Here are the key executive changes for Feb-2020;
- Nepal's Government appointed Kedar Bahadur Adhikari as Nepal Airlines executive chairman;
- Skymark Airlines appointed Hayao Hora as president, replacing Masahiko Ichie, who retired at the board meeting on 13-Feb-2020;
- GoAir appointed Vinay Dube as CEO. Mr Dube previously served as Jet Airways CEO and has served GoAir is an advisory role since Oct-2019;
- Singapore Airlines announced the following appointments, effective 01-Apr-2020:
- Mak Swee Wah as executive VP operations. Mr Wah is currently executive VP commercial;
- Lee Lik Hsin as executive VP commercial. Mr Hsin is currently CEO of Scoot;
- Tan Kai Ping as executive VP finance and strategy. Mr Ping is currently senior VP marketing and planning.
- Singapore Airlines (SIA) announced plans to reappoint Campbell Wilson as CEO of Scoot, effective 01-Apr-2020. Mr Wilson will replace Lee Lik Hsin, who will assume the role of EVP commercial at SIA;
- PAL Holdings appointed Lucio C Tan as president, effective 18-Feb-2020. Mr Tan is also a chairman of the company;
- Nok Air announced the following directors will retire from its board of directors by rotation on 27-Feb-2020:
- Prasert Bunsumpun as independent director and chairman of the board;
- Nopporn Chandawanich as director and member of the executive committee;
- Apichart Chirabandhu as independent director, chairman of the nomination and
- remuneration committee and member of the audit committee;
- Chiraporn Chemnasiri as independent director, chairman of the audit committee and member of the nomination and remuneration committee.
- HNA Group appointed Gu Gang as executive chairman and Ren Qinghua as co CEO along with Adam Tan on 29-Feb-2020. Chen Feng remains as chairman;
- Pakistan's Cabinet approved the appointment of Aslam R Khan as Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) chairman;
- Japan Airlines Group announced the following executive changes, effective 01-Apr-2020:
New appointments:- Yuichi Kitada: Director - managing executive officer;
- Munekazu Tachibana: SVP - flight operations;
- Promotions:
- Shinichiro Shimizu: Executive VP;
- Yuichi Kitada: SVP of engineering and maintenance and president of JAL Engineering.