The Allplane Podcast

Executive aviation has the allure of the uber-exclusive.

While private jets remain the ultimate status symbol, entrepreneurs like former RAF pilot Adam Twidell have been working hard to make them more accessible. The company he co-founded with his wife, PrivateFly, has brought transparency and convenience to executive jet booking.

In this episode of the podcast, I speak with Adam about private jets, but also about his entrepreneurial journey and the way PrivateFly has leveraged digital channels to carve for itself a place at this very exclusive segment of the industry and how it launched the wildly popular “most scenic airport” contest, that got massive media coverage worldwide (disclaimer: I have been a member of the jury a couple of times!).

Airliner procurement often involves thinking 20 years in the future. Is this still possible? With the aviation industry in complete turmoil, we wanted to find out how the different aircraft manufacturers and aircraft programmes around the world…

Addison Schonland is the co-founder of AirInsight, a consultancy and media business (with whom I have had the chance to collaborate on several occasions) and someone that knows the aviation inside out.

It is always interesting to speak with him to get the pulse of the industry and this is exactly what I’ve done in this second episode of the Allplane podcast…

Sal Artigas is a commercial pilot and aviation entrepreneur. In this episode he will give us some insights about life as a pilot, flying turboprops in places as different as the Maldives and Northern Ireland. We will also speak about his experience setting up a helicopter operator in Barcelona and his popular youtube channel, where hundreds of thousands of visitors check some really cool airport approaches…