Aircraft Management

[Arthur's Wizard]

I'm interested to learn what is typically involved in the management of say, a small business jet. I'm guessing that apart from the obvious supplying of crews, flight planning and bookings etc, that a management company would also liaise with maintenance providers; arrange insurance perhaps? Would they typically pay ALL bills up front and then invoice the owner or would operating and maintenance bills be paid directly by the owner?

Any info would be received with interest and thanks!

[dc9-32]

Hi, if you PM me with some details on information you seek, aircraft types, type of operation, location etc, I'll take a look and respond with some details.

[Arthur's Wizard]

dc9

Sorry, it's just a generic enquiry driven purely by interest rather than a specific request.

Thanks all the same!

[Genghis the Engineer]

I'm interested to learn what is typically involved in the management of say, a small business jet. I'm guessing that apart from the obvious supplying of crews, flight planning and bookings etc, that a management company would also liaise with maintenance providers; arrange insurance perhaps? Would they typically pay ALL bills up front and then invoice the owner or would operating and maintenance bills be paid directly by the owner?

Any info would be received with interest and thanks!

Financial management will be there, but a fair bit of stuff will be subcontracted - the detail will change with the organisation, but a lot of the work will be about oversight of the competence and conduct of your subcontractors.

SMS

Crew training

Company quality procedures - internal auditing

Liaison with CAA / responding to their external audits

Staff management / training / recruitment / succession planning

Maintaining the company manuals

Maintaining 1001 other controlled documents

Hangerage

Cleaning

Liaising with, and reporting to, the owners

Liaising with maintenance organisation

Liaising with home airport management

Juggling bookings / useage priorities / maintenance requirements

OFP generation

Airport / airspace / fuel bookings & payment

Upgrade planning (aircrew will always be after something, owners will never want to pay for it.)


And other stuff I'll probably think of later.

My limited experience is that payments tend to be split between customer and contractor, depending upon nature, location and markup - the precise arrangement will depend upon the local business model that all concerned have agreed to.

G

[Arthur's Wizard]

Genghis,

I'm making the assumption that much of your list assumes that the management company will be an AOC holder? If it was a small set up, non AOC holder, looking after maybe just one or two aircraft, I guess that much of audit and company manuals work wouldn't be involved? Is that a correct assumption?