BagsID today announced the appointment of Dave Bakker as Chief Executive Officer. Bakker has many years of experience in the aviation industry at SITA, having served previously as Senior Vice-President Global Services and as President for the European Region. Prior to that, Bakker has worked i...

daa, operator of Dublin and Cork city airports, has announced the appointment of Catherine Gubbins as Interim Chief Executive Officer, while the process to recruit a new permanent CEO continues.  This follows the departure of Dalton Philips to take up a new role as Chief Executive Officer of Gre...

Abu Dhabi Airports has appointed H.E. Jamal Salem Al Dhaheri as Chief Executive Officer. A seasoned business leader, Al Dhaheri’s appointment will continue the journey of success achieved by Shareef Hashim Al Hashmi for Abu Dhabi Airports, taking the organisation to the next phase of transforma...

Rolls-Royce announces that Tufan Erginbilgic has been appointed Chief Executive Officer and an executive director of Rolls-Royce Holdings plc. Tufan will take up his new role on 1 January 2023, succeeding Warren East who, on 24 February 2022, announced his intention to step down at the end of thi...

Aircraft Component Repair, Inc. (ACR) has announced that Dennis Suedkamp has joined the company as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Dennis joins ACR with over 20 years of executive management and leadership experience in the commercial aviation industry. During his career, Dennis' leader...

IDAIR’s Advisory Board has nominated Luigi Celmi to be the new Chief Executive Officer starting January 1st, 2022. In addition, Christiane Grude, Senior Director Original Equipment Innovation at Lufthansa Technik AG, has joined the IDAIR Advisory Board as of July 1st, 2021. After six years o...

Joramco, the Amman-based maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) provider and the engineering arm of Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE), announced today the appointment of Fraser Currie as its new Chief Executive Officer, effective October 1, 2021. Mr. Currie joined Joramco in April 2018 as Chief C...

gategroup, the leading global airline catering and food services provider, today announced that Xavier Rossinyol will step down as Chief Executive Officer effective November 1, 2021 to pursue new challenges outside of the airline industry. He will be succeeded by Christoph Schmitz, gategroup’s ...

Mr. Krešimir Kučko will step down from his role as the Chief Executive Officer of Gulf Air by the end of the month. Commenting on this development, Chairman of Gulf Air’s Board of Directors H.E. Mr. Zayed R. Alzayani said: “We extend our sincere thanks to Mr. Krešimir Kučko for his dedica...

Aviation services business John Menzies announced on Friday that chief executive officer Giles Wilson is stepping down to take up the role of chief financial officer at William Grant & Sons, the drinks group that owns Glenfiddich Scotch whisky and Hendricks Gin. Wilson will stay on at Menzies un...

The Australian Airports Association (AAA) has appointed James Goodwin as its new Chief Executive Officer. AAA National Chairman Tom Ganley said Mr Goodwin would bring deep experience in public policy, advocacy and stakeholder engagement to the role. Mr Goodwin has been Chief Executive of the ...

The Board of Directors of Kenya Airways PLC has appointed Mr. Allan Kilavuka as the airline’s Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer effective April 1, 2020. Prior to this appointment, he was the CEO of Kenya Airways’ subsidiary, Jambojet. “It is particularly gratifying to me ...

Central Mountain Air (CMA) has named Bob Cummings as their Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Cummings was most recently an Executive Vice President with WestJet Airlines from 2006 until October 2018. Under his commercial leadership, WestJet revenue grew from just over one billion in revenue to more than...

JA Canada and the Canadian Business Hall of Fame announced on Dec. 17 that Air Canada President and Chief Executive Officer Calin Rovinescu will be inducted as a Companion into the 2020 Canadian Business Hall of Fame. "Calin's exceptional business and leadership achievements have been widely re...

The Board of Airports Company South Africa has noted concern from various stakeholders on the status of matters relating to the company’s former CEO, Mr. Bongani Maseko. In the interest of transparency, the Board wishes to set the record straight and appraise stakeholders on the status of these m...