NeXT STeP

Aviation Consultancy Services

From business planning to operations management


NeXT STeP, Lda. delivers worldwide aviation consultancy services across both fixed‑wing and rotary‑wing operations. The company has extensive experience throughout multiple African markets — including Angola, Mozambique, Nigeria, Chad, Gabon, Congo, Mali, South Africa, Madagascar, Cape Verde, Senegal, Morocco, Mauritius, and São Tomé and Príncipe — supporting operators, regulators, and complex mission‑critical projects in demanding operational environments.

The company also maintains a European operational branch based in Lisbon, Portugal, staffed by senior and principal consultants with decades of individual experience in creating, certifying, and managing airlines internationally. Their collective track record spans domestic, regional, intercontinental, and worldwide operations, both scheduled and non‑scheduled, including airline start‑ups, restructuring programs, and long‑term operational development.

Since April 2023, NeXT STeP has established its main office in the United Arab Emirates under the Sierra Brava Group, serving as the consortium’s dedicated Air Transportation Consultancy division. The company specializes in both military and civil aviation solutions, with capabilities covering UAV operations, Special Operations support, MedEvac units, and comprehensive technical‑operational programs for governmental and private entities across the Middle East, Africa, South America, and Europe.


core business

AOC from inception & planning to full operational readiness

Safety, Quality, Compliance & Security

  • Implementation and auditing of Safety, Quality, Compliance, and Security Management Systems (SMS/QMS/CMS/SecMS)
  • Operational Risk Assessments covering:
    • Ground Operations
    • Flight Operations
  • OGP compliance for aviation operations in the energy sector
  • IOSA / ISAGO audit preparation and conformity programs

Operational & Commercial Development

  • Route Feasibility Studies, including:
    • Operational viability
    • Commercial and market analysis
  • Airfield Certification support and regulatory alignment
  • Maintenance Management Solutions, including compliance oversight and reliability programs
  • Flight Data Monitoring (FDM) analysis and integration across OPS, Training, and Maintenance interfaces

Technical Documentation & Translation

  • Full Document Management lifecycle:
    • Manuals production
    • Edition
    • Revision control
  • Technical Translation Services for operational, regulatory, and engineering documentation

Operations Engineering & Crew Services

  • Operations Engineering and OCC (Operations Control Centre) design, setup, staffing, and daily operational management
  • Crew Outsourcing solutions for Flight Crew and Cabin Crew

Emergency & Continuity Planning

  • Emergency Response Planning (ERP)
  • Business Continuity Planning (BCP) for aviation operators, airports, and mission-critical organizations

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.