Biggin Hill airport is one of the primary business aviation airports when it comes to handling traffic for the Olympics, but Perfect Aviation does not believe the event will bring exceptional opportunities to UK-based operators who will likely be disadvantaged operating from bases lying within heavily restricted airspace.

"It will probably be good for the FBOs and British airports generally," says ceo Will Curtis, "but the overseas business jet operators will likely take the lion's share of the business aviation traffic flying into London. Our strategy this summer will be to fly our existing charter clients out of the UK and Moscow to Mediterranean destinations especially. Ideally, we don't want our aircraft in the London area at all during the games as we see the heavy restrictions and likely confusion as being detrimental to our productivity. We have seen similar situations with World Cup football events where operator's high hopes ended up being frustrated by ATC restrictions and hiked airport fees."

Perfect Aviation, Switzerland's only publicly listed business aviation management and charter operator, has announced that it is further increasing the scope of its operations at Biggin Hill.

Two additional managed aircraft, a second Learjet 45 and a Challenger 605, have recently joined the European fleet, and the UK and Portuguese AOC operations have also been further strengthened with some new additions to the UK-based management team.

Paul Castleton recently joined the company as charter sales director. Castleton is responsible for developing new business for the UK-based fleet as well as managing existing client relationships.

Lisa Crew joined Perfect earlier this year as senior sales manager.