Gloucestershire Airport appoints new Airport Director

By Peter Davison

7 August 2023

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Jason Ivey

Gloucestershire Airport has announced that Jason Ivey has been appointed as the airport’s new Airport Director.

Jason started last week and joins with a proven track record of driving operational excellence and supporting growth.

Jason begun his career in aviation as an 18-year-old in the Royal Air Force. From there his expertise and passion for aviation have seen him enjoy numerous and varied roles, including Aerodrome Inspector for the Civil Aviation Authority, Operations Manager at Farnborough Airport, Chief Fire Officer at Gatwick Airport, Airport Director at Cranfield Airport, Operations Director at London Southend Airport and most recently, Operations Director at London Oxford Airport.

Jason commented: “I’m looking forward to building on this airport’s important role as a gateway for regional growth and supporting the great and varied businesses that call the airport home.

"I’ve been in the role for just a week but I’ve seen enough to be genuinely excited by the potential of the exceptional team of people we have here.

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"I’m very much looking forward to plotting the airport’s next steps to support innovation, excellence and greater collaboration.”

Gloucestershire Airport, formerly Staverton Airport, is a few miles outside Cheltenham. Established from a former RAF base it is Gloucestershire's largest general aviation airfield and it is regularly used for private charter flights to destinations such as Jersey and Guernsey.

By Peter Davison

Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country.

An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts.

Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.