Effective 1st December 2011, Alan Hood has been appointed Managing Director, for Aircelle, an Aircelle (Safran group) subsidiary located in Burnley, Lancashire – United Kingdom. He succeeds Andrew White who has moved to another position within Safran Group.
GA Telesis named Russell Bonnell, President of its MRO division, effective January 1, 2012. Consisting of two businesses – GA Telesis Composite Repair Group, based in Ft. Lauderdale and GA Telesis Component Repair Group Southeast, based at Miami International Airport – the division has over 100 employees and is a significant portion of GA Telesis’
The Governing Board of oneworld, the premier global airline alliance, has elected American Airlines Chairman, President and Chief Executive Tom Horton as its Chairman. He takes on the role from Gerard Arpey, whom he succeeded at the helm of the alliance’s US partner late last month following Mr Arpey’s decision to retire from the carrier.
The Chief Executive Board of Star Alliance has appointed Mark Schwab to head the Star Alliance central organisation, based in Frankfurt, Germany as its new Chief Executive. Schwab comes from Star Alliance member United where he was responsible for the company’s alliances as Senior Vice President Alliances. He succeeds Jaan Albrecht, who was appointed as CEO
TAT Technologies has appointed Itsik Maaravi as its new President and Chief Executive Officer effective January 1, 2012. Mr. Maaravi is currently President of TAT’s Piedmont Aviation Component Services, LLC subsidiary (“Piedmont”), a position he has held since July 2011.
Messier-Bugatti-Dowty has appointed Gilles Garczynski, as Executive Vice President, Human Resources. He replaces Stéphane Legrand, who has transferred to another position within the Safran group.
Effective 01 October 2011, Holger Beck, previously Chief Operating Officer of Lufthansa Technical Training, is now heading the Marketing, Sales & Product Management division in his function as Chief Commercial Officer. Karsten Schmidt has been appointed Chief Operating Officer of Lufthansa Technical Training on 14 November 2011. Before, he worked as Managing Director of Lufthansa
Bombardier Aerospace promoted Raphael Haddad to the position of Vice President, Sales, Middle East and Africa, Bombardier Commercial Aircraft and Torbjorn (Toby) Karlsson as Vice President, Sales, Asia-Pacific, Bombardier Commercial Aircraft. Stephen Young was appointed to the position of Vice President, Sales, Aircraft Leasing Companies Bombardier Commercial Aircraft.
American Airlines announced the retirements of two company officers, as well as a series of changes to the company’s global leadership team: Robert W. Reding , Executive Vice President – Operations, will retire Dec. 31, James B. Ream is named Senior Vice President – Operations, assuming additional responsibility for Flight Operations, Operations Planning & Performance, Operations Finance
Spairliners, a Joint Venture between Air France and Lufthansa Technik, announced that Olivier Mazzucchelli is the new CEO Managing Director. Olivier Mazzucchelli co-helms Spairliners alongside of André Schulte-Bisping. With the new management board the company continues to provide a high standard component service customized for A380 operators.
