FBOs
Southern Sky Aviation: Boosting Business at Trent Lott International
In just three years, the company has made itself at home at KPQL
Aerial photo of Southern Sky FBO at KPQL
An aerial photo shows Southern Sky Aviation at Mississippi's Trent Lott International Airport. Since the company took over the FBO operation there, it has nearly tripled the fuel sales.

When Southern Sky Aviation took over the lone FBO at Mississippi’s Trent Lott International Airport (KPQL) in 2021, the U.S. and indeed much of the world was still in the midst of the global Covid pandemic.

At the time, the airport was closed due to a widening and resurfacing project on its 6,500-foot runway, so the new owners took advantage of the situation by conducting a $1 million renovation on the two-decade-old facility. “It was kind of like an old bus terminal; it had that atmosphere,” said Tim Thomas, the company’s v-p of FBO operations and general manager of the Pascagoula facility. “We made it more of an FBO. We really just revamped the entire structure here and made it look a lot more professional.”

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