Angus Batey has been contributing to various titles within the Aviation Week Network since 2009. He has reported from military bases, industrial facilities, trade shows and conferences, on topics ranging from defense and space to business aviation, advanced air mobility and cybersecurity.
A new item has been added to the already lengthy list of challenges facing the UK’s business aviation sector as it struggles to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic: effective communication with government.
The European Business Aviation Association and General Aviation Manufacturers Association have joined with 11 other air transport bodies to urge European Union leaders to link COVID-19 recovery funding initiatives to ongoing carbon-reduction programs.
The jury is still out on whether business aviation will see long-term benefits from the raft of redundancies caused across the aerospace sector from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.