| United Airlines has appointed Joe
Mannix as General Manager - Thailand. Mannix is a United Airlines veteran
with 36 years experience at the company. His previous experience in Asia
includes terms in South Korea and Vietnam, with his most recent role as
Country Manager - Vietnam |
| TravelPort Holidays has appointed
Adil J Bajirao as Senior Vice President. Amongst his initial projects
will be to set up a luxury division for the company to compliment its existing
FIT and MICE divisions. Adil brings with him over 15 years of experience
in the travel and airline industry. His last assignment was with TCI as
an Associate Vice President in its leisure Division. He is a post graduate
from TISS and having recently completed a Management Development Program
at IIM - Ahmedabad, is in the process of completing his MBA in Marketing." |
| Thomas Cook (India) (TCIL) announced
the appointment of Angus Porter, to the board of directors today.
Porter is very familiar and extremely knowledgeable about the travel industry
as he was recently appointed as the group strategy director of Thomas Cook
Group plc, prior to that he has been an independent non executive director
on the Thomas Cook Group plc board since June 2007, and before that a non
executive director of the MyTravel Group plc board for five years.
Porter's role is to drive key strategies of Thomas Cook
Group, look for opportunities in new markets and develop new products
and services. He will also take on strategic responsibility for the Thomas
Cook brand and oversee the Group's strategic e-commerce agenda
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| Silversea Cruises has appointed
Andre Nordseth as vice president of hotel operations. In this position,
he is responsible for overseeing the areas of hotel operations, entertainment,
food and beverage, concessionaires and purchasing for the ultra-luxury line.
Based in the Fort Lauderdale office, he reports to Christian Sauleau, executive
vice president of fleet operations.
Most recently, Nordseth served as vice president
of hotel operations and onboard revenue for Regent Seven Seas Cruises.
Prior to his tenure at Regent, he was director of operations for Blue
Lagoon Cruises in the South Pacific
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| Alan Joyce is to become chief executive officer
of Qantas upon the retirement of Geoff Dixon after Qantas' Annual General
Meeting on 28 November 2008. Joyce was previously chief executive officer
of Qantas subsidiary airline Jetstar.
Joyce has 20 years of experience in the aviation industry
including 15 years in leadership positions for full service carriers Qantas,
Ansett and Aer Lingus
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| OnAir has appointed Luc Cousin as chief programmes
officer (CPO), and established a regional presence in Dubai, UAE and Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia.
As CPO, Luc Cousin will be responsible for programme
planning and customer delivery, and for coordinating and supervising OnAir's
activities for installation, entry into service and equipment support.
Cousin will be a member of OnAir's Executive Committee and will play a
critical role in the deployment of OnAir services on various aircraft
types. He previously worked in Airbus Customer Services, where he led
several projects in change management and strategy
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| Franck Michaud has been
appointed as head of business development Middle East, based in Dubai. Hans
Jurgen Stoffer and Laurent Philippe, both based in Kuala Lumpur, have joined
OnAir as head of aircraft programmes for Asia Pacific and as head of business
development for Asia Pacific respectively
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| The Sydney Convention and Visitors Bureau (SCVB)
has appointed Christine Judd as director of sales. Judd has 25 years'
hospitality experience across four continents and was most recently director
of marketing at the Four Seasons Hotel Santa Barbara, California.
She will steer the SCVB's expanded sales team as
it steps up its business development initiatives worldwide, backed by
the bureau's new partnership with Events New South Wales
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| Jumeirah Group, the Dubai-based luxury international
hospitality management group and member of Dubai Holding, has appointed
Thomas Grundner as vice president sales.
Prior to joining Jumeirah, Grundner held senior
sales positions with several key hotel companies in Abu Dhabi, Germany,
Egypt and Spain
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| Carlson Hotels Worldwide - Asia Pacific, has appointed
Jay Krishnan as its first regional director of corporate communications.
Krishnan will be based at Carlson's regional corporate
office in Singapore and joins the company with a decade of public relations
industry experience. In her new role, Krishnan will report directly to
Martin Rinck, president and managing director, Carlson Hotels Worldwide
- Asia Pacific
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