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Jazz Air LP (“Jazz”) announced the resignation of Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer William (Bill) Bredt effective August 10, 2008. Mr. Bredt will be returning to Air Canada as their new Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Bredt was appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at Jazz on August […]

Turboprop manufacturer ATR announced the opening, in association with Malaysia Airlines, of a new training center in Kuala Lumpur. The center will be operated in cooperation with Malaysia Airlines

Egyptair officially became the 21st member of Star Alliance, bringing with it 1,624 weekly flights to 69 destinations around the world. Egyptair is the nation

Northwest Airlines will reduce its frontline and management employees by 2,500 as a result of capacity reductions taken to address the unprecedented run-up in oil prices. In addition, NWA will match its competitors and charge fees for the first checked bag and for frequent flier award tickets, and increase the fees for ticket changes. In

Mario Heinen has been appointed Executive Vice President, Head of the trans-national Centre of Excellence (COE) Fuselage and Cabin with immediate effect. This follows the departure of R

Air Berlin and Thomas Cook Group informed the German Federal Cartel Office on July 11th about the withdrawal of the application to acquire Condor Flugdienst GmbH by Air Berlin. The September 2007 contract for acquiring Condor in the course of a share swap was cancelled by mutual agreement. Both companies have agreed to continue negotiations

SkyWorks announced that Thomas W. Mahr will become CEO of newly-formed SkyWorks Holdings, LLC, parent company of SkyWorks Capital, LLC and SkyWorks Leasing, LLC, and Steven T. Gaal will become President and COO of Holdings. Jeff Craine will assume the position of President & COO of SkyWorks Capital where he previously served as Managing Director.

Lufthansa Technik AERO Alzey has a new chief executive officer. Mark Johnson has taken over the management of the Lufthansa Technik subsidiary with effect from 1 July. Based in Alzey near Frankfurt, the company employs a workforce of over 400 and specializes in the maintenance of regional aircraft engines. Mark Johnson succeeds Peter Kamenz, who

Effective July 1, 2008, Holger Sindemann has taken the position of President and CEO of MTU Maintenance Zhuhai, a joint venture of MTU Aero Engines and China Southern Airlines. In this role, he succeeds Walter Strakosch, who will take over as Senior Vice President Business Development MRO at MTU. Sindemann has been serving as MTU

WestJet announced it has signed a memorandum of understanding to build a distribution and codeshare agreement with U.S. based Southwest Airlines. This memorandum of understanding is the first step that will see both airlines, by late 2009, have the ability to commence codeshare flights across both networks. In the near future, southwest.com will become a