Callum Johns
Private aviation

Content leadership for private aviation

Charter operators, aircraft management companies and brokers. The work covers what can be published when the passengers, the movements and often the aircraft itself cannot be.

What the role covers here

  • The service, not the airframeThe same aircraft is often available through several operators. What differs is the answer at eleven at night, and that is what the material has to carry.
  • The operation, on the recordDispatch, flight planning, the maintenance hangar, the crew briefing. Brokers find it reassuring and almost nobody publishes it.
  • Discretion as a working ruleWhat may be shown of each owner’s aircraft, agreed in writing, and a posting habit that never puts an aircraft and a date together.
  • A small audience, reached properlyBrokers and repeat clients decide most of this. That is a trust strategy aimed at a few people, not a reach strategy aimed at many.

What usually needs fixing first

  • The same three frames as every competitor: an exterior on the stand at sunset, an empty cabin, a tray being presented.
  • Registrations and tail numbers left legible in the background of other images.
  • Posts published in real time, with the route or the date attached.
  • Location data left in photographs taken airside.
  • Crew posting their own footage with no brief on what is restricted.

Aircraft movements are already public through tracking services, so marketing should never supply the part that links a movement to a person. The discipline is the one I work to aboard yachts under NDA: publish the standard, never the passenger.


Written for this sector

Production is quoted separately from the advisory work, and using my agencies for it is always your choice. How it works and what it costs.

Start with a conversation about how your business runs today.

Thirty minutes on what you are producing and what it is meant to achieve, and a straight answer on whether this is the right hire.