Local Businessman Sets Sights on World
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Global Wings
CEO expands aviation services worldwide while maintaining a local feel
By Muhammed El-Hasan, Staff WriterFrom his corporate headquarters in Westchester, Joseph Czyzyk scans the globe like an airplane passenger 40,000 feet up may see the ground below: with a broad, panoramic view.
Yet, for Czyzyk (pronounced Chizzick), the ground below is within his grasp.
The chairman and CEO of Mercury Air Group Inc., an aviation services company, is expanding his firm's worldwide reach.
The private company recently opened the Middle East's largest private air terminal facility, at Kuwait International Airport. The company is considering opening facilities in other countries including India.
Mercury Air Group already provides services in many parts of North, Central and South America, Asia, the Middle East and the Mediterranean region.
Customers include corporate aircraft operators, major airlines and the U.S. military.
"We are, whether we like it or not, a global economy," Czyzyk said in a recent interview. "And there's no reason this local company in the South Bay should not be part of that. And we are."
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