Aviation Consultancy Services

From business planning to operations management


NeXT STeP, Lda. provides worldwide consultancy services in aviation - both fixed and rotary wing operations - with particular experience in multiple African countries, including, but not limited to: Angola, Mozambique, Nigeria, Chad, Gabon, Congo, Mali, South Africa, Madagascar, Cape Verde, Senegal, Morocco, Mauritius, and Sao Tome and Principe.

The company also runs an European operational branch based in Lisbon, Portugal encompassing a team of experienced senior and principal consultants in manifold areas with extensive individual decades-long track records creating and operating different airlines internationally, ranging from domestic and regional to intercontinental/world-wide, scheduled and unscheduled operations.


AOC from inception & planning to full operational readiness


• Safety, Quality / Compliance and Security Management Systems implementation & auditing;
• Operational risk assessment;
      o Ground Operations;
      o Flight Operations;
• Route feasibility studies;
      o Operational;
      o Commercial;
• Airfield certification;
• Maintenance Management Solutions;
• IOSA / ISAGO certification preparation;
• OGP requirements compliance;
• Document Management (Manuals sets: Production, edition & revision)
  + Technical Translation Services
• Flight Data Monitoring (OPS; TRN & MNT interface);
• Ops Engineering & OCC design, setup, manning and day-to-day operations management;
• Crew outsourcing (Flight and Cabin).

  EMERGENCY RESPONSE & BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLANNING  


AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT

ACMI, Dry-Leasing or Acquisition
(with financing plans and negotiation support)


SYSTEMS INTEGRATION

• Full Scope Aviation Software Solutions Development & Integration;
• Data warehousing and Database Management;
• Civilian & Military Transportation Cyber Security.


BIO-JET FUEL DEVELOPMENT

Technological, and supply-chain support & optimisation for HVO / HEFA;

Airport Asset and Infrastructure

Airside and Landside Resources Management

From parking lots to security checkpoints, passport control, duty-free shopping areas, catering providers and ground handling services, fleets, emergency response (firefighting means allocation and maintenance management), air traffic and ground control infrastructure and asset management; providing turnkey solutions, with full-scope analysis, studies, infrastructure execution project management and control.


  • Admnistration Services

  • Our team is experienced in organizational structures establishment and maintenance facilitating asset management processes, with clear strategic vision and leadership skills;
  • We set and manage the policies, processes and procedures to ensure staff awareness, competency, motivation and commitment, and cross-functional integration, optimizing resources, and enabling the retention of information and knowledge of asset condition, performance, risks and costs.
  • Operational Control

  • Focusing the business on customers and Service delivery cost-effectiveness, through:
  • • Strategic and master planning;

    • Financial and capital planning;

    • Airport infrastructure planning;

    • Risk mitigation;

    • Operations management;

    • Maintenance management;

    • Information technologies and communications infrastructure management.

  • Delivering High-Performance

  • Enhancing profitability to share-holders while increasing customer satisfaction by improving performance & control of products and services;
  • • Delivery to the required regulatory frameworks, applicable standards and business best practices;
  • • Improved health, safety, security, quality, compliance and environmental performance.

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