Wheels Up Experience announced a significant step toward becoming the best-run private aviation company with the forthcoming opening of a new, state-of-the-art maintenance facility at Palm Beach International Airport. Due to open this year, the facility at PBI represents a strategic shift in the allocation of the company’s maintenance facilities, with an end goal of better aligning resources to the company’s geographic network and flight demand density. In preparation for the opening at PBI, resources will be reallocated from existing, underutilized facilities where there is reduced organic network flow and flight traffic. The immediate result will be the closure of existing maintenance operations in Cincinnati and Broomfield, CO; the relocation of mobile service units in Sacramento, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City and certain service units in Burbank, CA to the Eastern U.S.; and the forthcoming relocation of resources currently stationed in Wheels Up’s Fort Lauderdale facility to PBI. Wheels Up has coordinated with MRO providers FEAM Aero and AVEX Aviation in Cincinnati and Broomfield, CO, respectively, to provide a direct path for placement opportunities for affected staff.
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