Abbey Joins Seabury Group

Douglas Abbey, a 30-year airline industry consultant with expertise in regional aviation and North American route-development strategies, joined Seabury Group as a senior vice president. In addition, Seabury named Alan Sbarra, who has more than 15 years of aviation and aviation-related experience in the...

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Douglas Abbey, a 30-year airline industry consultant with expertise in regional aviation and North American route-development strategies, joined Seabury Group as a senior vice president. In addition, Seabury named Alan Sbarra, who has more than 15 years of aviation and aviation-related experience in the areas of strategy development, business and financial planning, economic analysis, and cost analysis, as a vice president. Seabury Group is a leading independent investment banking and advisory group serving aviation, aerospace, and cargo on a global basis whose practices fit broadly into three areas: investment banking, corporate transformation, and management consulting services.
Abbey previously was managing partner of the Velocity Group, and before that, president of AvStat Associates Inc. Abbey’s nearly 25-year association with the Regional Airline Association (RAA) produced a body of research that resulted in benchmarks widely cited as industry standards used today by the FAA as the basis for its annual forecasts. In 2001, he established the Regional Air Service Initiative (RASI) with the underwriting of industry manufacturers and suppliers, with the goal of promoting free market growth of regional jet (RJ) service in North America.
Prior to establishing AvStat, Abbey was director of market research at Fokker Aircraft (USA). Before that, he was a consultant at Kurth & Company and at Simat, Helliesen & Eichner (SH&E); and a research analyst with the U.S. Department of Transportation. He is a member of the Washington Airline Society, National Academy of Sciences, Air Transportation Research International Forum, and Transportation Research Board. He holds a BBA degree from George Washington University and has completed air transport courses at the Royal Aeronautical Society.
Sbarra was a founder and principal of Roach and Sbarra Consulting and assisted DOT in reviewing its cost-data collection and analysis techniques. Before founding Roach and Sbarra, he was a vice president of Unisys R2A Transportation Management Consultants. Sbarra also worked at United Airlines and Internet travel distribution company SideStep, Inc. He holds an SB degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from the University of Michigan.