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FBO Survey 2007

When business aviation is booming, as it is now, nowhere is it more evident than at FBOs, the place at airports where everybody ends up hanging out, workin

By Matt Thurber • Editor-in-Chief

March 28, 2007

When business aviation is booming, as it is now, nowhere is it more evident than at FBOs, the place at airports where everybody ends up hanging out, working, planning, preparing, departing and arriving. FBOs are also the place where most people are introduced to non-airline aviation.

FBOs hire more entry-level workers than any other aviation service business, launching thousands of fresh young aviators–pilots, technicians, operations experts, marketers and managers–into satisfying (and occasionally lucrative) careers. And FBOs reflect the state of the industry. In good times, the fuel flows, business jets crowd the ramps and FBOs build new hangars and opulent terminals to welcome pilots, passengers and owners.

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