicating clearly is more vital than ever to inspire trust and confidence.
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Mitch Launius
Instructor Pilot for 30 West IP
Mitch is the CEO of 30 West IP where he is also an instructor providing pilot training on international procedures. With an illustrious career of over 34 years in the cockpit, Mitch has acquired over 13,000 hours of flight time flying worldwide, with over 9,000 hours of this in Challenger and Gulfstream aircraft. He is an experienced safety officer and was also an IS-BAO project manager for a fortune 500 flight department. He has presented on Safety and Operations topics at the NBAA International Operators Conference and the Canadian Business Aviation Association Convention and is currently on the NBAA International Operators Committee and serves as the North Atlantic Regional Lead. Mitch is also a member of an FAA working group on General Aviation International Authorizations and Tabletop Exercises (GIATE). He was recently selected to represent IBAC as a member of the ICAO Personal Training and Licensing Panel (PTLP) and was also recently named as a 2020 recipient of the NBAA Tony Kern Professionalism in Aviation Award for his contribution to the business aviation community.
Henry ‘Duke’ LeDuc
Director Of Operations, Americas, UAS International Trip Support
Duke has been a dearly respected member of UAS Americas team and the UAS global family for more than five years. A safety-oriented, FAA-licensed aircraft dispatcher, he oversees all of the operations of the elite UAS Operations Team. With twenty-five years of experience in aviation overall with more than fifteen years of experience in international flight planning and VVIP trip coordination, he is responsible for the development of the dispatch training program and involved in the strategic development of UAS Americas. With a myriad of rich aviation experience behind him, he has extensive experience in worldwide operations with both corporate and charter environments, including seven years as Operations/Dispatch Manager in an industry-leading, Fortune 500, IS-BAO Stage III Certified corporate flight department. Duke is frequently asked shares his knowledge at major industry events and is currently serving on the NBAA’s International Operators Conference (IOC) Planning Committee.
Dudley King
President and Founder, FlightBridge
Dudley is the Founder and President of FlightBridge, which he established in 2011 and has been focused on technology solutions for the private aviation industry since 2006. Since he graduated from Dartmouth in 1988, he has worked with an array of companies listed anywhere from VentureWire to the Fortune 100. A rare blend of executive, entrepreneur, and consultant, Dudley’s executive roles have included acting CIO positions for several companies and tech advisory services to CEOs trying to rebuild their technology organizations or looking for an external, professional point of view. Highly skilled at deeply understanding his customer’s business challenges and drawing from a long and varied experience in information technology services, Dudley excels at designing technology solutions to solve their problems.
Dr. Paulo Alves
Global Medical Director, Aviation Health, Medaire
Paulo has extensive experience in medical advisory in the aviation industry. As a cardiologist, he provides technical guidance and analysis for MedAire’s MedLink medical advisory service and is MedAire’s liaison with civil aviation regulators and industry associations. Paulo worked with Varig Brazilian Airlines for 23 years, 10 of which were spent as General Medical Manager. A member of the MedAire Medical Advisory Board, Paulo is also President of the Ibero-American Aerospace Medical Association, a member of the International Academy of Aerospace Medicine, a member of the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) Safety Committee, a Fellow of the Aerospace Medical Association (AsMA), and a Fellow of the Civil Aviation Medical Association. Throughout his illustrious career, Paulo has held industry leadership roles including Chairperson of the AsMA’s Air Transport Medicine Committee, President of the Airlines Medical Directors Association, President of the Brazilian Society of Aerospace Medicine and was a member of the IATA Medical Advisory Group from 2002 to 2006.
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