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stay agile and build a workforce that can
be redeployed internally on a wider scale.
The current situation has also enabled
the acceleration of technology, where we
investigate and implement new procedures
supported by automation," says Goovaerts.
"Furthermore, we have recently invested in
GSE across our APAC operations and will
continue to do so."
Of course, many expansion plans and
capital expenditure (CapEx) acquisitions
have been put on hold due to the current
situation.
"We need to assess the forecast on
demand, location by location, and decide
where we should continue investing. We
definitely expect a recovery of the industry, faster for business aviation compared to
commercial aviation. Domestic trips in the
USA and intra region in Europe are ramping
up fast. More and more we will see a niche

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of customers who traditionally flew commercial, trying to book charter or fractional
general aviation," says Aragon. "We will see
more of this growth internationally as the
countries start opening their borders and
lightening the restrictions."
Gamba highlights that governments tend
to emphasize that they can only promise
financial support to airlines under a number of conditions.
"And within these conditions, there are
'green' conditions. One should indeed think
in terms of a longer-term perspective and
make sure that we have an environmentally
friendly industry; but in current extreme

conditions there is only one thing that matters and that is to make sure that there is a
tomorrow for the industry," he says.
"We are involved in discussions with
EASA on a number of policies that we
can put together in order to help our
CO2; footprint to improve, specifically via
the acquisition of electric GSE," Gamba
concludes. "We are discussing with the
European Commission on ways to get the
likes of 'green bonds' to help invest in new
equipment. We are having these discussions
in parallel to the pandemic rather than
because of the pandemic."

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