What comes to mind when you think of the National Business Aviation Association? If you say the NBAA represents traditional corporate flight departments with full-time professional pilots flying turbine-powered aircraft, you would be correct. At least that describes the core of the NBAA. But Ed Bolen, president and CEO of the hugely successful association, says that picture has to change.
The way Bolen sees it, a conventional business flight department just can’t effectively lobby in Washington against the airlines and other groups that want to burden business flying with new restrictions and costs. That’s why he wants anybody and everybody who flies any type of aircraft to band together under the NBAA banner to promote and protect the business of flying for business.
