Tag: airline appointments

Genesis Expands Commercial Team

Genesis, the Dublin-based full life cycle aircraft lessor, has expanded its commercial team with the appointments of Owen Croucher and Mark Hegarty, to vice president roles within the company.  Owen will cover Genesis’ Eastern Europe, Russia, Middle East and Africa customers and markets. Mark wil...

Michael Erfert to become new Head of Sales at Eurowings

Michael Erfert, currently 'Head of Global Sales Steering, Products & Processes Hub Airlines' Lufthansa Group, will join Eurowings as Head of Sales on 15 August 2020. In addition to his function as Head of Sales, Distribution & Digital at Eurowings, he will also become Managing Director of th...

Voyager Aviation Announces Executive Appointment

Voyager Aviation Announces Executive Appointment

Voyager Aviation Holdings LLC (“Voyager”) announced today that its Board of Managers has appointed Mike Lungariello to the role of President to lead the Company. Mr. Lungariello will continue to serve on the Company’s Board of Managers. Mr. Lungariello joined Voyager in 2012 and has previo...

Wrenelle Stander appointed as Comair Limited Group CEO

Wrenelle Stander appointed as Comair Limited Group CEO

Comair Limited has announced the appointment of Wrenelle Stander as Group CEO, effective immediately. Glenn Orsmond, previously joint-CEO, has been appointed as the CEO of Comair’s Airline Division. This forms part of the ongoing restructuring at Comair. Group Chairman Lindsay Ralphs says, “...

Jens Bischof becomes CEO of Eurowings

Jens Bischof becomes CEO of Eurowings

Jens Bischof, currently CEO of SunExpress, will take over as chairman of the Management Board of Eurowings on 1 March 2020. He succeeds Thorsten Dirks, who will be responsible for 'IT, Digital and Innovation' in the Lufthansa Group Executive Board. "With Jens Bischof, we have appointed an outsta...

Lufthansa fills important airline leadership positions

Lufthansa fills important airline leadership positions

The Executive Board of Deutsche Lufthansa AG has appointed new CEOs for Eurowings and Brussels Airlines. Jens Bischof will take over as chairman of Eurowings on 1 March 2020. As of 1 January 2020, Dieter Vranckx will be CEO of Brussels Airlines.    Jens Bischof, currently CEO of SunExp...

A4A Names Riva Khoshaba Parker as Vice President, Labor and Employment/Litigation

A4A Names Riva Khoshaba Parker as Vice President, Labor and Employment/Litigation

Riva Khoshaba Parker Airlines for America (A4A), the industry trade organization for the leading U.S. airlines, today announced that Riva Khoshaba Parker has been named Vice President, Labor and Employment/Litigation. Parker is an expert litigator in all areas of labor and employment law, bringi...

Marty St. George appointed interim Chief Commercial Officer at Norwegian

Marty St. George appointed interim Chief Commercial Officer at Norwegian

Marty St. George has today been appointed interim Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) at Norwegian following changes in the company’s top management team. St. George has extensive experience from the aviation industry. Until recently, he held the position as CCO of Jet Blue Airways. CCO of Norwegi...

Flair Airlines Appoints Five Vice-Presidents and One New Director

Flair Airlines Appoints Five Vice-Presidents and One New Director

While the Canadian aviation industry is being unfairly restricted by its larger carriers, Flair Airlines continues its evolution to make travel more accessible, more affordable, and more desirable for all. A management team with strong experience in the domestic ULCC market Captain Matt Kunz&...

JetBlue Appoints Vivek Sharma to Board of Directors

JetBlue Appoints Vivek Sharma to Board of Directors

JetBlue have announced the appointment of Vivek Sharma to its board of directors. The independent director appointment is effective immediately, following unanimous approval by the company’s board of directors. Sharma has extensive experience in building and growing businesses profitably thr...

Jacob Schram appointed new CEO of Norwegian

Jacob Schram appointed new CEO of Norwegian

Norwegian’s Board of Directors has today appointed Jacob Schram as CEO of Norwegian, starting January 1st 2020. Geir Karlsen will continue as CFO and Deputy CEO. “I am very pleased to announce that Jacob Schram has been appointed new CEO of Norwegian, after a thorough search process. His ext...

Boeing Names New Communications Leader for Commercial Airplanes Business

Boeing Names New Communications Leader for Commercial Airplanes Business

Boeing has announced the appointment of Conrad Chun as vice president of Communications for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, effective immediately. Chun most recently served as vice president of Communications for Boeing Global Services where he was responsible for media relations, employee and exe...

Connect Airways appoints new Flybe COO

Connect Airways appoints new Flybe COO

Connect Airways has appointed Chris Hope as Flybe’s new chief operations officer with effect from 4 November 2019. Reporting directly to Connect Airways’ CEO Mark Anderson, he will take responsibility for Flybe’s ground and air operations and customer service. With over 30 years of avia...

Virgin Atlantic appoints Michelle Chu to key role

Virgin Atlantic appoints Michelle Chu to key role

Virgin Atlantic has appointed Michelle Chu as commercial manager for Hong Kong and Southern China. Based in Hong Kong, she will lead the sales team to oversee business in Hong Kong and Southern China, as well as offline markets including Singapore and Taiwan. Chu has over 15 years of experienc...

Garry Wilson joins easyJet

Garry Wilson joins easyJet

easyJet has today appointed Garry Wilson as the chief executive officer (CEO) of its holiday’s business and a member of the airline management board. Wilson said: “I’m excited to be joining easyJet and for the opportunity to create a serious player in the holiday’s market.  easyJet is a ...

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