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The newly inaugurated Australian Business Aircraft Association is framed closely on the highly effective American National Business & Aircraft Association (NBAA). Corporate operators of aircraft like the Falcon jet
Australian Business Aircraft Association Launched
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Australian Business Aircraa Association Aims To Improve Standing of Corporate Aviation
The Australian Business Aircraft Association (ABAA) held its inaugural meeting on November 5, 1986 in Sydney and was attended by nearly fifty interested parties. ABAA has been a long time coming with previous attempts at its formation failing. However, with the enormous growth in this area in recent years and the need to effectively promote and protect their particular interests, it is now an Association whose time is right.
The groundswell of the impetus for its formation came from corporate pilots who encouraged their companies to form their own Association. The past decade has seen a substantial change in attitude towards corporate aircraft and a far larger number of major Australian companies now fly their own business aircraft. An increasing number of companies are also recognising the cost efficiency and wealth/profit creating potential of operating their own aircraft often to remote and inaccessible parts of Australia where much time would be wasted just getting there by normal airline routings. Top management can now be taken to a field situation to solve a problem or exploit an opportunity with a minimum of trouble and the least expenditure of expensive executive time.
Founder members of ABAA read like a Who’s Who of Australian business: ANI, BHP, Bond Corporation, Consolidated Press, CRA/Comalco, Esso, Shell, Westfield, Qintex, Ariadne, etc. Many other aviation companies such as Hawker de Havilland, Pacific Aviation, British Aerospace, Aeromil and Hawker Pacific have joined as Associate or Affiliated members. The companies also operate a wide variety of planes ranging from turboprops to airline-class multi-engined jets.
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