Hello and welcome to episode 351 of AvTalk, our retrospective episode as we get ready to

come back fresh next week. We begin 2026 by looking back at some of our favorite

conversations from 2025.

In 2025, we focused a lot on the news and what it meant for the aviation industry,

but we also had a chance to speak with some very interesting people.

We first revisit our conversation with Lishka Hill, Senior Vice President for Cargo at Air Partner.

We chatted about her career path, how the cargo market has evolved post-COVID, and some of the

more interesting shipments she's had to deal with.

Welcome back.

We, as promised, are here with Alishka Hill, who is the senior vice president of cargo for UK and the rest of the world. I love that title at Air Partner, which is a wheels up company here to talk all things air cargo that we might not have covered before. So, Alicia, thank you so much

for joining us. Well, thank you very much in for having me here. It's a great pleasure.

So tell us about your role specifically in the industry, because you are not a giant aircraft

with a logo splashed on the side, but you're moving things around the UK and

the rest of the world quite handedly. So tell me about how you guys operate. Well, certainly. The reason

of the title is simply, I look after every region apart from the United States. I have a counterpart

based in the US. So that explains why the title states that, not just that it's the UK

is the centre of the world, which I get reminded that we're not, certainly not anymore.

But yes, Air Partner obviously is a well-established for over 60 years as an air charter broker

and quite a well-known name in the industry, but covering everything from private jet charters

to group passenger charters, a lot of operational management, leasing, aircraft leasing and cargo.

And cargo has been an important part of the business for well over 30 years now, but always operating in across all the different

verticals that we look at, mainly focused on the charter world and growing with locations

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