People
March 1st 2015
All Nippon Airways (ANA) has announced that senior vice president, Shinya Katanozaka, will succeed Shinichiro Ito as president and CEO of ANA Holdings on April 1. Ito, who has led the airline group through a transformative period of growth, will take over from Yoji Ohashi as chairman of ANA Holdings. Read More »
Jet Airways has promoted Ravichandran Narayan from vice president finance to acting chief financial officer, a position that has been vacant at the Indian carrier since former CFO, Ravishankar Gopalakrishan, who also had been acting CEO, left the airline last May.
Dr Fang Liu, director of the department of international affairs at the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), is expected to succeed Raymond Benjamin as the secretary general of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) when he retires in mid year. If successful, Ms Liu will be the first woman to lead ICAO and its 191 states. A lawyer by training, who completed her PhD in air and space law at Leiden University in The Netherlands, Liu joined the CAAC in 1987. In a distinguished career, which included formulating China’s emerging air services agreements legislation, Liu has been elected as chairman of the air services group of the Asia-Pacific Economic Conference (APEC), chosen by China to be its representative on the Air Transport Regulation Panel of ICAO and has been a long time representative on ICAO’s Air Transport Regulation Panel.
