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A force-multiplier for in-house communication’s teams.
Plane Talking is a strategic communications and reputation management agency based in Cape Town, South Africa. We specialise in raising, enhancing, and protecting the profiles of organisations in the aviation, defense, space, and allied industries.
With over 30 years’ experience, we provide hands-on support and senior counsel to aerospace manufacturers, airlines, airports, government agencies, research institutions, consultancies, and more, both in Africa and across the globe.
Linden Birns, Managing Director
Dillon Birns, Director
How can we support you?
Access a global network of aerospace experts.
To take advantage of an increasingly global and interconnected world, we have established a network of peers across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, and the Middle East.
Our professional and experienced associates provide on-the-ground communications, content creation, and market engagement support for our clients’ campaigns in those territories.
We support organisations across the aerospace ecosystem.
What our clients say about us.
“I had the pleasure to enjoy a highly trusting and successful business relationship with Plane Talking. For more than a decade, the 28 member airlines of Star Alliance entrusted Linden and his team with several assignments, including the planning and execution of several joint Crisis Management & Communications exercises. He was an always accessible and highly knowledgeable advisor on — at times — complex media and communications-related issues concerning the African continent and beyond.”
“Plane Talking provides a professional, efficient, friendly and extremely competent communications and marketing service that has helped showcase our work and build our reputation as a newly emerging innovation ecosystem player in South Africa. Dillon and Linden have gone above and beyond to provide a wildly varying range of quality content that spans from geospatial technologies to women entrepreneurs in townships, to water technologies to address water treatment residue to name but a few. They have unfalteringly adapted their approach to the different contexts, help us launch grant funded competitions, promoted our work on local media channels, supported with the launch of events and everything in between.”
“I have enjoyed the dedicated and professional advice and support provided to IATA and its African leadership team by Linden Birns and his colleagues at Plane Talking. They have provided media relations, analysis and public affairs services to IATA in sub-Sahara Africa since 2005. Linden also provided media training to myself and several of my senior Africa team.”
“Over several years I have valued the professional and dedicated support and advice provided by Plane Talking. Linden and his team provided media relations and public affairs services to Airbus in sub-Sahara Africa. This included preparing communications plans, briefing notes, releases, speeches, videos and other promotional material. They also have an established comprehensive network of journalists, editors and industry contacts across Africa. Linden was also intimately involved in the comprehensive review and overhaul of Airbus’s group-wide crisis communications policy and provided crisis communications support to Airbus on several occasions over the past two decades.”
“Plane Talking has been instrumental in helping SITA expand its presence across Sub-Saharan Africa. Their team possesses extensive knowledge of the complex African aerospace and aviation market. This enables them to provide timely and strategically valuable insights that significantly benefit SITA, its reputation, image and campaigns to grow its business in the region.”
