Philip Butterworth-HayesPhilip Butterworth-Hayes is founder and editorial director of PMI Media Limited and consultant and writer on global aviation affairs with a particular interest in the aircraft manufacturing market. He began his aviation career in 1984 with the management of an air cargo disaster relief operation between Europe and Sudan. He had previously worked as a lecturer and journalist in North Africa. For more than 25 years Philip has specialised in delivering highly complex technical and industrial aerospace information. As such, his clients have included the US government – for whom he delivered a recommendation on the deployment of back-up navigational equipment on all United States Air Force fixed wing aircraft – and a wide number of global advisors, including Morgan-Stanley, Mercer Management Consulting and ATK Kearney.
He has authored a wide number of globally successful reports and studies based on future markets and analysis of current aerospace trends. These include The Market for ATC Equipment (Jane’s Information Group) 1997, 1998, 2001; the Market for Civil Aircraft Maintenance and Services (Jane’s Information Group) 1997; The Market for Civil Aircraft (Jane’s Information Group) 1998; The very light jet market (PMi Media Ltd) 2006, 2007, 2008; and The growth of aircraft manufacturing in low-wage economies 2005-2009 (PMi Media Ltd) 2010.
His aviation background includes posts as the director of communications and strategy at the Civil Aviation Navigation Organization(CANSO) in Amsterdam (2006-2007), the Manager of Jane’s Air Transport Division and lead consultant for Jane’s Information Group on civil aviation consultancy studies (1987-1992), founding editor of Jane’s Aircraft Component Manufacturers, Jane's World Airlines and Jane's Airport Review, a former editor of Interavia Aerospace Review, Airports International, Jane’s Defence Industries, Jane’s Military Aircraft and several unmanned air system publications. He has been an aviation consultant to BBC Television and Time-Life books.
In 2007 he left CANSO to concentrate on developing aerospace consultancy and market report company PMI Media Limited. Over the next two years he developed the Aviation Supply Chain Intelligence database, to map global trends in aerospace manufacturing.
He also currently writes on aviation manufacturing for The Wall Street Journal aerospace supplements. In 2010, his company PMI Media Limited published Global Enabler – the story of the Airbus Military A330 MRTT.
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