…Holds First AfBAC
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| Nuno Pereira |
African Business Aviation
Association (AfBAA) members have voted in Nuno Pereira, MD of Angola-based
BestFly, as the Association’s Vice-Chairman. According to AFBAA, “Nuno has been
regularly involved with AfBAA since inception with BestFly committing to its
Founding member status at an early stage. Since launch he has been extremely
active and a strong vocal representative for the organisation. He is frequently present at the AfBAA
symposia, AfBAA Pavilions, and also hosted the Association’s second members
only Rendezvous event, at BestFly’s Luanda home base in February 2015.”
Nuno will support
Association Founding Chairman Tarek Ragheb in lobbying African governments and
educating them about the benefits of business aviation to the economy; profile
raising of Africa’s position on the international aviation landscape; and in
his supplementary role as Chair of the Budgeting Committee will manage forward
finance and budgeting.
“We are delighted that
Nuno is taking up this prestigious and extremely important role for AfBAA. He
understands the Association, our mission and vision, as well as having
first-hand knowledge of the challenges affecting the growth of business
aviation on the continent,” said Ragheb. “Nuno is also an astute businessman
which will ensure he can add value to our strategic development. We thank
Achuzie Ezenagu for his work in this role until now, and look forward to
developing it further with Nuno.”
AfBAA is preparing for the
first ever African Business Aviation Conference, AfBAC, which will be held in
Cape Town, South Africa this year on 17 and 18 November. “The event is already attracting leading
aviation experts as speakers, and eminent aviation companies as sponsors”.
Confirmed speakers include representatives
from OEMs Bombardier and Gulfstream, as well as principal operator Execujet.
Nigeria-based fractional ownership business ANAP Jets is making its debut as an
AfBAA event sponsor as it takes an Emerald sponsorship, whilst Universal
Aviation and Weather Inc., which has been a consistent supporter of the
Association, takes Ruby sponsorship. The association has also announced
Ethiopian Airlines as the confirmed Official Carrier of the conference.
The new look conference
will incorporate international speakers from a wide range of industries. Alongside regular maintenance, finance and
training topics, new and varied panels will cover subjects including the use of
aircraft in anti-poaching, lessons to be learned from commercial aviation,
flying humanitarian missions in Africa and the pilot’s experience. An
Innovation Zone section will look at developing trends.
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