Professional Pilot, July 2020

2020 PRASE WINNERS Wilson Air Ctr CHA is 1 US FBO Texas Jet FTW 2 Pentastar PTK 3 Signature MSP 4 Signature STP 5 Best US Independent Texas Jet FTW Most Improved Wilson Air Ctr CHA Pro Pilot readers returned 937 survey forms in the 47th annual PRASE Preferences Regarding Aviation Services and Equipment Survey of 2020 Original Pro Pilot FBO Survey initiated in 1974 Top US FBOs US Wilson Air Ctr CHA Independent Texas Jet FTW Most Improved Wilson Air Ctr CHA Small Chain Wilson Air Ctr Large Chain Million Air Top International FBOs Handlers Canada Skyservice YUL Mexico Uvavemex TLC Caribbean Jet Nassau NAS formerly Jet Aviation Latin America Aerosuppport FBO BOG Europe Farnborough Arpt FAB Middle East Africa Jet Aviation DXB Asia Hong Kong Business Av Ctr HKG FBO Personnel Line Tech Pat Walter Signature MSP CSR Betsy Wines Meridian TEB Other services Catering each region has a winner with no overall national one Northeast Rudys NJ area EJM Captain Darren Paul is an ATP with 14000 hrs of fl ight time logged He operates a Gulfstream G650ER to perform missions in the US Caribbean and Europe Hes selected and ranked 12 organizations and provided a total of 62 individual evaluations based on his fl ying experience His survey form is 1 of 937 received for our 2020 PRASE Survey 26 PROFESSIONAL PILOT July 2020 South Silver Lining MIA area Mountain Perfect Landing APA Midwest Atikis Flight Catering MN area West Stevies CA area Fuel Brand Phillips 66 Aviation Fuel Credit Card AVCARD by World Fuel Services Intl Trip Planning Universal Weather Aviation MRO West Star Aviation Pro Pilot Writer Karsten Shein Methodology Professional Pilot magazines PRASE Survey is an annual tabulation of customer opinions of aviation ground services Executives in charge of flight departments aviation managers chief pilots pilots CEOs and other qualified subscribers to Pro Pilot are polled once a year in order to determine the PRASE Winners List PRASE is the gold standard of aviation ground service leaders Pro Pilot uses a multistep process to ensure accurate PRASE Survey results 1 Ballots were sent to subscribers in 6 waves PRASE forms were sent to subscribers in Oct 2019 PRASE forms were sent with the Nov and Dec 2019 issues of Pro Pilot Additional forms were sent to Pro Pilot subscribers separately from the magazine in Jan Feb and Mar 2020 PRASE Survey form was shared on Pro Pilots website and social media accounts propilotmag com Facebook LinkedIn Instagram and Twitter We monitored closely every form received Subscribers were instructed to return their completed ballots to Professional Pilot in Alexandria VA Cutoff date for the 2020 PRASE Survey was April 10 2020 Late ballots were not included in the tally Strict checking was done and only 1 ballot per participant was allowed Voting was restricted to qualified Pro Pilot subscribers In categories where they compete members of organizations or individuals were not permitted to submit ballots Public relations marketing and advertising personnel are ineligible Ballots are checked thoroughly to ensure all information listed is current and correct Careful verification of FBO names is made since some names change because of mergers or acquisitions The 2020 PRASE Survey received a total of 937 ballots Of these forms a total of 799 met the Pro Pilot acceptance criteria and were used in the analysis A total of 138 ballots were disqualified due to inconsistencies errors duplications or lack of required information 2 Qualified ballots were transferred into a database and sent to Conklin de Decker a JSSI company for analysis 3 Database information was analyzed and tabulated by Conklin de Decker at its headquarters in Arlington TX A precount as a preliminary step was accomplished followed by a final count to determine the rankings and winners The winners list was finalized on April 17 2020