PremiAir Global has appointed two new aircraft sales managers - Craig Lammiman and Gordon Potter - as it focuses on expanding in the fixed wing pre-owned market to complement its long-established executive helicopter sales.

Both men will spearhead the drive by the aircraft sales and brokerage specialist of PremiAir from Farnborough Airport.

Lammiman has been running his own aircraft brokerage company, JetConcept, for the last three years and Potter joins from Patriot Aviation where he headed the company's helicopter sales department for four years.

Meanwhile group md David McRobert says the company's Learjet 45 and Premier 1 have already benefited from increased business levels generated by appreciation of their advantages in the wake of problems like the UK's heavy winter snow.

"Savvy passengers desperate to get home or fulfil their Christmas holiday commitments have utilised PremiAir's six and eight seat jets to travel from London, Dublin and Teesside to destinations such as Geneva, Paris, St Moritz and Stockholm and we've gained additional business," says McRobert. "One particular flight enabled a family of seven to finally escape the UK having spent three days camped at Heathrow airport. PremiAir transferred them to Frankfurt where they connected to an onward scheduled service to the US. This turned out to be a busy time for business aviation and we met clients who would not previously have considered private aviation."

PremiAir established PremiAir Global in 2008 to offer the company's network of clients a specialist team of advisers able to assist with selling aircraft.

McRobert says the division is looking to source private jets and vip helicopters for private clients based in the UK and overseas. "These include a G450, a Challenger 605 and a Citation Sovereign, as well as an EC135 and a Bell 429," he says. Premier commenced private jet charter and management services in early 2010 using the Beechcraft Premier 1 and has since added a managed Learjet 45 fleet.

PremiAir, which also manages and operates The London Heliport at Battersea, supplies pilots to the UK police forces with contracts throughout the UK and in Northern Ireland.