A YEADON-based private aviation company has beaten off competition from across Europe to take tenth place in industry rankings.

Multiflight has made it into the top tier of European fixed based operators (companies offering private jet services at airports) - ahead of Milan, Stockholm, Cannes and Paris.

The company was voted into tenth place by qualified, aircraft operating readers of European Business Air News (EBAN) in the 2018 annual FBO Survey.

First place in the survey went to London (Stansted): Universal Aviation UK. Second was Geneva: Jet Aviation Geneva.

Multiflight’s handling manager Heather Borrowdale said: “To be ranked 10th in the whole of Europe as an FBO facility, when facing competition from much bigger airports with far greater traffic movements, is a major achievement for Multiflight and the FBO team.

“This is a major success story for a West-Yorkshire based business.”

Multiflight handles a broad range of clients, including a number of sports teams. The company has been known to search the length and breadth of Yorkshire for a particular wine for a client, and to send a taxi to collect a newspaper for another client.

“We always aim to please and our continuing growth and traffic numbers are an indication that our clients value the quality of service we provide: as too, of course, is being voted the 10th FBO in Europe. Private travel continues to increase in popularity as people recognise just how time and cost-effective it can be,” Heather said.

The company regularly handles calls from emergency ambulance crews and is always on stand-by to get extra staff in, whatever the hour, to deal with the calls.

“While many of the flights we deal with are pleasure and business flights, we also handle emergency ambulance flights and it is imperative that we offer a responsive service,” Heather said.