Alberto Abed

Background

About Alberto Abed

With more than 50 years of experience, and more than flight hours, I have worked in positions as Mechanic, Copilot, Captain, Chief Pilot, Maintenance Manager and Director of Operations, as well as President, Executive Chief Officer, and owner of aviation companies. These development opportunities trained me into the knowledge and operation of executive and commercial aviation in more than 100+ makes and models of airplanes and helicopters as Cessna, Piper, Agusta, Eurocopter, Gulfstream, Falcon, Dornier, Bombardier, Boeing and McDonnel. In 1988 TAESA was formed, intended to operate an integral air transport company for all the market needs being the first low-cost airline in Mexico, and giving the opportunity to 20 million passengers to fly for the first time in their lives. I held the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO. I also received multiple awards, as the Silver Icarus; The European Excellence Prize in 1993; Executive Of The Year in 1993, rewards of the Professional Pilot Magazine in 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1996; etc. In August 1993, personally as Captain in Command, I flew the Boeing 757 transporting His Holiness John Paul II from Kingston, Jamaica to Merida Yucatan in Mexico. Currently I form part of Irelandia Aviation as Group Advisor; this group developed Ryanair airline. Today, as President of FlyMex, we received a special recognition for fulfilled missions flown in Africa and the Middle East in 2012, from the Humanitarian Programs of the United Nations. FlyMex operated the first commercial aircraft equipped with antimissiles system for operations within Iraq which I commanded in its first mission. My new project is to form the first amphibian airline in Mexico.