Stratos 12 partners with airlines, governments and mission-critical organisations to deliver sustainable performance, transformation and governance foresight. Discover aviation consultancy built on experience.
Stratos 12 partners with organisations across the global aviation ecosystem to restore focus, efficiency and resilience. Our work spans restructuring and route optimisation to oversight assurance and mission-critical asset management.
Clients engage us when the challenges are structural, strategic or sensitive – where impartial expertise and practical execution make the difference between recovery and decline.
Every engagement begins with clarity: defining outcomes, aligning leadership intent and simplifying delivery. We apply evidence-based insight and decades of executive experience to transform oversight into foresight – enabling boards and shareholders to anticipate disruption rather than react to it.
Our approach is human-centred, people and data-driven, and outcome-led. We combine analytical precision with operational empathy, ensuring recommendations are practical, measurable and sustainable.
Stratos 12 partners have led from within the industry – from running airlines and resolving crises to delivering transformation under real-world pressure.
That perspective gives Stratos 12 a rare ability to identify root causes quickly, integrate people and process, and drive results that endure. We deliver outcomes.
A partnership of executives united by a belief that sustainable aviation must combine commercial discipline with human-centred design.
Each partner contributes intellectual property and leadership insight gained through decades at the forefront of global aviation.
Partner, Stratos 12 LLP
Mission-critical asset, engineering and MRO strategy
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Partner, Stratos 12 LLP – CEO-level transformation and commercial strategy
Remco Althuis is an international aviation leader with over three decades of senior executive experience driving transformation, turnaround and growth across Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
He has served as Chief Executive Officer of Air Seychelles and Chief Executive Officer of Nordic Aviation Group, delivering measurable commercial and operational improvement in highly complex environments. Earlier, he was Vice President Europe at Etihad Airways, held strategic and commercial roles at KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, and led joint-venture programmes with a leading Chinese airline.
Remco has held direct revenue accountability exceeding USD 1 billion, leading large-scale restructuring, growth and market-expansion initiatives that strengthened profitability and long-term resilience. He is recognised for bringing clarity to complexity – aligning strategy, culture and execution to build agile and sustainable aviation businesses.
Partner, Stratos 12 LLP – Change leadership and operational strategy
Barry Eustance brings over four decades of leadership across aviation and organisational transformation. A former Airbus A330 and A340 Captain, he combines operational insight with a structured, human-centred approach to change that delivers measurable and lasting performance.
Chartered by the Chartered Management Institute, Barry also holds the CMI Masters Diploma in Professional Consulting, is a Kotter Advanced Change Leader, and a StratNav Grand Master recognised for his evidence-based approach to strategy execution.
He has led complex industrial-relations negotiations, advised boards on cultural alignment, and provided aviation analysis for BBC News, BBC Radio and Bloomberg. Barry’s philosophy is clear: culture, clarity and structure drive performance – people sustain it.
Partner, Stratos 12 LLP – Flight operations and performance transformation
Richard Nanton has more than three decades of senior flight-operations leadership across global airlines including Thomas Cook Airlines UK (Director Flight Operations), easyJet (Chief Pilot), Qatar Airways (VP Flight Operations and Chief Pilot Recruitment) and Jet2 (Chief Training Manager).
A qualified Type Rating Examiner, he is type-rated on B737, A320, A330, B777, B747-400 and ACJ320 NEO. Richard integrates technical authority with behavioural insight to enhance organisational performance.
He is the founder of CarboNetZero Ltd, guiding operators on carbon-reduction and operational-efficiency strategies, and a certified Marshall Goldsmith Coach, Global Coaching Group Consultant and Human Synergistics Practitioner. Richard transforms flight operations into cohesive, high-performance ecosystems where safety, engagement and efficiency reinforce one another.
Partner, Stratos 12 LLP – Mission-critical asset, engineering and MRO strategy
Jean-Marc Youkhana-Ichard brings over three decades of aviation and asset-management expertise, including 23 years as CEO of Uplifting Aviation.
He has managed and structured aviation-asset transactions exceeding USD 1.7 billion across multiple jurisdictions, combining financial precision with deep technical capability in engineering, maintenance, repair and overhaul, and aircraft-lifecycle management.
Jean-Marc’s long-standing relationships with specialist aviation banks and lessors enable clients to secure, operate and optimise mission-critical assets with confidence. His approach blends engineering rigour with commercial acumen – ensuring reliability, value and resilience in the world’s most demanding operating environments.
