Originally Posted by Flyguy01 (Post 765100)

As found in AIN:


Touching Bases: Pentastar Adds Jobs, Aircraft
By: Matt Thurber
January 28, 2010
FBOs


Pentastar Aviation, headquartered at Oakland County International Airport in Waterford, Mich., has weathered the past year’s economic turmoil and added 11 aircraft to the company’s charter/management fleet, a significant accomplishment given the dramatic cuts taking place in Michigan’s automotive-focused economy. “The challenges presented by a changing economy have allowed us to reevaluate our core competencies to address those challenges,” said Pentastar president Rick Maloney.

“We viewed these challenges as an opportunity to grow and implement positive changes to better serve a wider range of customers. Pentastar added 50 new jobs as a result of the recent growth in activity.

In addition to the charter division, Pentastar operates a full-service FBO, including maintenance services, at Oakland County as well as an FBO at Van Nuys Airport in Southern California.





*With addition to the UofM flight department, sounds like Pentastar has found a couple ideas to weather the storm.


-FlyGuy

Originally Posted by FL510 (Post 765389)

A little play on words I beleive. Other than the UM account which physically added a Citation and helicopter, the other 9 aircraft were aircraft outside of Pentastar added to their certificate and not physically on location. Not sure where the 50 new jobs came from. Certainly not pilot additions. Did hear several additions in corporate along with additions in MX and CSR, but not pilots, unless they consider the 8 pilots added to the UM account. These 8 pilots were from the Daimler account which Pentastar lost when Daimler shut down operations. By the way, the Daimler account had 10 pilots, one was laidoff the other moved to another account, the other 8 to the UM account.