This year’s edition of the Aviation Achievement Awards was dedicated to organisations that have shown exceptional leadership, innovation and resilience within the aviation industry over the past 12 months, despite the challenge of uncertain market conditions due to COVID-19 travel restrictions.
The awards have a particular focus on the Middle East and winners were announced during a virtual ceremony, broadcast from Dubai, this week.
Philip Balaam, President, Inmarsat Aviation, said: “The aviation industry has once again shown its unwavering resilience over the past year, even when faced with a global pandemic. As our customers have navigated through the storm, it was imperative that we quickly understood their challenges, adapted our approach and provided the support that they needed, working side-by-side with our partner ecosystem…
The judges also outlined how the aviation industry has increased its focus on inflight connectivity as a means to meet evolving passenger needs and gain important efficiencies in operations and safety. Today, our services are onboard more than 13,000 aircraft worldwide and I am confident that our technology roadmap will maintain Inmarsat’s position as the aviation industry’s connectivity partner of choice for the future, building upon our 40 year heritage in global mobile connectivity.”
Kenneth Mitchen, Executive Director at Creative Middle East Media, organisers of the Aviation Achievement Awards, said: “Aviation has been significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic over the past year and we firmly believe it is more important than ever to highlight the inspirational achievements of companies within the industry, despite such a challenging environment. Our judges were particular impressed with the proactive attitude of Inmarsat in terms of supporting its aviation customers and remaining laser focused on providing world-class inflight connectivity solutions that not only meet passenger needs today, but will continue to meet them when air traffic returns on the upward trajectory.”
