Suran Wijayawardana is the Chief Operating Officer for Alerion Aviation. He is responsible for the sale and delivery of charter flights operated by the company. He is supported by a team of charter sales and dispatch professionals operating from bases in New York, Palm Beach and Los Angeles.
Prior to Alerion, Suran founded ACP JETS, Inc. and grew it into an international air carrier, operating private jets all over the world. In five years Suran steered ACP’s growth to 8 aircraft and over 40 employees, while maintaining an sterling reputation for quality of service and industry leading safety ratings. In 2015, ACP JETS merged with JFI JETs and the resultant company became Alerion Aviation.
Suran has over twenty years of aviation management experience and previously held management positions in aviation companies from Part 141 Flight Schools to 135 Operations. He is currently Chairman of the National Air Transportation Association Charter committee and is past Chairman of both the East Coast Aviation Safety and Training Group and the Continued Florida Aviation Systems Planning Process (CFASPP), a division of Florida Dept. of Transportation. He is a passionate advocate for business aviation in his roles on the NATA air charter committee, FAA Air Carrier Training Rulemaking Committee (ACTARC) and several industry boards.
Suran attended Iowa State University for Aerospace Engineering and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, where he studied aeronautical science with minors in Aviation Safety and Human Factors.
