EBAN is delighted to reveal that

this year’s winner of a Jeppesen

Flight Case is Antonio Regueiro,

who is the ops director of Torrejonbased

Principe Aviacion – which

is a division of a larger real

estate company.

We asked Regueiro what he and his

pilots look for in an FBO, when

travelling across the width and

breadth of Europe. He told us: “You

want a place that’s convenient and

quick to handle your aircraft. We like

comfortable places to stay. Our guests

like a drink and a nice sitting room,

some magazines and maybe a bar –

courtesy or not.

“It’s also important to have

facilities for paperwork and often we

ask them to provide taxi or car rental.”

Regueiro says many European

FBOs do a good job, but there are two

which have particularly impressed

him during the recent past.

He said: “We usually visit PrivatAir

if we fly into Paris le Bourget. They’re

easy to find, offer a good lounge, a

nice bar, the attendants are quick and

the courtesy bus is always there

waiting for us as soon as we land, so

we don’t have to waste time.

“I haven’t been through all the

FBOs at le Bourget but I’ve visited

a few and I definitely like this one

the best.”

Also worthy of special mention,

said Regueiro, is Execair in Glasgow.

“I’ve only been there once,” he said,

“but they left me with a very good

impression. We were flying our new

Premier across from America so we

had done quite a bit of flying that day.

“The Execair staff were there late

at night and without any fuss, took us

to our hotel and picked us up early

the next morning. The whole process

went very smoothly and I thought the

Glaswegian staff were very nice

people, with a lovely accent!”

The Spanish real estate company,

of which Principe is a part, uses its

Premier and King Air 200 roughly 65

per cent of the time and the rest is put

out to charter. The company picked

up the aircraft in May and says

despite a few teething problems, is

delighted with the acquisition.

Regueiro explained: “It’s a very

nice aeroplane – fast, comfortable

and more stand-up space than the

King Air 200. The speed is a great

asset and we often overtake

commercial traffic on the way to

England, for example. We had a few

teething problems but it’s okay now.”