Gold Air becomes Air Partner
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Let’s get real, everyone knows everyone else’s clients already;
If this is the case why has AP just paid £4.4 for a relatively non-profit /loss making organisation with an AOC, a client base and an aircraft lease agreement.
surely the vast majority of this consideration is paid for the client base.
GA will no doubt become fractional / blockhour, but in the meantime they will want to hold on to the broker business.
Don't forget any enquiries that go to GA that cannot be dealt with by GA aircraft will be referred to AP, a healthy way of generating enquiries.
Without doubt work that would have traditionally gone to LEA, Eurojet etc will now be put onto GA, that in itself negates the "smarter to charter" slogan.
Would you use an independent IFA that was owned by the Halifax and there was no regulatory authority for IFA's?
Personally I predicted brokers buying operators a while ago, but expected it to take a while longer.
Phil
If this is the case why has AP just paid £4.4 for a relatively non-profit /loss making organisation with an AOC, a client base and an aircraft lease agreement.
surely the vast majority of this consideration is paid for the client base.
GA will no doubt become fractional / blockhour, but in the meantime they will want to hold on to the broker business.
Don't forget any enquiries that go to GA that cannot be dealt with by GA aircraft will be referred to AP, a healthy way of generating enquiries.
Without doubt work that would have traditionally gone to LEA, Eurojet etc will now be put onto GA, that in itself negates the "smarter to charter" slogan.
Would you use an independent IFA that was owned by the Halifax and there was no regulatory authority for IFA's?
Personally I predicted brokers buying operators a while ago, but expected it to take a while longer.
Phil
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Their MO is simply to acquire databases, and likely where necessary to remove the staff of the company they have acquired and re-staff with their own, or recruit fresh. They may possibly try for a takeover of Sentient and get access to a good share of the US market. By all accounts JetCard is not doing that well anyway. I think you will see the LEar's running for the Govt. and Royal flying.
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Quite likely they will be flying them. Expect to see GA re-branded in due course.
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It will be interesting to see what happens, now that Air Partner have the reigns. Good luck to them all.
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Really?
That would also mean also the Chief Training Captain too was incompetant as well as several experienced Captains that left at the same time.
Still I know AP will sort them out.
That would also mean also the Chief Training Captain too was incompetant as well as several experienced Captains that left at the same time.
Still I know AP will sort them out.
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From what I hear most of the problems at Gold Ops went away when they got rid of an incompetent Manager and an incompetent Controller back at the beginning of the summer.
It will be interesting to see what happens, now that Air Partner have the reigns. Good luck to them all.
It will be interesting to see what happens, now that Air Partner have the reigns. Good luck to them all.
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Double Standards
Having worked for an execjet operator all my aviation career, i worked for a firm that had the same setup as AP now have for a while and AP would not touch us with a bargepole. I like the people that work there and have had some great relationships with them when working in that sector but fact remains like any large organistation, the people at the top know what is happening and all the guys below just think they are on to the best thing since sliced bread when they are just a small cog in the machine.
AP seem and want to do and dictate when and what they want and i cant knock them for that, it is the sign of a dynamic company but they have now acted and others, money permissable, need to follow suit. AP have had operators in their pocket for a long time, mostly through the promise of increased business, sometimes it appears sometimes it does not but mark my words this is the first event that will change the dynamics of this industry forever......
AP seem and want to do and dictate when and what they want and i cant knock them for that, it is the sign of a dynamic company but they have now acted and others, money permissable, need to follow suit. AP have had operators in their pocket for a long time, mostly through the promise of increased business, sometimes it appears sometimes it does not but mark my words this is the first event that will change the dynamics of this industry forever......
