Association Announces New No Plane No Gain Advocacy Tools
Available For Industry
The Voting Membership of the National Business Aviation
Association (NBAA) re-elected three directors during its 63rd
Annual Meeting on October 20 at the Georgia World Congress Center
in Atlanta, GA. They are:
- Paul Anderson, vice president, UTFlight
- Jeffrey W. Lee, director, flight operations, IBM
Corporation
- Douglas Schwartz, manager, global aviation services, Conoco
Phillips
Paul Anderson is the vice president of UTFlight. Previously, he
held several positions in a customer service role with UTC company
Sikorsky Aircraft. Anderson graduated from West Point in 1981, and
served for five years in the U.S. Army as a helicopter maintenance
officer and pilot. He holds a private pilot's license for
fixed-wing aircraft, as well as a helicopter ATP.
Past NBAA Chairman Jeff Lee is the director of flight operations
for IBM Corporation, which he joined in 1980 as a copilot. He
earned a B.S. in engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy and
was a USAF flight instructor from 1974 to 1980. Prior to joining
the NBAA Board in 2001, he served first as vice chairman and then
chairman of NBAA's Corporate Aviation Management Committee.
Doug Schwartz is manager of global aviation services at
ConocoPhillips, where he is responsible for the oversight of
aircraft scheduling, staffing and supervision, maintenance, and
facilities management. Prior to joining ConocoPhillips, Schwartz
worked as vice president of flight operations & standards at
TAG Aviation and as aviation director at AT&T. Before that, he
worked for 25 years for FlightSafety International, the world's
largest commercial aviation training company. Schwartz holds a
bachelor's degree in economics from Vanderbilt University, and
attended the University of Houston Graduate School of Business.
These directors' terms will conclude at the NBAA 66th Annual
Meeting & Convention in 2013.
The association also unveiled new print and video advocacy
tools to help those in the business aviation community explain the
value of business aviation to citizens, companies
and communities across the country. The resources have been
produced in conjunction with the No Plane No Gain advocacy
campaign, which is focused on educating policymakers and opinion
leaders about the industry's many benefits.
"We want to keep the No Plane No Gain campaign's message
relevant and fresh, and as part of that effort, we continue to
develop resources to help people in the industry put forward the
true face of business aviation with facts, well-grounded data and
illustrative profiles to highlight its many benefits," said NBAA
President and CEO Ed Bolen.
Bolen first pointed to a new study showing that small and
mid-sized companies using business aviation achieved greater
success in important measures of performance than comparable
companies that do not use business aircraft. The study, conducted
by NEXA Advisors, LLC, demonstrates that the enterprise value
business aviation confers on Standard & Poor's 500 index
companies also applies to S&P 600 small-cap companies. Bolen
referenced a second new advocacy resource, NBAA's newly updated
Business Aviation Fact Book, a comprehensive profile of the
industry that provides real-world information and data about the
industry from respected sources, including the Federal Aviation
Administration, Department of Commerce, General Aviation
Manufacturers Association (GAMA) and surveys of companies in the
industry.
Additionally, Bolen noted, four new advocacy videos detail the
rich history of business aviation, its role in supporting the
nation's economy and transportation systems today, and its
essential role in promoting job creation, helping companies
succeed, providing transport to towns with little or no airline
service, and supporting flights to help people and communities in
times of crisis. The four new videos, available in DVD and online
formats, include:
- Business Aviation: The Story of NBAA and the Industry, a video
that chronicles the history of the business aviation community and
details NBAA's work to support companies using business
aircraft.
- Business Aviation Works, a presentation that shows how business
aircraft benefit companies of all sizes, and help them achieve
their business objectives.
- No Plane No Gain: An Industry Makes Its Voice Heard, a video
detailing the progress of the industry's advocacy campaign, and
explaining the actions individuals can take to contribute to the
success of the program.
- Business Aviation's Airlift to Haiti, a documentary of the
industry's work to support disaster-relief missions coordinated by
people across the business aviation community to help victims of
the earthquake that struck the island nation of Haiti on January
12, 2010.