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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,

General Dynamics released that Leda M. L. Chong will become senior vice president, Asia-Pacific Region, of the company’s Aerospace group on November 1, with an initial focus on the People’s Republic of China.  Chong will report to Joseph T. Lombardo, executive vice president of the General Dynamics Aerospace Group, which comprises Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation and

Monarch Aircraft Engineering (MAEL) has appointed Lee Burgess as Head of Sales & Capacity Planning. Lee will be responsible  for the acquisition and development of new business within Monarch Aircraft Engineering ensuring maximum utilisation of the companys engineering facilities.

Joe Clark, Chairman of Aviation Partners Boeing (APB) and CEO of Aviation Partners, announced the appointment of Bill Ashworth as the new President of APB. Prior to joining the APB team he was President of Goodrich Aviation Technical Services and prior to that, he was Manager of the Federal Aviation Administration Seattle Aircraft Certification Office. Mr. Ashworth’s

Tom Corum has been named Vice President of Business Development for Jet Midwest Technik (JMT), a member of the Jet Midwest Group. Tom Corum started his new position at Jet Midwest Technik in Kansas City, MO on October 24, 2011.