JetBlue, New York’s Hometown Airline, appointed John Culp to the role of Vice President Inflight-Experience and Rachel McCarthy to the role of Vice President Talent, effective this month. Culp, most recently served as JetBlue’s Director – Inflight Field Operations. He steps into the helm of JetBlue’s second-largest workgroup during a year of significant growth for
After 4 years heading up several KLM E&M’s Aircraft Hangar Maintenance divisions, Dennis Wetjens has taken up his new position as Managing Director at EPCOR, the AFI KLM E&M subsidiary specializing in the repair and maintenance of pneumatic systems and Auxiliary Power Units (APUs). He takes over from Romain Helmer, now AFI KLM E&M VP
Bombardier appointed Chris Milligan Vice President, Services Sales and Authorized Service Facilities (ASFs). Mr. Milligan will be based in Dallas, Texas. Mr. Milligan began his career with Bombardier in 1996 within its then fractional jet ownership division, and has since held diverse positions of increasing scope and complexity. Most recently within the Service Centre Network,
Effective immediately, Dr. Roland Schütz has been appointed Chief Information Officer (CIO) of all Lufthansa Group airlines. Alongside the premium hub airlines Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines and Swiss, are the flight operations of the second brand, Eurowings, which is to be developed into the number 3 in European point-to-point traffic. In this new role, Schütz, to
Boeing has named Brett Gerry president of Boeing Japan, effective April 1st. He will succeed George Maffeo who will retire from the company after nearly 40 years with Boeing. Gerry will be based in Tokyo, reporting to Marc Allen, president, Boeing International.
Delta Air Lines Board of Directors released that Richard H. Anderson has chosen to retire as CEO effective May 2nd, 2016. At that time, Mr. Anderson will be elevated to Executive Chairman of the Delta Air Lines Board of Directors. Ed Bastian, President of Delta, will be appointed CEO effective May 2nd, 2016 and Glen
Rubin Siddique is to be the new CEO of Lufthansa Technical Training GmbH. On April 1st, he will take over the reins from Andreas Kaden, who is retiring after leading the company for four years. As Chief Commercial Officer, Rubin Siddique has been a member of the Executive Board of LTT since 2013.
Constant Aviation announced the addition of Scott Sweeney to the organization as Vice President, Operations – Birmingham and Las Vegas. Scott has more than 30 years of experience in maintenance operations, sales and customer relations.
Kevin Crowley is succeeding Mark Van Tine as Jeppesen chief executive officer and vice-president, Digital Aviation, for Boeing. Van Tine will retire June 30th, 2016 after more than 35 years with the company. Crowley, who most recently served as vice-president, Technology Development, has previously served as vice-president of 787 Partnering for Success Integration in Boeing
Avtrade appointed Sudi Patel as Asset Manager. Joining Avtrade’s Logistics department in 2008, Sudi developed his career in the Sales department where he achieved rapid progression to Regional Sales Director. With responsibility for developing regional sales strategy and business growth. A driven and committed professional, Sudi’s wealth of aviation industry knowledge and experience within these
