MEMBERSHIP OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS

 

As at 17 March 2014

CHAIR OF THE BOARD:

Mr Richard Anderson
Chief Executive Officer
DELTA AIR LINES

MEMBERS


Mr Khalid Abdullah AlmolhemMr Akbar Al Baker
Chief Executive Officer
QATAR AIRWAYS

Director General
SAUDI ARABIAN AIRLINES

Mr David Barger
President and Chief Executive Officer
JETBLUE

Mr David Bronczek
President and Chief Executive Officer
FEDEX EXPRESS

Mr Yang Ho Cho
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
KOREAN AIR

Mr Andrés Conesa
Chief Executive Officer
AEROMEXICO

Mr Enrique Cueto
Chief Executive Officer
LAN AIRLINES S.A.

Mr Alexandre de Juniac
President and Chief Executive Officer
AIR FRANCE-KLM
(representing AIR FRANCE)

Mr German Efromovich
President of the Board of Directors
AVIANCA

Mr Christoph Franz
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
LUFTHANSA

Mr Tewolde GebreMariam
Chief Executive Officer
ETHIOPIAN AIRLINES

Mr Goh Choon Phong
Chief Executive Officer
SINGAPORE AIRLINES

Mr Naresh Goyal
Chairman
JET AIRWAYS (INDIA) LTD

Mr Rickard Gustafson
President and Chief Executive Officer
SAS

Mr Peter Hartman
Vice Chairman of the Board
AIR FRANCE-KLM
(representing KLM)

Mr James Hogan
President and Chief Executive Officer 
ETIHAD AIRWAYS

Mr Harry Hohmeister
Chief Executive Officer
SWISS

Mr Alan Joyce
Chief Executive Officer
QANTAS

Mr Temel Kotil
President and Chief Executive Officer
TURKISH AIRLINES

Mr Liu Shaoyong
Chairman 
CHINA EASTERN AIRLINES

Mr Pham Ngoc Minh
President and Chief Executive Officer
VIETNAM AIRLINES

Mr Titus Naikuni
Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
KENYA AIRWAYS

Mr Masaru Onishi
Chairman
JAPAN AIRLINES

Mr Calin Rovinescu
President and Chief Executive Officer
AIR CANADA

Mr Vitaly G. Saveliev
Chairman
AEROFLOT

Mr Si Xian Min
President/Chairman
CHINA SOUTHERN AIRLINES

Mr Antonio Vázquez
Chairman
IAG Board of Directors
(representing IBERIA)

Mr Willie Walsh
Chief Executive Officer
International Airlines Group


 

 

 
Jun 03, 2014


 

DOHA, Qatar - The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced that Calin Rovinescu, President and CEO of Air Canada, has assumed his duties as Chairman of the IATA Board of Governors for a one-year term, effective immediately.

Rovinescu succeeds Richard H. Anderson, CEO of Delta Air Lines, whose one-year term expired at the conclusion of the Association’s 70th Annual General Meeting (AGM) and World Air Transport Summit in Doha, Qatar.

Rovinescu joined Air Canada in 2000 as Executive Vice President, Corporate Development and Strategy. In addition, he held the position of Chief Restructuring Officer during the airline’s 2003-2004 restructuring. From 2004 until he rejoined Air Canada in 2009 in his current position, Rovinescu was a Co-founder and Principal of Genuity Capital Markets, an independent investment bank. Prior to 2000, he spent more than 20 years in the legal profession, including serving as the Managing Partner at Stikeman Elliott in Montreal.

“As we continue to celebrate 100 years of commercial aviation, I am excited at the opportunity of taking on the Chairmanship of the IATA Board of Governors. Air transport delivers enormous benefits to the global economy every day. I look forward to working closely with Director General and CEO Tony Tyler to encourage and support industry and government policies and practices that will enable aviation to play an even bigger role in the global economy during the second century of commercial flight,” said Rovinescu.

“On behalf of IATA’s 240 members, I want to extend our thanks to Richard for his strong leadership during a year in which an historic agreement to develop a market-based measure to manage aviation’s carbon emissions was reached through the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) with the strong support of IATA,” said Tyler.

“Under Richard’s leadership, IATA partnered with key stakeholders to deliver significant results. We worked with ICAO and governments to modernize the approach of the Tokyo Convention on the treatment of disruptive passengers. We concluded a formal partnership with Airports Council International (ACI) on a broad range of issues. This includes the Smart Security initiative, which aims to strengthen security, increase operational efficiency, and improve the passenger experience. And we worked with the travel value chain to build trust and support for the development of the standards for the New Distribution Capability (NDC), for which the US Department of Transportation gave tentative approval in May,” said Tyler.

“Calin will be a fitting successor to Richard. His proven leadership will be crucial as IATA works with our industry and government partners to address a number of priorities, including aircraft tracking, improving safety in Africa, and continuing to support ICAO efforts to draft a market-based measure. I know I can count on Calin to provide strong support for the NDC initiative to modernize the standard for transmission of airline product offers,” said Tyler.

IATA also announced that the Board of Governors appointed Andres Conesa, Aeromexico CEO to serve as Chairman from June 2015 following Rovinescu’s term.

AFRICAN SKIES NOW SAFER THAN EUROPE WITH LESS CRASH FATALITIES SAYS IATA

By Kari Lundgren

 

More than 3 billion people traveled safely on 36.4 million flights in 2013, with 81 commercial planes suffering accidents, the International Air Transport Association said. Photographer: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images.

Fatalities from jetliner crashes fell by almost 50 percent last year, buoyed by an improved record in Africa that made the region safer than former Soviet countries, the International Air Transport Association said.

There were 210 deaths from commercial aviation accidents, down from 414 in 2012, the Montreal-based industry body said in a statement. The number of fatal crashes rose by one to 16.

More than 3 billion people traveled safely on 36.4 million flights in 2013, with 81 commercial planes suffering accidents, IATA said. The loss rate for Western-built jets in Africa was cut to 2.03 per million from 4.55, with just one written off, while the figure for the so-called Commonwealth of Independent states rose from zero to 2.09, the worst record globally.

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“We are seeing progress in Africa,” IATA Chief Executive Officer Tony Tyler said today, adding that for all aircraft types the accident rate for sub-Saharan nations also improved nearly 50 percent, to 7.45 per million. While none of the association’s members suffered losses in the CIS, “the region as a whole experienced a significant deterioration.”

About 20 percent of all accidents were fatal, unchanged from a year earlier. Runway incidents continue to be the most common, accounting for 23 percent of the total over the past five years, though survivability is high, with the category accounting for only 8 percent of deaths, IATA said.

The loss rate for Western-built aircraft for the industry as a whole stands at 0.41 per million, equivalent to one accident per 2.4 million flights.

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With the Malaysian Airline System (MAS) Bhd. Boeing Co. 777 that vanished on March 8 carrying 239 passengers and crew, 2014 is already set to return a higher fatality figure than 2013.

“The airline industry, its stakeholders and regulators are in the beginning of the journey to unravel this mystery, understand the cause and find ways to ensure that it never happens again,” Tyler said in the statement.

To contact the reporter on this story: Kari Lundgren in London at  klundgren2@bloomberg.net

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To contact the editors responsible for this story: Benedikt Kammel at  bkammel@bloomberg.net Christopher Jasper.