Our clients are aircraft owners and operators, some of whom we prepare sales tax returns for. As you might expect, the flying really declined during march and April, be we could see an increase in May and June. Calls from potential purchasers of aircraft continued, but we saw a big increase in calls from those who wanted to purchase smaller aircraft – anything to get away from traveling on the airlines!

For the month of June, we saw a big increase in flights provided by our charter customers. This was very encouraging news to see.

If there’s positive news to report from the pandemic, I’d say it’s forced us to work in new ways that will benefit our customers in the future. Like everyone, our group at our office had to adjust to a new work-world. Some of our employees chose to continue to work at our office location since we have adequate space to stay safe distances from each other, while others chose to work at home. Although we do plenty of consulting work which is typically done over the phone, our primary product is paper-work. Our biggest challenge was to get work processed, reviewed and delivered without having to physically exchange files, since some of our client files are still maintained on paper. After a couple of months, we’re pleased at the progress we’ve made to better maintain our files so we, and our clients, can access them anywhere, anytime.