World Low Cost Airlines 2008

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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.
Flybe is headed up by Chief Executive Officer and Chairman Jim French, who over the last 2 years has received numerous recognition awards for steering the airline to become one of Europes leading low cost carriers and for his contribution to the airline industry.	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
Howard Miller 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.	Before conceiving the idea of a new Central-European low fare – low cost airline, József Váradi held the positions of Chief Executive Officer at Malév Hungarian Airlines. Váradi led the Restructuring Program of the company, which resulted in a major improvement of economics, cutting losses from €50 million to €10 million over 2 years.
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.	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.
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.	Andrew has 17 years of experience in the airline industry focused in recent years on supporting the start-up of a number of emerging low fares airlines across the Middle East and Asai. Since June 2005, as CEO Andrew has been leading the set-up and launch of Sama, the new low fares airlines for Saudi Arabia and the Middle East, managed by Mango Aviation Partners of the UK.
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.
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.	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.
Jonathan joined Zoom in late 2006 to set up and manage its new UK operations, and the UK airline – which is a sister company to the established Canadian airline of the same name – commenced operations in June 2007 with low-cost flights between London Gatwick and New York JFK	Silverjet is a business-class only service, based on the single carriage model of low cost carriers. Led by Lawrence Hunt, Silverjet was able to launch in just 8 months following its successful IPO on the London Stock Market (SIL.L). Innovative ideas such as a separate ladies bathroom, private terminal, 30 minute check-in and boarding, and carbon neutral status, enable Silverjet to set itself apart from its competitors and offer customers a truly different experience.

Andrea Spiegel, Vice President - Sales & Marketing, JetBlue
Andy Jefferson, Environment Manager, BAA London Stansted
Anurag Jain , Head of Pricing & Revenue Management, Air Deccan
Arian van der Werff, Business Development Manager, Transavia
Arun Kumar, Head Business Alliances, Ancillary Revenue & Marketing, Deccan Aviation Limited
Benoit Brunot, CEO, Grenoble and Chambery Airport Companies
Bernard Berger, Director, Route Development, Ryanair
Bjorn Kjos, Chief Executive Officer, Norwegian Air Shuttle
Bobby Healy, Chief Technology Officer, Cartrawler
Brian Clark, Vice President, Planning and Sales, Virgin America
Christian Mandl, Founder, Sky Europe Holdings
Daniel Calleja Crespo, Director, Air Transport, DG Energy and Transport, European Commission
Daniel Skjeldam, Chief Commercial Officer, Norwegian Air Shuttle
David Hall, Chief Financial Officer, Jetstar Airways
David Johnstone, Managing Director, Edinburgh Airport
David Leitch, Group General Manager, Business Development, Infratil Airports
David Stewart, co-founder, Aerostrategy
Dot Gade Kulovuori, Airport Director, Stockholm Skavsta Airport AB
Edgardo Badiali, Chief Executive Officer, GoAir
Elena Ponomareva, Deputy General Director, Sky Express
Francesca Ecsery, General Manager, Cheapflights UK
Frantz Yvelin, Chief of Development and Strategy Officer, L'Avion
Frosti Sigurjonsson, CEO and Co-Founder, Dohop
George Henderson, Head of Information Technology, Silverjet
Gidon Novick, Chief Executive Officer, Kulula
Greg Thomas , Chief Executive Officer , PrivatAir
Hans Nolte, Chief Executive Officer, Hahn Air
Hans-Dieter Faerber, Head of Airline Distribution and Passenger Logistics, TUI Aviation
Henriette Thilert, Director of Revenue Management, Aer Lingus
Iain Meaker, Executive Vice President Distribution, Kulula
Jason Bitter, Chief Executive Officer, Sky Europe Airlines
Javier Díez Cardona, Chief Executive Officer, Wondair
Jay Sorenson, IdeaWorks
Jean-Michel Dancoisne, Chief Executive Officer, Thalys International
Jeff Chatfield, Chairman, Skywest
Jeff Rutledge, President, AIG Travel, Inc
Joao Monteiro, Chief Operating Officer Solutions, LSG Sky Chefs
John Strickland, Managing Director, JLS Consulting
John Weatherill, Regional Vice President, Europe, InterVISTAS-EU Consulting
Keith Hanbury-Chatten, Head of Operations, Flyforbeans Aviation Ltd
Konstantin Teterin, Chief Executive Officer, Redwings
Lim Su Ching, Director, Ancillary, AirAsia
Lionel Flasseur, Directeur Marketing et Politique Commerciale, Aéroport Lyon-Saint Exupéry
Marcus Gerke, Vice President, Information Technology, Eurowings
Matthew Hall, Vice President, Airline Business Development, EMEA , Travelport
Maunu Von Lüders, Chief Executive Officer, Fly Nordic
Michael Wirth, Head of Information Technology, OasisHongKong
Michael Hansen, Chief Commercial Officer, Sterling Airlines
Michael Harrington, General Manager, Myair
Mike Rutter, Chief Commercial Officer, Flybe
Mohammed Al Bulooki, Director of Marketing & Communications, Abu Dhabi Airports Company
Niels-Eirik Nertun, Director of Environment & Sustainability, SAS Group
Norbert Zoet, Vice President, Business to Consumer, Transavia
Ole Wieth Christensen, Head of Route Development, Copenhagen Airports A/S
P P Singh, Chief Operating Officer, Air India Express
Pak Chen Ho, Head of Revenue Management, XL.com
Patee Sarasin, Chief Executive Officer, Nok Air
Patrick Liam Weil , Chief Executive Officer , Kiwijet
Paul Kehoe, CEO, Bristol International Airport
Paul Clark, Director, IATA Training & Development Institute
Paul Simmons, Head of Brand Marketing, Product and Distribution, Easyjet
Pete Mcglade, Vice President, Scheduled Services, Southwest Airlines
Peter Harbison, Executive Director, Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation
Peter Leiman, Managing Director , Blink
Phil Gunter, GM, Loyalty, Virgin Blue
Richard Mintern, Chief Information Officer, Monarch Airlines
Robert Martin, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, BOC Aviation Pte. Ltd.
Roman Pane, Chief Executive Officer, Futura
Spencer Birns, Head of Aviation Relations, Cardiff International Airport
Stefan Vilner, Chief Executive Officer, Jetbird
Stephan Nagel, Senior Vice President Strategy, Air Berlin
Steve Howard, Chief Executive Officer, Climate Group
Steven Greenway, Chief Commercial Officer , SkyEurope Airlines
Vicenc Marti, Chief Marketing Officer, Vueling
Vlamir Domic, CEO, Lan Express
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, Chairman of the Board, Atlas Blue