10. Banyan Air Services, Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport (FXE), Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
In late January last year, one of the 20,000-sq-ft hangars belonging to Fort Lauderdale-based Banyan resembled a cross between a medical supply warehouse and a Costco. Crates of medicines, boxes of surgical supplies, cases of bottled water, tents and other emergency goods were stacked 12 feet high in some cases, while forklifts raced to load pallets onto a nearly endless stream of business aircraft ranging from Caravans to Gulfstreams. As part of the emergency response to the Haiti disaster, company owner Don Campion offered the use of his facility as a staging area for the loading of aircraft on mercy missions. “That was a really rewarding time to see corporate America step up,” said Campion. “For that period between January 12 and April 1 when there was no airline service, business aviation filled a gap and the world saw a tremendous blessing.”
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