Fly Aeolus

Placement organization

Name of organization: Fly Aeolus
Town/city: Rotterdam
Country: NL – Zuid-Holland
Website: https://flyaeolus.com

Student

Name of student: Carmen Bos
Specialist area: Tourism Management (EN)
Placement period: 2020-2021

Information about placement organization

Type of organization: Low Cost Air Taxi
Organization’s activities: Fly Aeolus has become the first company to offer air taxi services using single piston aircraft in Europe under a fractional ownership model. It sets an innovation in affordable private door-to-door air transport.

With the belief that the air taxi industry needs to be renewed, Fly Aeolus was founded in 2009, and the company is continuously building up: setting up a website, training interns, adding flight destinations and offices and of course, by constantly increasing its fleet.

Fly Aeolus is highly valued for its professional responsiveness in providing affordable both private and business flights. Fly Aeolus is growing to be the preferred air taxi partner for low cost private flights in Europe, with office locations at Antwerp and Rotterdam airport.

The team exhibits expertise from different business aviation disciplines, completed by experienced Cirrus pilots and instructors. Fly Aeolus is offering its employees a safe and healthy workplace environment to maintain their happiness and to reach great productivity.
Target group of the organization: Young and innovative
Number of employees: 10-15
Dress code: casual
Did the organization meet the agreements you made beforehand? Yes

Information about your placement

In which department(s) are you working?  Marketing and communication department

Brief description of your daily activities: As an intern of the Flemish/Dutch market development you will support the company in marketing tasks in the inbound and outbound area for the Flemish and Dutch market.
This means that you will produce content in line with the customer’s journey and the personality of our buyers. Together we will communicate the content via online channels, social media, blogs and our website in order to convince, inform and inspire our target customers. You will test digital marketing campaigns, develop best practices and work with test/learning principles. The goal is to select responsive templates. In addition, you will develop triggered email campaigns, generate dynamic content, and analyze and optimize new and current campaigns. Everything around the topic – website optimization – also belongs to your subject area.

As an outbound marketer, you participate in the first communication with our Flemish and Dutch leads, prospects and customers. You will support and organize (exhibition) events, evaluate our print material and create creative and exciting media campaigns.
Brief description of your company assignment: I had to conduct a Funnel analysis to find out why people are leaving the website and how to improve it to decrease these numbers
Comment briefly on your supervision by the organization: Good supervision, very understanding and proactive

Requirements for students on placement

What kind of personal skills are required for this placement? As a small and young company, independence, proactivity and self-determination are important values with which you should feel comfortable.
Additional company requirements for this placement? You have a go-getter attitude You are proactive, work in a structured way and can implement creative and different ideas You are fluent in Dutch, both written and spoken (Dutch native language preferred) You have communication skills (oral and written) You are a storyteller
English: Advanced
Spanish:
French:
German:
Italian:
Other languages: Depends on the internship you are applying for. They offer a Dutch, French and German Marketing internship. English language skills are required to communicate with your colleagues and for the general work.

The trip

Mode of transport to reach your destination: train

Future students on placement

Future students are free to contact me for further information: No
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Other information

Recommendations on what to do and what not to do: – Communicate well with your colleagues
– Do not hesitate to ask questions
Leisure possibilities in the city/surroundings of where the placement took place: –

Media

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