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The Blades is the world’s only aerobatic airline. Achieving airline status requires the highest levels of safety.

Airline status
Accredited by the Civil Aviation Authority to fly fare-paying passengers on close formation aerobatic sorties, The Blades, uniquely in the world, hold a Commercial Air Transport Air Operator's Certificate. This means that the aircraft are engineered to airline standards, the pilots are qualified airline captains, and the procedures, both on the ground and in the air, are airline standard too.

Rigorous standards
To have achieved and maintained such exacting standards of safety with such an innovative product suite means that The Blades have re-defined many of the standards for general aviation flying. Airline status means that our passengers are in the safest and most skilled of hands. The corporate flying events are underpinned by operational procedures and performance standards that beat the most rigorous international benchmarks.

Safety commitment
The Blades’ commitment to safety explains why these top-class corporate events have been booked by companies from some of the most risk-aware, and risk-averse, corporations across the globe.

For more details of our safety procedures, risks addressed and insurances held, please contact us or read more.

 

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Why be an airline?
The primary aim is to enable passengers to experience safely the thrill of formation flying and, (if they wish) formation aerobatic flying in high performance aircraft flown by exceptional ex-RAF pilots. By law it is not permitted to sell seats in aircraft or to carry fare-paying passengers in an aircraft unless you hold an Air Operator's Certificate (AOC). The grant of an AOC requires the Operator (in this case 2Excel Aviation Ltd - trading as 2Excel and The Blades) to demonstrate and an extremely high standard of procedures across the whole of its operation. This applies at every level, from ground handling through engineering, licensing, testing, auditing, risk management to, of course, flying. 2Excel’s Operations Manual sets out procedures, processes and standards that promote safe operations and defines the procedures that mitigate all the risks involved in passenger carrying operations. It is a unique, very thorough, and continually updated manual that was the product of a very long risk assessment!

Who grants the Air Operator’s Certificate?


Who grants the Air Operator’s Certificate? 
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is the Department for Transport’s aviation department, empowered to assess and authorise public transport flying operations. The Certificate means that the CAA have assessed all of the Company’s rules, regulations, procedures and practices against the internationally-accepted rules of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) and found that 2Excel fully complies with those regulations. With this AOC, and according to the rules laid down under it, The Blades can legally fly fare-paying passengers.


What Does That Mean?



From 2Excel’s business perspective, this means that The Blades can deliver unforgettable safe corporate events to the most challenging markets.

From 2Excel and The Blades' clients’ perspective it means that they can be just as confident in the safety of the aircraft, facilities and pilots as they would be if they flew with British Airways, Virgin or Quantas.

From your corporate responsibility side it means that the Government has done much of your due diligence for you and assessed The Blades as more than fit to provide the service that they agree to deliver to you.

How Are Standards Maintained?


Every year the company has to be re-accredited. This means that it is audited and assessed by inspectors from the CAA in order to ensure that it is operating as safely as it says it will, and to confirm that it is following the procedures laid down in the Operations Manual. Not only did the company become globally accredited within its first year of operations, but it was also one of the first airlines to be accredited by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) when EASA took over operational aviation regulations in the UK in July 2008. Furthermore, The Blades did so at the highest level; that of Commercial Air Transport.

For more details on the safety procedures, risks addressed and insurances held by 2Excel and The Blades, please contact us.

 

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