Northpoint Aviation Services Ltd
Chris Cain serves as Policy Director for the Strategic Aviation Special Interest Group (SASIG) since September 2015, leading research and policy initiatives across local authority members in the aviation sector. In addition, Chris is a Director at Northpoint Aviation, providing consultancy in policy, regulation, and sustainability related to air transport. Previous roles include Principal at The Aviation Strategy and Policy Consultancy, Airport Project Director at Newquay Cornwall Airport, and Regional Airports Manager at the Department for Transport. Chris holds a BA Hons in Geography from the University of Oxford and an M Phil in Town Planning from Newcastle University, complemented by further education in Excel Modelling, Statistical Tests, Economic Appraisal, and GIS at the University of Oxford.
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Northpoint Aviation Services Ltd
Northpoint is a combine of aviation professionals offering research and consultancy services to the aviation industry and associated stakeholders . The company has two Directors, twelve Associates, and seven support roles. The company regularly works with other consultancies and organisations, including a number of academic institutions, as required by the specifics of individual project briefs. Northpoint has at the heart of its ‘modus operandi’, working to cultivate links with and between academia, airports, air operators, public bodies and regulators. The company is often concerned with putting together business cases for infrastructure investments, economic impact studies, and route and revenue development programmes. Northpoint has emerged as a specialist boutique consultancy with niche expertise. Notably: - Extensive experience of airports related policy work, including lobbying and influencing policy positions, and up to date knowledge of Airport development and investment in the UK and beyond. - A long-standing interest in regional airports and their employment clusters, regional development, peripheral region transport & aviation. - Expert Support contracts which include secretariat and research functions for several industry related bodies such as Strategic Aviation Special Interest Group (SASIG), UK Regional and Business Airports (RABA) Group, Smart Peripheral and Remote Airports 2020 (SPARA2020), the All Party Parliamentary Group on Regional Airports and previously the National Connectivity Taskforce (NCTF) - Framework Agreement (with other partners) on both Transport Scotland's and the Welsh Government's aviation panels. MD Basil O'Fee co-moderates a LinkedIn Group (Air Transport in Remote Regions) with Prof. Rico Merket of the University of Sydney. http://www.linkedin.com/groupRegistration?gid=3470404 Member of the Air Transport Research Society and Scottish Council for Development and Industry. Offices in Inverness and Kent.