Jet Aviation
Elaine Lapotosky is an experienced executive in staffing and operations management, currently serving as Vice President of Staffing at Jet Aviation since December 2019. Prior to this role, Elaine held the position of Sr. Director of Operations for Crew Services USA at Jet Professionals from July 2004 to December 2019, where responsibilities included developing marketing strategies, managing financial activities, and overseeing day-to-day operations. Elaine's background also includes roles as Account Executive at Asset Staffing, Reinsurance Specialist at Stop Loss Insurance Brokers Inc, and Abandoned Property Accounting Assistant at MFS Investment Management. Elaine's education is from New York University, demonstrating a strong foundation for a successful career in the industry.
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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.