It's Exhibition season

Cello's team will be exhibiting again at EBACE in Geneva and for the first time at IMEX in Frankfurt during May. Time to catch up with established contacts in the industry as well as meeting new faces . Early interest from  the conference/incentive market  for this aircraft  has prompted Cello to  explore this market further.

In the office, we've all set ourselves up on SKYPE so if anyone needs to look at us now whilst talking !!- Well, its your choice !

Meanwhile in a rare moment of cooperation between Cello's commercial and operations departments!

Anyone care to identify an appropriate caption!!??- the best to be covered in the next blog

And its off to Scandinavia and Estonia for the aircraft and crew in the coming few days  . ACMI business is not part of our core strategy. The internal aircraft  configuration is not designed to support this sector. Nevertheless , some acmi work, has been contracted over the next few days . Nothing surprises anymore in the VIP air transport sector !

A few days off for annual maintenance

A little time away from  revenue generation for its annual 'medical' has been the order of the week  for G-RAJJ. 

So what happens when you need to  replace a soon to be time expired escape slide  during routine maintenance?

Well you can just remove and replace it it OR if you work for Cello, you can have a more interesting 5 minutes  with camera and team

An opportunity for  a little refresher  training for the crew

Missing revenue opportunities is always a difficult call and scheduling maintenance against diary periods  which are forecast as 'quiet times' and less invasive towards the revenue generating flying schedule is a bit of a dark art. However it has been achieved with limited down time over 5 days.

And so it's back into service for a full flying week ahead, touching 3 London airports plus  Nice, Faro, Blackpool  and Marseilles in the space of 7 days.