14/10/2026
Kirill Vasilev of BBN Airlines Türkiye reflects on receiving the Duty Devotion Award at the 2025 Avia Solutions Group “Highflyers” Employee of the Year Awards. 🎖️
The Duty Devotion Award recognizes colleagues whose dedication is reflected in the consistency, discipline, and sense of responsibility they bring to their work every day - qualities Kirill demonstrates through his commitment to maintaining high standards in compliance and safety.
For Kirill, effective compliance starts with structure. Keeping manuals and procedures aligned with constantly changing local and international requirements requires careful review, clear priorities, and a disciplined step-by-step approach.
“In my opinion, regulatory and procedural compliance is like a multi-layer pie: everything starts with a solid base,” he says.
That same mindset shapes his approach to ownership. In an area where multiple departments and regulatory requirements often intersect, Kirill believes clear responsibility is essential to maintaining consistency and avoiding misalignment. ✈️
His work has already delivered practical results. Introducing a regulatory cross-compliance matrix for manuals helped identify gaps ahead of multiple audits, while close cooperation with operational teams helps ensure procedures remain both compliant and workable in practice.
For Kirill, the principle behind this approach is simple: “Write what you do, do what you write.”
When speaking about the personal impact of this award, Kirill admits that it has reinforced his motivation to keep improving: “This award is confirmation that I’m doing my job well and a stimulus to strive for further improvement.”
Looking ahead, he is focused on improving coordination across manuals, reducing repeated content that can lead to discrepancies, and continuing to strengthen safety awareness across departments.
His advice to future nominees is equally practical: “Task prioritization is the key to success. Otherwise, multitasking will turn to complete disorder.”
Read the full interview here 👉 https://tinyurl.com/5n6bpkfb