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Bombardier announced the appointment of Mr. Thierry Desmarest to its Board of Directors.

Omar Benediktsson has been appointed Managing Director of the charter airline SmartLynx in Latvia. He succeeds Mr.Eugene O’Reilly, who has served as Managing Director of SmartLynx on a temporary basis, and will now as planned return to his post as Assistant Managing Director of Icelease. Mr.O’Reilly has also been appointed to the Supervisory Board of

Gulfstream International Group announced the appointment of Gary L. Fishman to the Gulfstream board of directors to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Douglas Hailey who resigned for personal reasons effective January 19, 2009.

BOC Aviation announced that Ms Zhang Yanling, Executive Vice President of Bank of China (

Jet Aviation has restructured its U.S. executive management. Jim Ziegler, who had been chief operating officer of U.S. operations, is leaving the company and will become an advisor to Jet Aviation. Since Januar 16th, Gary Dempsey, Jet Aviation’s president of Flight Services for The Americas, and Kurt Sutterer, president, MRO & Completions of Midcoast Aviation,

At an extraordinary meeting of the ANA Board of Directors, ANA senior executive vice president Shinichiro Ito was named as president and CEO, effective from April 1 this year. In his 35 years at ANA, Mr. Ito has held senior positions spanning the major areas of the company, including Engineering and Maintenance, Airport Administration, Personnel,

AD Aerospace, part of AD Group, has appointed Rob Nash as its new Business Development Manager for the EMEA region. Rob will promote and support AD Aerospace

Finnair’s CFO, MSc (Econ.), Lasse Heinonen has been appointed Executive Vice President and Finnair’s Deputy CEO as of January 13th. Mr. Heinonen has been serving Finnair since 2004 and he is a member of the Executive Board of Finnair Plc and the Management Board of the Finnair Group.

AAR CORP. announced that Dave Cann, former head of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Flight Standards Service, Aircraft Maintenance Division has joined AAR as Vice President, Regulatory Compliance responsible for quality and safety at the Company’s repair station businesses.

Jim Winestock, a 40-year veteran of UPS who for the past four years has overseen all package operations in the United States, will retire in February. He will be succeeded as the senior vice president of U.S. operations by Myron Gray, currently the head of UPS