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From September 1981 through June 2001, Kelleher also served as President and CEO of Southwest Airlines. Southwest commenced service with three airplanes in 1971 and today operates a fleet of 513 airplanes performing over 3,300 flights per day. Kelleher’s Company has been profitable for 34 consecutive years and has never furloughed an Employee.	Willie Walsh joined British Airways as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) designate on May 3, 2005 and assumed full CEO responsibilities on October 1 after the retirement of Sir Rod Eddington.Prior to joining British Airways, Willie was CEO at Aer Lingus, a position he was appointed to in the aftermath of 9/11. Faced with bankruptcy and heavy losses, Willie radically restructured the airline and this culminated in it posting an €107 million profit in 2004, making Aer Lingus the most profitable state-owned airline in the western world.
Howard Millar was appointed Deputy Chief Executive and Chief Financial Officer on January 1, 2003, having served as Director of Finance of Ryanair since March 1993. Between April 1992 and March 1993 he served as Financial Controller of Ryanair. Howard was the Group Finance Manager for the Almarai Group, an international food processing company in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from 1988 to 1992.	Alex Cruz was European Partner-Director of the Commercial Aviation division of the consultant Accenture up until September 2006. Alex, had previously occupied positions of responsibility in American Airlines and Sabre, both in the United States and the United Kingdom
Founder of Tune Air Sdn Bhd, Tony together with his partners took over AirAsia Sdn Bhd, Malaysia’s second national carrier and successfully relaunched AirAsia into a low fare carrier in December 2001. Tony is currently a Director and also the Group Chief Executive Officer of AirAsia, Asia’s first low cost carrier. Under his leadership AirAsia has grown from a modest fleet of 2 to 16 currently. The airline has recorded an unbroken profit for the last 2 years since the first day of operation and has carried over 4 million passengers to date.	Brett Godfrey is the Chief Executive and co-founder of publicly listed Virgin Blue Airlines Limited which comprises Australian domestic carrier Virgin Blue, international airline Pacific Blue and Polynesian Blue, a joint venture airline with the Government of Samoa. Together the airlines operate over 325 flights daily to 22 Australian and eight international destinations. Mr Godfrey is also a Director of the Board of WestJet, Canada’s leading low-fare airline offering scheduled service to 33 cities in North America.
Since Mr Davis’ appointment as President and Chief Executive Officer, Tiger Airways has grown its network from just 3 destinations to 16 destinations in 7 countries, was the launch customer of Singapore’s Budget Terminal and has carried more than 2 million passengers. The airline’s achievements and innovation have been recognised by the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation’s “Best Low Cost Airline” Award in 2006.	With over 35 years of professional experience, Mr. Garza has occupied top executive positions in financial institutions and private corporations in Mexico. Mr. Garza is widely acknowledged as leader in his field. Mr. Garza played a key role in the financial engineering that led to the privatisation of Aeroméxico in 1988 that eventually was recognized as one of the most successful turnarounds in the aviation industry of those days. Mr. Garza was Aeromexico’s CFO during its first 3 fiscal years.
Adel Ali, together with the management team has been given credit for setting up the Middle East and North Africa’s first low-cost carrier (LCC), Air Arabia. Adel has brought over 25 years of strategic aviation, tourism and marketing experience to Air Arabia since the company commenced operations in October 2003.	Prior to his appointment, Azran was formerly the Senior Director of Business Development of Astro All Asia Networks plc, a leading Asian digital satellite television and radio broadcaster, where he led the start-up and operational launch of Astro’s international investments and joint ventures across Southeast Asia, India and Greater China – having oversight management responsibility for a portfolio of over US$300 million invested in these businesses.
	Germanwings is a low-cost airline based in Cologne Bonn Airport, Germany. It operates services to over 67 destinations in Europe; 9 within Germany and 58 destinations in Europe. Its main base is Cologne Bonn Airport, with secondary bases at Stuttgart Airport, Berlin-Schönefeld International Airport and Hamburg Airport.

