Speaking at this year’s Canadian Business Aviation Association Convention in Montreal, ICAO president Dr. Assad Kotaite said, “The very constructive relationship that exists between ICAO and the International Business Aviation Council is based largely on our common objective of improving aviation safety. The expanding business aviation community, with more than 20,000 aircraft, represents a growing proportion of aircraft movements [with] the responsibility of contributing progressively to the safety and efficiency of the world’s congested airspace and airports.”
Kotaite was addressing a special membership dinner, where he and a number of senior ICAO officials were the guests of CBAA and IBAC, a few days after ICAO had officially received IBAC’s international standards for business aircraft operations. Kotaite noted that “this practical and valuable code of best practice will...improve the already excellent safety record of business aviation while at the same time accelerate the implementation of global harmonized safety standards, another of our mutual objectives.”
