christian Sabardine

Christian brings over 30 years of aerospace industry experience in aircraft sales, transaction structuring, and contract negotiation. Christian joined the PVP team in 2015 in support of the company’s growing client base and serves as Executive Director, Head of Aircraft Transactions, leading OEM contract negotiations for PVP’s clients worldwide.

Prior to Plane View Partners, Mr. Sabardine worked for Airbus for over 25 years in various sales, marketing, contracts and customer relations positions, based both in Europe and in the Americas. In his latest assignment at Airbus, he was Vice President Sales Contracts and Transactions for Airbus Americas.  He was a key member of the Airbus Americas management team which increased market share from 10% to over 50% in 15 years and grew in-service fleet to over 1800 aircraft in operation. Mr. Sabardine has successfully led or participated in negotiations for over 100 complex aircraft sales transactions for Airbus, firmly establishing large Airbus fleets at United, American, Delta, US Airways, and at multiple low cost carriers and major Latin American airlines.

Christian holds an MBA from ESSEC Business School in Paris.