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News of promotions, appointments, and honors involving professionals within the commercial aviation and airport communities.
Julia Hillenbrand has been appointed as SWISS’s new Head of Brand Experience. Hillenbrand, who is presently the Lufthansa Group’s Senior Director Sales Western Europe based in Madrid, succeeds Caroline Drischel, who took up her own…
SITA announced the appointment of Matthys Serfontein as President, Americas. Serfontein returns to SITA after a two-year hiatus to drive SITA’s growth in the Americas, where travel has rebounded sharply in the wake of the…
Etihad Cargo, the cargo and logistics arm of Etihad Aviation Group, has appointed Tim Isik as Vice President – Commercial. Based in Etihad Cargo’s headquarters in Abu Dhabi, Isik will oversee the carrier’s global commercial operations.…
JetBlue announced the appointment of Al Spencer as the carrier’s new Vice President, and Controller. Spencer will oversee the company’s corporate accounting, tax, payroll, accounts payable and fraud, and revenue accounting teams. He will report…
Avports is pleased to announce Matt Shelby as the company’s new vice president of business development. Mr. Shelby comes to Avports poised to help the company build on its 95-year history and aggressively grow its airport…
In 1985, Thomas Betti’s father took him to the Cleveland Airshow. At five years old, Tom was fascinated with two things, aviation and James Bond. That day at the airshow, as the little boy looked…
JetBlue Airways announced the appointment of Jeff Winter as the carrier’s new vice president, JetBlue University. He will report to Warren Christie, JetBlue’s head of safety, security, fleet operations, and JetBlue University. Based in Orlando,…
Airport hospitality specialist OTG has named Jill Myers as the company’s Vice President of Business Diversity and Community Engagement. Myers, who has worked in the airport hospitality industry for over 30 years, was most recently…
RS&H announced today that Amy Davis has joined the national engineering, architecture, and consulting firm as its Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer following the retirement of former CFO Holt Graves. Davis brings more…
El Al Israel Airlines has appointed Dina Ben Tal Ganancia, its present vice president for commercial and industry affairs, as chief executive officer. Ben Tal Ganancia will succeed Avigal Soreq, who was appointed CEO of Israel’s…