American Airlines chief financial officer James Beer, a graduate of AMR’s executive academy, has resigned unexpectedly. He is leaving to join Californian security software firm Symantec.
Indian Airlines has named long-serving civil servant Vishwapati Trivedi, 53, as its new chairman and managing director.
Former Britannia Airways managing director Kevin Hatton is to take up a new leading role as head of British Airways franchise carrier GB Airways from July.
The Star Alliance has appointed SN Brussels commercial director Philip Saunders as its new vice-president sales, marketing and loyalty.
The Emirates Group has made Patrick Naef senior vice-president of its Mercator IT services group. Maes, who arrives from Zurich Financial Services, served as chief information officer (CIO) at Swissair from 1998-2002. It has also appointed Iain Andrew, formerly the CIO at TUI’s Airline Group and Britannia Airways, as senior vice-president of its Dnata group services arm.
Mathias Friess, director sales North America for Lufthansa, has been recruited by Virgin Blue as its general manager sales, reporting to chief commercial officer Stefan Pichler.
Source: Airline Business
