Finlay Taylor Email & Phone Number

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

• Oversight of flight planning and slot management, ensuring all flightplan and crewbriefing packages are accurate and up to date. • Monitoring CTOTs and their regulations and working out the most cost/time effective means of navigating them.• Flight watch over a 40+ fleet of mixed aircraft and keeping flight board up to date; processing of movement messages and ensuring aircraft timings are correct.• Acting as point of liaison between crew, ground handling agents, airports and ATC ensuring communication between all relevant parties is accurate and made in timely manner.• Assisting Operations and Crewing Controllers in running of daily flying schedule.• Additionally responsible for training colleagues on the above tasks.

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

• Assisting in the oversight of the EFB system and devices. • Troubleshooting any issues EFB users have.• Testing functionality of new app updates, ensuring no confliction with other software.

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

• Setting up owners’ trips and ad-hoc charters including: ground handling, checking accuracy and compliance of permit status for countries, flight planning, ensuring FTL in limits, coordinating HOTAC, flight watch and carrying out risk assessments of flights.• Plan trips on a range of aircraft from light to heavy jets, destinations vary from short to occasional long haul trips that involve extensive research and planning.• End to end flight planning via Euro Control’s NOP, SRD and PPS’s fast routing system. Experience with a range of routings from domestic to transatlantic.• Additionally, provided internal and external photographs of new additions to the fleet which were then used for marketing/PR.

Castle Donington, England, United Kingdom

• Independently setting up entire passenger and cargo ad-hoc charters from the initial quoting and issuing contracts to personally ground handling the aircraft post-dispatch.• Experience on RocketRoute flightplanning and AirOps operations system.• Manage disruptions, problem solving to ensure any delays are kept to a minimum - communicating and escalating if necessary. Ensure any issues are resolved and customers are informed in a timely manner.• Trained on ramp handling the King Air B200, Cessna 404 and 406 - including fuelling and towing.

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

• Ensuring deliveries are made to customers in their required time: with any delays being communicated in a timely manner.• Problem solving any issues with the customer’s order independently with few resources available whilst providing a high level of customer service.• Experience driving a 3.5T vehicle: maintaining a professional image while doing so and ensuring vehicle is in a presentable condition and all daily maintenance checks have been carried out before departing.

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Additionally acted as Operations Assistant: August 2018 – March 2020.• Assisted in overseeing the running of the dispatch department.• Preparation of flight deck and cabin crew paperwork including flight plans, manifests, general declarations, loadsheets. • Maintain airport and company standards throughout turnaround, ensuring safe working environment for ground staff and passengers.• Prioritise tasks and manage arrival and departure process for variety of airlines, including assessing timeline of turnaround and resolving any potential issues.• Acting as point of liaison between crew, airport departments and Swissport.• Training on several systems such as: Altea CM/FM, INK DCS and Avinet for airlines including: Qatar Airways, KLM/Air France, SAS, Finnair, Swiss, Brussels, TUI and a number of different charter operators.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom