Ferrovial Vertiports appoints Craig Teasdale as vice president of operations

Fer­rovial Ver­ti­ports, a divi­sion of Fer­rovial Air­ports, has appoint­ed Craig Teas­dale as its Vice Pres­i­dent of Oper­a­tions to posi­tion itself as one of the strongest teams in the indus­try, key to the suc­cess of lead­ing the future of air mobil­i­ty.

Teas­dale will be respon­si­ble for plan­ning all oper­a­tional activ­i­ties with­in the net­work of ver­ti­ports that the com­pa­ny is devel­op­ing to sup­port the intro­duc­tion of zero-car­bon urban and region­al air mobil­i­ty ser­vices.

He has more than 20 years of expe­ri­ence in avi­a­tion with lead­er­ship and oper­a­tional roles in the fixed-based oper­a­tion (FBO) sec­tor, hav­ing worked at Sig­na­ture Flight Sup­port Cor­po­ra­tion, where he was Oper­a­tions Direc­tor for most of his career.

Pre­vi­ous to that, he was gen­er­al man­ag­er, and more recent­ly, he helped build a new FBO start-up, Pro­peller Aero Ser­vices, where he was respon­si­ble for estab­lish­ing all aspects of the oper­a­tions.

Work­ing with lead­ing man­u­fac­tur­ers and air ser­vice oper­a­tors, the com­pa­ny is devel­op­ing a series of ver­ti­port net­works in Europe and the Unit­ed States, backed by its 70 years of trans­porta­tion infra­struc­ture expe­ri­ence. These infra­struc­tures are essen­tial to sup­port all-elec­tric, zero-car­bon ver­ti­cal take-off and land­ing (eVTOL) air­craft.

Fer­rovial Air­ports CEO Luke Buge­ja said: “As our Ver­ti­ports busi­ness devel­ops, we con­tin­ue to strength­en its man­age­ment team and I am sure Fer­rovial Ver­ti­ports CEO Kevin Cox and his team are pre­pared to lead the devel­op­ment of sus­tain­able infra­struc­tures, with sol­id sup­port from Ferrovial’s con­struc­tion and air­ports man­age­ment expe­ri­ence.”

Cox added: “Craig brings a wealth of oper­a­tional lead­er­ship expe­ri­ence to this new role, and will ensure our ver­ti­ports con­sid­er all rel­e­vant oper­a­tional require­ments from the design stage, devel­op­ing the pro­to­cols for how they will be run, with safe­ty, sus­tain­abil­i­ty, and con­ve­nience for pas­sen­gers and oper­a­tors a pri­or­i­ty.”

Fer­rovial Ver­ti­ports will be inter­modal cen­tres inte­grat­ed into the urban land­scape that are adapt­ed to the envi­ron­ment, reduce the acoustic impact, pro­duce no emis­sions, and meet the high­est ener­gy effi­cien­cy stan­dards through inno­v­a­tive design. In addi­tion, they will be adapt­able to serve mul­ti­ple eVTOL air­craft types and busi­ness mod­els.

Fer­rovial Air­ports appoint­ed Kevin Cox, with more than thir­ty years’ expe­ri­ence in the avi­a­tion sec­tor, as CEO of its ver­ti­ports busi­ness in Novem­ber 2021 to focus on the devel­op­ment of ver­ti­port net­works.

In Octo­ber 2021, Ver­ti­cal Aero­space agreed with Fer­rovial to cre­ate a net­work of 25 ver­ti­ports across the UK — sites that enable the take-off, land­ing and recharg­ing of eVTOL air­craft.