MTU Aero Engines opened a new sales office in Seoul in South Korea on November 18th. The MTU Aero Engines Seoul Representative Office is managed by Kyoo Joo Chae.
AMR Corporation named Charles Schubert to Vice President – Network Planning and Andrew Backover to Vice President – Corporate Communications for American Airlines. The company also selected Pedro Fabregas as Senior Vice President – Customer Service for American Eagle, the regional airline affiliate of American Airlines. Schubert succeeds Walter Aue who will retire on Dec.
Cambridge Airport has appointed David Surley as Senior Business Development Manager. He joined the airport’s management team on November 14th in this newly created role which will see David take responsibility for developing Cambridge Airport as the airport of choice for niche premier and business short haul airline operations accessing the East of England.
Boeing has named Stephanie Pope vice president, Investor Relations, effective Feb. 1st, 2012. Pope will take over from Scott Fitterer, who will assume the role of vice president, Financial Planning & Analysis. Both will report to Greg Smith, who was recently announced as Boeing’s next chief financial officer, effective Feb. 1st.
FlyNiki founder Niki Lauda has resigned as CEO of the Austrian airline and has been appointed to the Board of Air Berlin PLC as Non-Executive Director.
Revima APU, a leading independent APU MRO provider, based in Caudebec-en-Caux, France, appointed Antoine Marez as Director of Strategic Purchasing. Antoine will be responsible for the development of long term agreements with suppliers in support of existing and new APU programs . Before joining Revima APU, Antoine was responsible at Pratt & Whitney Canada of Aftermarket
Helmut Himmelreich is taking over as the new Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Air Berlin PLC. Since March 2010 he has been airberlin’s Chief Maintenance Officer. That post will now be filled by his deputy, Marco Ciomperlik, who has already been a member of the Management Board at airberlin technik for some years. Christoph Debus,
Mubadala Aerospace reported the formation of a senior leadership team for its global Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) network, encompassing ADAT in Abu Dhabi and SR Technics, based in Zurich, Switzerland. Homaid Al Shemmari will be the Chairman of the Mubadala Aerospace MRO network; Jeremy Chan is appointed Executive Vice Chairman; and James Stewart is appointed
Boeing Executive Vice President, Corporate President and Chief Financial Officer James Bell announced plans to retire from the company, effective April 1, 2012. Greg Smith corporate controller and finance vice president, has been elected by Boeing’s board of directors to succeed Bell as executive vice president and chief financial officer effective Feb. 1, 2012; the two
LAN and TAM have started the technical and preliminary processes for their integration into LATAM Airlines Group (LATAM). In this context, LAN and TAM have defined the new corporate structure which will be implemented once the merger is completed, as expected, within the first quarter 2012: Mauricio Rolim Amaro, current Vice-Chairman of TAM’s Board of Directors,
