{"id":428546,"date":"2026-02-16T11:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T11:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/428546\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T11:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T11:17:10","slug":"flight-pro-international-opens-office-at-farnborough-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/428546\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight Pro International opens office at Farnborough Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">Flight Pro International has opened an office at Farnborough Airport in the United Kingdom. The office is based within the terminal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">FPI increased its UK team in January 2026 by adding Jo Sutherden and Kelly Long, who will operate from the Farnborough office. FPI had increased trip supervisory personnel to the UK team throughout 2024 and 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">\u201cSince the year 2020, our UK aviation handling business has experienced year-over-year double-digit growth,\u201d said Alan Owen, senior manager at FPI UK. \u201cWe\u2019ve continued to recruit talent to not only sustain our growth, but more importantly to continue increasing the volume of the white glove services that our clients expect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">The Farnborough office provides support for FPI\u2019s visiting and locally-based clients while building relationships with the airport and its vendors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">Owen said FPI is a service management firm for clients at UK-based airports. \u201cWhile FBOs and regular handling agents are dealing with numerous flights and related facility issues, the UK team is solely focused on FPI\u2019s clientele aircraft operations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">Farnborough Airport plans to increase weekend movements. The airport has vendors and engineering support for Gulfstream and Bombardier aircraft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">FPI\u2019s UK headquarters is based in London Luton, and arrangements can be made for FPI\u2019s UK team to cover airports in the Midlands, Scotland and Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">FPI UK services include securing landing slots, flight plan filing and Eurocontrol slot timing adjustments. The company liaises with handling organizations, including off-airport catering, ground transport, hotel and other service vendors. FPI is credentialed for covering the UK Air Passenger Duty tax required for operations into the UK. The company communicates with regulators and the Civil Aviation Authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flight Pro International has opened an office at Farnborough Airport in the United Kingdom. The office is based&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-428546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}