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American Airlines Cargo appoints new head of Florida, Caribbean and Latin America
American Airlines Cargo has announced the appointment of Lorena Sandoval as managing director of its Florida, Caribbean and Latin America (FCLA) division.She takes over from Carmen Taylor who retired from the airline at the end of 2016. Sandoval joined the carrier 26 years ago in Quito, Ecuador, and has held ...
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NewsAmerican Airlines promotes Rick Elieson to president–cargo
American Airlines has appointed Rick Elieson as president–cargo overseeing all aspects of the US carrier's worldwide cargo business.Elieson will report to Jim Butler, who recently succeeded Art Torno as senior vice president–international and cargo, following Torno's retirement."We often look at cargo as an airline within an airline," said Butler, adding: ...
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Strauss to replace retiring Turpin at Air Canada
Tim Strauss is about to swap his Hawaiian shirts for warm winter gear. The genial American will relinquish his role at the helm of Hawaiian Air Cargo at the end of this month and move to Montreal, where he is to take over the reins of Air Canada Cargo from ...
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Emirates SkyCargo appoints Ross Barnett as UK Cargo Manager
Emirates SkyCargo has appointed Ross Barnett as UK cargo manager.With over 30 years’ experience in the industry, he joined Emirates in 1995 and was most recently cargo manager for Northern England and Scotland where he was responsible for over 20 staff based in the region.Now based in London, he will ...
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BIFA creates new directors
The British International Freight Association (BIFA) board has approved the promotion of Robert Windsor and Spencer Stevenson to directors of BIFA.BIFA is the trade association for UK-registered companies engaged in the international movement of freight by all modes of transport: air, road, rail and sea.Windsor, who joined the BIFA secretariat ...
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NewsJon Conway joins the Airport Services Association as director general
Jon Conway, dnata’s former divisional senior vice president airport operations, has been appointed director general of the Airport Services Association (ASA)Conway, who brings four decades of industry experience to Switzerland-based ASA, will take up his new position from the beginning of March, 2017.ASA, originally set up under the name of ...
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AA Cargo's Jim Butler promoted as Art Torno retires
American Airlines has announced that Art Torno will retire from his role of senior vice president - international and cargo, to be replaced by Jim Butler.Torno joined American in 1979 as a flight attendant and has held numerous leadership positions, including vice president - New York, vice president - Caribbean ...
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Ulf Weber to leave AeroLogic for top job at ASL Belgium
ASL Belgium, formerly TNT Airways, has poached Ulf Weber from AeroLogic, the Lufthansa and DHL Express joint venture.Weber, who is currently managing director and accountable manager at AeroLogic, will join ASL Belgium as chief executive.Colin Grant, who had been acting chief executive of the airline following its acquisition by ASL ...
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Etihad's Hogan to step down in second half of 2017
James Hogan will step down as president and chief executive of Etihad Aviation Group in the second half of 2017.Hogan will join an investment company along with Etihad Aviation Group chief financial officer James Rigney, who will also leave the company later this year. A global search for their replacements ...
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NewsHappy days for Cunningham at FedEx Express
David Cunningham's promotion as head of FedEx Express has been fast tracked from the original 2018 start date.Cunningham will succeed David Bronczek as president and chief executive of FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp and the world’s largest cargo airline.Bronczek has been promoted to the new role as president ...
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Etihad's Hogan attacks critics of partnership strategy as core element for growth
Etihad Aviation Group’s president and chief executive, James Hogan, has hit out at critics of the Middle East carrier’s partnership strategy, describing it as a “core element of the growth of the business”.Hogan, delivering a keynote speech at the Global Airfinance Conference in Dublin, said that the strategy had resulted ...
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Antonov Airlines appoints UK sales team
Antonov Airlines – operator of the Antonov AN-124, AN-225 and AN-22 aircraft – has appointed Dreamlifts Limited as its general sales agent, replacing Ruslan International.Based at Antonov’s new offices in Stansted Airport’s Diamond Hangar, Dreamlifts’ sales team includes experienced names in the outsize cargo sector.Paul Furlonger continues his long association ...
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Turkish Airlines appoints Turhan Özen as chief cargo officer
Turkish Airlines has appointed Turhan Özen as chief cargo officer.Özen, who joined the carrier in 2006, started his career in 1991 at IVECO, where he worked in sales, marketing, and logistics management positions.In 2000, he joined TNT Logistics as business development manager, and later took the position of distribution operations ...
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Marcel de Nooijer appointed executive vice president Air France-KLM Cargo
Marcel de Nooijer has been appointed executive vice president Air France-KLM Cargo. He will join the Air France-KLM Group Executive Committee.De Nooijer replaces Bram Gräber, who stepped down as executive vice president of the airlines' joint cargo arm in June 2016.De Nooijer, aged 48, holds a business administration and management ...
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WFS appoints David Clark as global head of safety & security
David Clark is to join Worldwide Flight Services (WFS), the world’s biggest airfreight handler, as its new global head of safety & security on 27 February next year.Reporting directly to WFS chief executive Craig Smyth, he will be based in Paris.Clark joins WFS from British Airways, where he spent 17 ...
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DSV strengthens commercial team
Freight forwarder DSV has appointed Michael Hansen as divisional chief commercial officer for air and sea and Wilbert Tholhuijsen for DSV Road. They join Meinderdjan Botman (DSV Solutions) and Jenny Purchase ( Sub Saharan Africa) in a team of four chief commercial officers as part of the DSV Global commercial ...
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Lufthansa Cargo to divide regions as part of management cull
Lufthansa Cargo has revealed more details on how it will divide up its regions in order to offload a layer of management in line with its cost cutting programme.The German airfreight giant will now operate with eight regions instead of the previous four to allow it to remove a management ...
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Chapman Freeborn reorganises senior management
Chapman Freeborn Airchartering has made senior management level changes in a move that it says will “help deliver further growth across the group”.In one change, the air charter broker has appointed Pierre van der Stichele to a newly created role, that of group cargo operations director.During his 14 years with ...
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New hand on the tiller at the Kenya Airports Authority
The new managing director and chief executive of the Kenya Airports Authority (KAA), Jonny Andersen, has officially taken up his new position.Andersen was formerly director of national airports at Avinor, the operator of seven state-owned Norwegian gateways.He took over at the KAA from Nicholas Bodo, who had been heading the ...
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Muhammad Albakri to serve as IATA regional vice president for Africa and the Middle East
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced that Muhammad Ali Albakri will join IATA as its regional vice president for Africa and the Middle East (AME) in a move effective as of 1 January.He will be based at IATA’s regional office in Amman, Jordan.“Muhammad Ali Albakri is stepping into ...