Illinois Facility Takes First Place in FBO Survey

J.A. Air Center at Aurora [Ill.] Municipal Airport is the top-rated business aviation ground-support facility in the Americas, according to the 2011 FBO Survey by BJT sister publication Aviation International News. Following Aurora in the top 10 were Global Select at Sugarland [Texas] Regional Airport; XJet at Colorado's Centennial Airport; Pentastar Aviation at Oakland County [Mich.] International Airport; Hangar 10 at Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport in Missouri; Tampa International Jet Center at Tampa [Fla.] International Airport; Wilson Air Center at Memphis [Tenn.] International Airport; Fargo [N.D.] Jet Center at Hector International Airport; Wilson Air Center at North Carolina's Douglas International Airport; and Banyan Air Center at Fort Lauderdale [Fla.] Executive Airport.

Pilots, flight attendants, dispatchers and other AIN subscribers who have frequent interaction with FBOs provided a total of 23,452 evaluations of more than 1,700 facilities worldwide in the AIN survey. Full survey results for FBOs in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean appear in the April issue of Aviation International News. FBOs in the Eastern Hemisphere will be covered in the May issue.