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Aviation service provider ACC Aviation has appointed Mike Jennings to the role of Vice President, Commercial Sales. The organization, which established its North American subsidiary at the end of 2018, has seen substantial growth despite the challenges faced as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and has brought Jennings on board to further accelerate its

Alaska Air Group’s board of directors has released that Brad Tilden will retire as Chief Executive Officer on March 31, 2021, and Ben Minicucci, president of Alaska Airlines and a member of the Alaska Air Group board, will succeed him. Tilden will continue to serve as Alaska’s board chair. “This announcement is the culmination of

The Supervisory Board of Deutsche Lufthansa AG has appointed Remco Steenbergen as a new member of the company’s Executive Board. Steenbergen will assume the position of Chief Financial Officer effective January 1, 2021. His contract will run until  December 31, 2023. After the resignation of Ulrik Svensson and Thorsten Dirks, Carsten Spohr, Chairman of the

Inflite The Jet Centre (ITJC), part of the Inflite Group of companies, based at London Stansted Airport, has welcomed Sebastien Albouy as the newly appointed General Manager of its MRO business, effective immediately.  He is taking over the role from Alan Barnes. Albouy joins from ABS Jets in Prague where he was Chief Technical Officer.

Joe O’Brien will retire at the end of this year as Deputy CEO and Chief Commercial Officer of Engine Lease Finance (ELF). O’Brien joined the company in September 2006 after sixteen years with the then parentcompany, BTMU Capital Corporation, including serving as a Board Member of ELF from 2000. Since joining the company as EVP

As part of the restructuring program RISE, Lufthansa Technik AG will change the structure of its Executive Board responsibilities. In future, the Executive Board will consist of a Chief Executive Officer (CEO), a Chief Operating Officer (COO) and a Board member for Finance and Human Resources. The COO will then carry responsibility for all operating

Boeing has appointed Jinnah Hosein as the company’s vice president of Software Engineering, effective immediately. In this newly created role, Hosein will report to Greg Hyslop, Boeing chief engineer and senior vice president of Engineering, Test & Technology, and will focus on further strengthening Boeing’s focus on software engineering across the enterprise. Hosein will lead

Helicopter lessor LCI, the aviation division of the Libra Group, has promoted Jaspal Jandu to Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Former CEO, Michael Platt becomes Vice Chairman, and Praveen Vetrivel is appointed Chief Financial Officer (CFO), with immediate effect. Jandu, who became LCI’s Chief Financial Officer in 2014 having joined in 2007, has played an instrumental

Avolon, the international aircraft leasing company, has appointed Paul Geaney as Chief Risk Officer and a member to its Executive Committee. Geaney will assume overall responsibility for the implementation, oversight and continued development of Avolon’s risk management framework and will report to the CEO. A member of Avolon since 2010, he most recently served as