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By MICHAEL RAPLEY, Owner of PROAIR Aviation Limited


PROAIR Aviation, one Europe’s leading private aviation companies, and since 2009 based in Jersey, offer the island a full range of private jet management, charter and aircraft sales services, and here the company explain how bases like the Channel Islands are helping their industry.


Growth in one industry can sometimes be encouraged by another unrelated business sector. In Jersey, one of the biggest attractions for incoming 1-1-K’ other than tax relief, is lifestyle & security, and simplifying travel to and from the island is often the first thing on people’s agenda.


This requirement is what brings the islands regular jet users, occupying flights with friends and family or business meetings to destinations not usually within direct reach


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On a recent flight four directors of a local legal practice needed to urgently sign some papers in London, and having initially called at 8 a.m. the flight was booked


travellers turn to flying privately as a means to making better use of their personal and business time. We saw an opportunity to grow the business locally as nobody else was capable of providing


and the legal papers needed signing by 1 p.m. the same day. This type of request isn't so uncommon, and in such cases can often be a real viable solution based on time saved alone.


Since PROAIR arrived in Jersey, we have seen a growing number of jet


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