Lease Corporation International (LCI) has announced the appointment of Martin Siegrist as Vice President, Technical. Siegrist was previously Vice President Engineering & Planning at Swiss International Air Lines. From 2000 to 2002, he was the Technical Director of Flightlease, the aircraft lessor. His responsibilities will include the technical oversight of LCI
LAN CARGO S.A., cargo subsidiary of LAN Airlines S.A. reported that on May 9, 2008 it presented to the Colombian aviation authorities a formal proposal for the creation of a new cargo airline in that country. LAN CARGO
Astronics Corporation reported that it signed an agreement with Panasonic Avionics Corporation (Panasonic) to develop and supply the power distribution system that will be integrated with Panasonic
BOC Aviation has expanded its Asia-Pacific marketing team with the appointment of Mr. John Bloemen as Vice President. Based in Singapore, Mr. Bloemen reports to Mr. Steven Townend, Chief Commercial Officer. Following his appointment, BOC Aviation will have a team of nine marketing specialists with presence in Asia, Europe and the Americas. Mr. Bloemen was
Qantas announced it would establish a pilot base in Perth in December 2008. The Chief Executive Officer of Qantas, Mr Geoff Dixon, said around 80 pilots would be based in Perth for intra-Western Australia and transcontinental flying to support the airline’s recently announced capacity increases. “The State’s mining and resource sector is booming and the
PAL Express, the new, low-fares brand of Philippine Airlines, completed its inaugural flight to Caticlan on May 5, 2008. The new carrier, which operates a fleet of nine modern Bombardier Q300 and Q400 turbo-propeller aircraft, will boost services on May 19 when it opens a hub in Cebu. PAL Express will fly a total of
United Airlines named Pete McDonald chief administrative officer and John Tague chief operating officer — two key appointments that will streamline the organization and enable the company to accelerate improvement in both revenue and cost performance, while combining critical corporate functions to capture internal synergies and better enable execution of its business strategy.
Tata Consultancy Services, a leading IT services and business solutions firm, confirmed that it has renewed its managed services contract with Virgin Atlantic. By entrusting the management of its IT infrastructure and applications management to TCS, Virgin Atlantic is in a position to focus on core business activities and flex with the future challenges of
SkyTeam, the global airline alliance, signed a SkyTeam Alliance Associate Adherence Agreement (SAAAA) agreement with the Romanian airline TAROM, indicating the airline is on the track to join the alliance as an Associate airline. As part of the process, TAROM must meet a set of predetermined requirements, in areas such as operations, technologies and products,
