Jet Aviation
Cyril Martiniere is an accomplished aviation professional with extensive experience in strategic and operational leadership within the MRO sector. Currently serving as VP MRO Services and General Manager at Jet Aviation, Cyril oversees the Basel site and European MRO operations since January 2011. Cyril has held various leadership roles, including VP Regional Operations Europe and Managing Director for Geneva MRO and FBO operations. Additionally, Cyril is the founder and secretary of AGAA, contributing to the advancement of business aviation. Previous experience includes roles at RUAG Aviation as Technical Support Manager and several positions in technical management and project leadership at FRANCE AVIATION and UNI AIR ENTREPRISE. Cyril holds a Master’s degree in Engineering from CESI Ecole d'Ingénieurs and has completed various professional development courses, including Six Sigma and regulatory training.
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Jet Aviation
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Jet Aviation as a maintenance organization when he bought the former Globe Air hangars in Basel, Switzerland and opened the first maintenance facility for business aircraft in Europe almost 50 years ago.Two years later, he expanded the company and entered a new line of business by acquiring the Pilatus maintenance and airline handlingoperations in Zurich and Geneva. Then realizing that customers may likely still require transport while their own aircraft are being maintained, he also began offering aircraft charter and management services to European and Middle Eastern customers.During the 1970s, Jet Aviation started opening facilities abroad, beginning with a maintenance facility in Germany and an FBO in Jeddah. In 1977, it began offering completions and refurbishment services at Basel, completing its first ever V.I.P.-outfitted aircraft – a Convair 880M — that same year. Today, Jet Aviation Basel is one of the largest independent completions center in the world.Continuing its expansion in Europe and the Middle East throughout the 1980s, Jet Aviation also successfully entered the U.S. market, making it the first global player in the business aviation industry. Consolidation and steady growth marked the 1990s, with the opening of a maintenance and FBO facility in Singapore in 1995 and an aircraft management and charter firm in Hong Kong, China in 2000.As pioneers of private business aviation, the Hirschman family built Jet Aviation up over nearly 40 years from a small local maintenance operation to a highly reputed global business aviation services provider, before deciding to sell the family-run business to Permira Funds, a private European equity firm, in 2005. Three years later, Permira sold Jet Aviation to General Dynamics on November 5, 2008. Jet Aviation currently operates as an independent business unit within the General Dynamics Aerospace Group and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.