Executive Airlines (Booth No. 1529) has made a spectacular takeoff and confirmed its position as Spain’s second-ranking business aircraft operator. The Barcelona-based group plans to almost double its fleet from 19 aircraft to 29 within two years, highlighting the huge growth of the Spanish market. Since it started operations with just two aircraft in 2000, the company, owned by a leisure industry executive Manuel Lao and run by former professional soccer player Juli López Segú, has seen rapid growth.
López, 38, hung up his football boots seven years ago and, armed with an MBA, went to work for Lao at leading Spanish group Cirsa. Now as CEO of Executive Airlines, he explained that the next phase of its development will see international expansion from its operational Spanish bases of Madrid, Barcelona, Gerona and Valencia to encompass new facilities in the main European capitals. Commercial offices are planned in Russia, Dubai and Switzerland (probably here in Geneva) to be followed by bases in India, China and other Far Eastern countries after commercial agreements with local operators.
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