Malcolm Ginsberg

a short biography

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Malcolm Ginsberg (born October 1942) is one of the longest established UK specialist air and business travel journalists and in a lengthy and very active career has been a successful public relations practitioner, publisher and writer.

In the late 1960s Malcolm reported on motor racing for Autosport, the motor sport weekly. He caught the eye of Colin Chapman and was invited by Lotus Cars (at the time World Motor Racing Champions) to become press officer and later on publicity manager, helping to sell the Elan, Elan +2, Europa and Lotus 7 (now Caterham 7).

In 1973 he founded Malcolm Ginsberg & Associates (MGA), public relations consultants, with Moonraker Boats (owned by Colin Chapman), Clan Cars (essentially a Lotus spin-off), Piper Aircraft and CSE (The Oxford Air Training School) as his first clients. CSE introduced Embraer to the UK and was instrumental in winning the RAF order for the Tucano trainer. HeavyLift Cargo Airlines, no longer with us although its name is now part of the vocabulary, was another decade-long client.

MGA has acted for, long-term, American Airlines, All Nippon Airways, British World Airlines and for 15 years Brymon Airways, plus a number of airports and aviation associated companies. In its early days Malcolm acted for Ryanair. Roy Watts, the former CEO of British Airways, retained MGA when he became chairman of Thames Water Plc.

In 2017 he published London City Airport –30 years Serving the Capital. He is considered the authority on the operation having first visited the site, a derelict former dock pier, in February 1982, calling Brymon Airways owner Bill Bryce back and saying it was “interesting”.

Malcolm in 1993 purchased Air & Business Travel News (ABTN), a tabloid size bi-weekly travel trade publication, turning it into a fax bulletin in 1997 and by the beginning of the century an electronic international digital weekly newsletter. It has developed since that time and in 2012 became Business Travel News (BTN).

Aviation Directories Ltd was owned by Malcolm Ginsberg and Associates for 20 years, during which time it published over 30 directories including the Flight International Directory of British Aviation and Directory of European Aviation series, the Farnborough Airshow Trade Catalogue, the ABTN Travel Industry Directory, the Aerospace International World Airline Directory, various Business Travel World directories, part works for TTG and Travel Weekly, and the APRO (Airline Public Relations Organisation) Directory.

Today Malcolm is no longer involved in PR and, as well as Editor-in-Chief of Travel News Update (TNU), acts as an aviation historian/consultant and journalist writing for various nationals, weeklies, and magazines on travel, motoring, and cruising and appearing from time to time on TV and radio.

He is developing a lecture programme.

At the end of 2024, after nearly 30 years as an on/off committee member of the Aviation Club of Great Britain (only two consecutive terms are allowed), the meeting place for those involved with UK commercial aviation, he has finally retired from that organisation.

Malcolm is a long-time season ticket holder at Luton Town Football Club, formerly of the Premier League. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Journalists and the International Travel Writers Alliance.

Malcolm and Linda Ginsberg dressed for dinner