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We’re proud to announce a new partnership with Zimex Aviation Ltd. , a Swiss airline group with over 55 years of operational excellence. Under the agreement, AVEM AERO will deliver out-of-hours and weekend OCC support to Zimex Aviation, enhancing service reliability and ensuring uninterrupted operational oversight.

At AVEM AERO, our mission is to deliver maximum value by combining operational expertise with flexibility. This partnership is another step in growing that expertise with a strong and respected operator.

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Running an urgent air cargo business is like being a venture capitalist — the risks are too high

More than happy to see that Nikolay Kurbanov experience is of interest to business publications outside the aviation community.

“We were selling the flight at night, operating it during the day, and returning the plane to the homebase airport in the evening”

Paying a fixed monthly fee, whether you fly or not, is a money-losing model in the urgent air cargo niche. Fixed-term charters are an unpredictable business, there are statistics, but they are like a “black swan” — you can calculate up to a certain point, and then everything changes. We work in a niche where little can be predicted, respectively — guaranteed. The guaranteed payment model is initially unacceptable for us, although this is the standard model for regular programs.

What we did instead: we picked up planes any day of the week when they were on stand-by at a company that operates regular cargo transportation.

They were saying: tomorrow or the day after tomorrow the plane is free, and we take it to work. It is impossible for a regular air cargo company because of the bureaucratic process. We have a flexible management model, so we can take a plane for a few days. Thus, the partner increases the efficiency of the fleet, and we have the opportunity to earn.

The idea seemed crazy, but it worked. We were using the gaps in the schedule of regular flights in the daytime (from 6 UTC to 18 UTC). We were selling the flight at night, operating it during the day, and returning the plane to the homebase airport in the evening. This is how our relationship developed."

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Running an urgent air cargo business is like being a venture capitalist — the risks are too high - Business in the News Written by Nikolay Kurbanov, Managing Director of AVEM AERO Imagine the level of risk venture...