Director, Air Carrier Relations and Safety

Job Description

Job Description

Description :

Job Title- Director, Air Carrier Relations and Safety

Department- Elevate Aviation Group

Reports to- President, EAG

Location- Dallas, TX

Who we are-

Elevate Aviation Group, established in 2003, provides air transportation, travel consultancy, aircraft acquisitions and aircraft management services to some of the most recognized names in business, sports, entertainment, government, and higher education. Elevate Aviation Group’s wholly owned subsidiaries, Private Jet Services, Elevate Jet, and Elevate MRO, share a mission to provide aircraft owners and flyers unsurpassed service, safety, and counsel. Whether clients require charter flights, large group travel, aircraft management services, aircraft maintenance or aircraft acquisition services, Elevate Aviation Group delivers highly personalized solutions to meet each client’s unique needs 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year to any destination.

Summary of position-

The Director, Carrier Relations is directly responsible for managing and expanding all of the company’s third-party air carrier relationships on a global basis. In this role, The Director, Carrier Relations will develop, grow and manage relationships with key recurring partners and ad hoc provider of lift for Transport Category and Executive Aircraft, in both passenger and cargo configurations while maintaining the highest focus on safety standards to include the vetting of operators to meet the EAG safety requirements.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities-

Carrier Relations

• Negotiate preferred carrier agreements including block charter agreements.
• Develop and maintain new carrier solutions as the company grows its needs.
• Assess the market, analyze trends and make recommendations on preferred carriers based on pricing, models and methods.
• Manage escalations and resolve concerns when carriers fail to perform
• Maintain and add to the company’s proprietary database of carriers.
• Maintain the fleet database to include aircraft features, layouts, photos, and safety status.
• Work directly with Operations to properly educate the sourcing function to locate and provide the most effective lift for operations.

Safety

Requirements :

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities-

Education & Experience-

Schedule & Travel-

Miscellaneous-