Based near Vienna in Austria, Aviation Business Consulting was established 18 months ago by business aviation veteran, Paul Davey. The purpose? To assist emerging EU countries with the foundation of FBO handling operations and executive aircraft charter services.

Davey’s contract book recently took him to the Czech capital Prague where he spent a year helping found Aviation Service Handling FBO, which boasts a large ramp with an adjacent hangar and office building; next he will be concentrating on the 10 countries set to join the EU in May, with a view to offering airports, handling companies and potential executive aircraft operators the benefit of his expertise.

Davey told EBAN: “I began assisting Eastern Bloc countries in the early 90s with consultancy projects in the former USSR and Hungary, laying the foundations for business aircraft handling centres at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo and Vnukovo airports, and at Budapest’s Ferihegy airport.”

At the time, he was also chairman of the EBAA’s Airports and Handling committee, and during his presidium he co-authored (with his deputy and fellow aviation veteran, Robert D Catt) the ‘code of practice’ for the handling of executive aircraft.

Soon after its conception, Davey says the code of practice was not only warmly welcomed as a much-needed guideline by the European business aviation community, but was also officially taken on by IBAC as the standard for executive aircraft handling around the world.

Aviation Business Consulting also offers the online sale of executive charter flights utilising internet-based software, through which customers can search for and find available executive aircraft for any desired private or business trip.

Said Davey: “With this service, I’m bringing customers and aircraft operators together, in a highly unique manner, not practised to date in this region or Eastern Europe.”