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Air charter broker, who has since become one of the world leaders in charter between airlines.

The first foray of the Avico group outside of its brokerage core business was launched with the creation of Ladybird Ground Services, an aircraft cleaning company first at Paris CDG airport and then at Paris Orly airport.

Creation of aviation staffing agency BusyBee (which will be sold ten years later)

The Avico group opens its first office abroad in 2003, with the creation of a subsidiary in Ireland. That same year, the Avico Group also launches its asset management business, purchasing its first DC10-30 under the Avico Asset Management brand.

A joint venture specialized in aeronautical financing is created with French bank CIC. Its name : Blue Lane Avico.

The Avico Group carries out its first external growth operation with the acquisition of Flybus, a passenger bus transfer company specialized in shuttling passengers between planes and terminals at Paris CDG airport. This company was ultimately sold to the Transdev group in 2018.

Following the Arab Spring which severely penalized the tourism sector in the whole of the Maghreb, Mourad Majoul and Avico commits to the revival of tourism in Tunisia by launching "The Jasmine Commmitments" at the Arab World Institute in Paris, in partnership with French politician Dominique Baudis and actor Michel Boujenah.

Avico enters into a partnership with Novespace, a CNES (France's national space agency) subsidiary, in order to market the first European Zero gravity flights to the general public under the Air Zero G brand.

Quality and Service are fundamentals of the Avico Group. This qualitative level is now officially recognized with the ISO 9001 certification of Avico, Ladybird and AeroGate.

Avico joins forces with the National School of Civil Aviation (Enac) Alumni association, of which Mourad Majoul and Gilles Gompertz are proud members, to create the Enac Avico Challenge, a business startup competition focused on aeronautics. 18 projects were selected during the 1st edition of the Challenge and the winner received a grant of € 10,000.

For the first time Avico's consolidated turnover exceeds € 150 million, non-charter activities represent more than half of revenues and international companies account for more activity than French companies of the group.

The Avico group participates in the creation of a new airline, Dominican Wings, based in the Dominican Republic and equipped with Airbus A320.

The group invests in the seeding and further development of the Sunbirds start-up, which designs solar-powered drones and won 1st prize in the Enac Avico Challenge.

Avico sells its stakes in the Flybus and Phoebus businesses to the Transdev group and in turn takes a significant equity stake in the Tunisian pilot training school Safe Flight Academy.

The Avico Group creates Airgos, a software company that develops innovative systems for airport ground handling and management. That same year Avico Group acquires a stake in the Senegalese airline company Arc en Ciel Aviation, now Arc en Ciel Airlines.

The Avico company provides numerous repatriation and medical freight transport flights in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, participates in the organization of the Sunbirds solar drone world distance record and the Avico Group takes a significant stake in RegioLease, an aeronautical engineering and airworthiness specialist.