Andrea Spiegel, Vice President - Sales & Marketing, JetBlue
Andrew Cowen, Chief Executive Officer, Sama Airlines
Andrew Kemmetmueller, Service Director, ARINC
Andrew Strong, Chief Operating Officer, FlyBE
Arian van der Werff, Business Development Manager, Transavia
Arun Kumar, Head Business Alliances, Ancillary Revenue & Marketing, Deccan Aviation Limited
Asbjorn Christoffersen, Chief Regulatory Officer, OnAir
Benito Barein, Director Airline Business Group, Hahn Air
Bernard Berger, Director, Route Development, Ryanair
Bill McKimm, Head of Ancillaries, Easyjet
Bjorn Kjos, Chief Executive Officer, Norwegian Air Shuttle
Bobby Healy, Chief Technology Officer, Cartrawler
Brett Godfrey , Chief Executive Officer, Virgin Blue
Brian Clark, Vice President, Planning and Sales, Virgin America
Chris Birch, Head of Product and Service, Virgin
Christian Mandl, Founder, Sky Europe Holdings
Daniel Skjeldam, Chief Commercial Officer, Norwegian Air Shuttle
David Hall, Chief Financial Officer, Jetstar Airways
David Stewart, Principal, Aerostrategy
Edgardo Badiali, Chief Executive Officer, GoAir
Edward Clayton, Principal, Booz Allen Hamilton
Francesca Ecsery, General Manager, Cheapflights UK
Frantz Yvelin, Chief of Development and Strategy Officer, L'Avion
Frosti Sigurjonsson, CEO and Co-Founder, Dohop
Gareth Gaston, Managing Director, Octopus Travel
Gidon Novick, Chief Executive Officer, Kulula
Greg Thomas, Chief Executive Officer, PrivatAir
Hans-Dieter Faerber, Head of Airline Distribution and Passenger Logistics, TUI Aviation
Henriette Thilert, Director of Revenue Management, Aer Lingus
Hugh Dunleavy, Executive Vice President, Commercial Distribution, Westjet
Iain Meaker, Executive Vice President Distribution, Kulula
Jason Bitter, Chief Executive Officer, Sky Europe Airlines
Jay Sorenson,, IdeaWorks
Jean-Michel Dancoisne, Chief Executive Officer, Thalys International
Jeff Chatfield, Chairman, Skywest
Joao Monteiro, Chief Operating Officer Solutions, LSG Sky Chefs
John Strickland, Managing Director, JLS Consulting
John Weatherill, Regional Vice President, Europe, InterVISTAS-EU Consulting*
Jonathan Cooper, AIG
Jonathan Hinkles, President and Chief Executive Officer, Zoom Airlines
Keith Hanbury-Chatten, Head of Operations, Flyforbeans Aviation Ltd
Konstantin Teterin, Chief Executive Officer, Redwings
Lim Su Ching, Director, Ancillary, AirAsia
Marc Szepan, Senior Vice President Airline Operations Solutions, Lufthansa Systems
Marcus Gerke, Vice President, Information Technology, Eurowings
Martin John Harrison, Aviation Consultant,
Marwan Boodai, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Jazeera Airways
Matthew Hall, Vice President, Airline Business Development, EMEA, Travelport
Michael Hansen, Chief Commercial Officer, Sterling Airlines
Michael Harrington, General Manager, Myair
Mike Rutter, Chief Commercial Officer, Flybe
Murray Smyth, Regional Vice President, Europe, Sabre Airline Solutions
Niels-Eirik Nertun, Director of Environment & Sustainability, SAS Group
Nigel Brownlow, Vice President Airline Business Development, Inter Vistas
Norbert Zoet, Vice President, Business to Consumer, Transavia
Ole Wieth Christensen, Head of Route Development, Copenhagen Airport
Olivier Onidi, Head of Unit, Air Transport, DG Energy and Transport, European Commission
P P Singh, Chief Operating Officer, Air India Express
Pak Chen Ho, Head of Revenue Management, XL.com
Patrick Liam Weil, Chief Executive Officer, Kiwijet
Patrick Murphy, , Chairman, , Aviation Performance Consultants
Paul Clark, Director, IATA Training & Development Institute
Pete Mcglade, Vice President, Scheduled Services, Southwest Airlines
Peter Harbison, Executive Director, Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation
Peter Hoslin, Head of Airline Marketing, ADAC - Abu Dhabi Airports Company
Peter Leiman, Managing Director, Blink
Phil Gunter, GM, Loyalty, Virgin Blue
Ramsey Nuwar, Sales and Marketing Director, ARINC
Ray Hall, Vice President, International, Solarc, Inc
Reza Taleghani, Chief Executive Officer, Sterling Airlines
Richard Mintern, Chief Information Officer, Monarch Airlines
Robert Martin, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise
Simon Lilley, Director of Marketing, Flybe
Stefan Stroh, Vice President/Partner, Booz & Company GmbH
Stefan Vilner, Chief Executive Officer, Jetbird
Stephan Nagel, Senior Vice President Strategy, Air Berlin
Steven Greenway, Chief Commercial Officer, SkyEurope Airlines
Tim Jeans, Managing Director, Monarch
Vicenc Marti, Chief Marketing Officer, Vueling
VK Gopalakrishnan, Head Business Management, HCL Technologies
Wang Zhenghua, Chairman, Spring Airlines
Warwick Brady, Chief Executive Officer, PT. Mandala Airlines
William Herp, President and Chief Executive Officer, Linear Air
Wolfgang Raebiger, Managing Director Pilot Training Network, Lufthansa Flight Training
Zouhair Mohamed El Aoufir, CEO, Atlas Blue