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Genesis Lease Limited announced the appointment of Brian T. Hayden to its board of directors, effective immediately. Mr. Hayden was employed by General Electric Commercial Aviation Services (GECAS) from 1993 until his retirement at the end of 2008. During his tenure with GECAS, he served as Executive Vice President and the Head of GECAS’ office […]

WestJet announced the immediate appointment of Barry Jackson to its Board of Directors. Barry Jackson is the current Chair of TransCanada Corporation and a Director of Nexen Inc. and Laricina Energy Ltd.

Virgin America appointed Rick Wysong as the airline’s Senior Vice President of Technical Operations. An industry veteran with more than 23 years of experience, Wysong will oversee the airline’s technical operations. Wysong most recently served as Vice President of Engineering, Materials and Planning at United Airlines, where he led Engineering, Supply Chain and Fleet Management

Jet Aviation recently restructured its aircraft management and charter operation in Hong Kong and appointed Barry Collier and Iris Riesen as new managing directors. The growing customer base in the Asia Pacific Rim recently led Jet Aviation to restructure the company’s aircraft management and charter operation in Hong Kong. With the appointment of Barry Collier

SkyWest Airlines named Joe Sigg director of aircraft spares. Sigg replaces Todd Wilkinson, who has taken a new role at SkyWest’s sister carrier, Atlantic Southeast Airlines. In his new role, Sigg will be responsible for the procurement and distribution of all aircraft parts throughout SkyWest’s system, as well as working with maintenance vendors, maintaining the

ExelTech Aerospace announced the resignation of Mr. Pierre Racine from the Board of Directors of the Corporation, as Chair of the Corporate Governance and Human Resources Committee and as a member of the Audit Committee.

Boeing announced a series of personnel moves within its corporate and business unit Finance organizations that will leverage the capabilities and expand the experience of leaders in several key roles. Commercial Airplanes Chief Financial Officer Rob Pasterick has been named vice president of Finance and corporate controller, reporting to Boeing Corporate President and Chief Financial

In its extraordinary meeting held on 9 February 2009, the Supervisory Board of Austrian Airlines has appointed Dr. Peter Malanik and Dr. Andreas Bierwirth as members of the Board of Management with equal rights, and unanimously expressed its confidence in the new team.

Mr. Onno P.M. van den Brink has decided to retire from his current position as President & C.E.O. of transavia.com as per 1 March 2009. Mr. van den Brink took his decision on the eve of the proposed collaboration between Martinair, transavia.com and KLM, which is the subject of a study that was recently initiated

Dr. Christoph Klingenberg has been appointed head of Information Management and Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Lufthansa Passenger Airlines, with effect from 1 April 2009. His responsibilities encompass planning, development and operational steering of all IT systems at Lufthansa Passenger Airlines.