Let’s call it like it is:

The aircraft brokerage industry is broken.

Not because there’s a lack of demand. Not because planes aren’t moving. But because anyone with a smartphone and a LinkedIn profile can wake up one day and call themselves an aircraft broker. No vetting. No oversight. No rules. Just a flood of self-declared “direct mandates” clogging inboxes, spamming WhatsApp groups, copying and pasting listings they don’t understand, and creating a storm of confusion for actual buyers, sellers, and operators trying to do real business.

And let’s not sugarcoat it — this nonsense hurts the industry. It wastes time.
It kills credibility. It sabotages real deals.

Photos and specs get shared like gossip. Aircrafts are posted with wildly inflated
prices by people who have zero relationship to the actual owner. And the deeper you go into the “broker chain jungle,” the more the deal evaporates into a fog of hot air, fake LOIs, and amateur hour.

This is why ABA was born.

Not to profit off e-courses. Not to play gatekeeper. But to raise the damn bar. To say:
enough. We’re not here to hand out participation trophies. We’re here to certify the
real ones — the ones who understand aircraft, understand negotiations, and know how to handle human egos, fragile timelines, and multi-million-dollar transactions with professionalism and proof.

ABA doesn’t exist to flatter you. It exists to educate you, vet you, and weaponize
you with real-world skillsets that separate the talkers from the closers. And guess
what? That includes putting other brokers under the microscope. That’s why KYB — Know Your Broker — is just as important as KYC in this game.

This industry doesn’t just need a new coat of paint. It needs a revolution.

And that revolution starts right here, with the ABA Certified Broker Program.