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PEOPLE ++ Delta Shuttle has named Carolyn Ezzell managing director (MD). Ezzell, a Delta employee for 21 years, was previously a director of airport customer service. She replaces Bill Crumbley, promot ed to MD field operations for Delta's Inflight Service depart ment. ++ Textron has promoted its vice-president (VP) and treasur er. Edward Arditte. to the newly created position of VP e-procure- ment. Succeeding Arditte is Mary Lovejoy. formerly Textron's VP communications and investor rela tions, who is replaced by Douglas Wilburne. Senior VP and chief information officer Kenneth Bohlen has been promoted to executive VP and chief innovation officer. ++ GE Capital Aviation Training, a joint venture between GE and Thomson-CSF, has appointed Marjorie DeLong as manager, marketing and sales, for the Americas. DeLong previously served as senior sales manager at SimuFlite Training. ++ August DeLuca has been named execu tive VP and chief financial officer (CFO) of US-based Kistler Aerospace, developer of the K-l launcher. DeLuca was previously senior VP and treasurer. ++ The Regional Airline Association has appointed Scott Foose VP. He joins from Allegheny Airlines/US Airways Express where he served as director of safety and regulatory compliance. Deborah McElroy was appointed president earlier this year. ++ Catherine Stalker has been appointed chief execu tive of SAirGroup charter carrier Balair/CTA. replacing Karl Lichtenstein, who returns to his previous post of head of opera tions "at his own request". Stalker takes over on 1 June. ++ DHL Airways. US arm of DHL Worldwide Express, has named Shawn Farshchi senior VP infor mation services and chief informa tion officer. ++ Kitty Hawk has appointed Paul Tate as senior VP finance and CFO. Tate joins from Atlantic Coast Airlines Holdings where he served as senior VP finance, CFO and treasurer. ++ David Slonim is the new VP line maintenance for America West Airlines. He was recently VP air craft line maintenance for FedEx. Boeing expects rocketing space revenues to spearhead growth CHRIS JASPER/LONDON BOEING IS looking to its Space and Communications group, bolstered by the purchase of Hughes Electronics' space activi ties, to spearhead growth. President and chief operating offi cer Harry Stonecipher tells Flight International that revenues in the sector are set to soar. Space and Communications had revenues of$6.8 billion last year, or 12% of the Seattle giants S58 billion turnover. This year's sales should total $7.5-8 billion even without the Hughes purchase, which should atld S3 billion. Prospects for Boeing's Military Aircraft and Missile Systems division, which contributed $12.2 billion or 21 % of sales last year, are "flat to down", Stonecipher says, although the sector already enjoys double-digit margins. Com mercial Airplanes group, the com pany's largest element (con tributing exactly two-thirds of rev enues or S3K billion in 1999) does Slauccipbcr: transatlantic tie-ups? not expect to see growth of more than 4% a year either, although margins should be restored to dou ble figures from last year's 5%. "Space and Communications will be the growth part of the Boeing Company," Stonecipher says, dismissing recent failures in the sector as "lumps in the road". The company would have been happy to buy Iridium, he says, but could not "make the business case". He adds that Boeing's moves in space and e-commerce mean that the "big boys" are embracing the communications revolution. Boeing agreed to buy Hughes after it was offered for private sale by the General Motors subsidiary. Further expansion ot the division could come from more bolt-on buys, although organic growth will itself be double-digit. Margins will be low, however, as investment in the sector remains high. Stone- cipher highlights Boeing's services business - from aircraft mainte nance to financing deals - as the other likely growth driver, with anticipated growth rates of 25%. On the question of transatlantic mergers, he says guidelines for tie- ups might best be established by presenting a done-deal to regula tors, rather than waiting for advice from governments. He believes European national concerns will be a bigger stumbling block to merg ers than those of the US Government. • Venezuela turmoil attracts start-ups PAUL LEWIS/WASHINGTON DC A N E\ V CARRIER, TransVen, is to venture into the troubled Venezuelan air transport sector as the country's two major airlines, Aserca and debt-ridden Avensa, negotiate a deal to consolidate international services ahead of a possible merger. TransVen will initially focus on charter sen ices from Caracas to destinations such as Buenos Aires and Dominica. It is discussing the lease ol two early ex-Swissair Airbus A310-30()s. ' The rescue plan tor Avensa would see it and Aserca lease three McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30s from Pegasus, allowing Avensa to re-open routes to south European cities including Lisbon, Madrid, Milan, Oporto and Rome. Aserca will launch flights to destinations including Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, while con necting with Avensa flights to Europe. Caracas-based Avensa s debts total S59 million, with the state - a 20% shareholder - unwilling to bail it out. Aserca wants to see the issue addressed before signing a deal. Wilmar Castro has replaced major shareholder I lenry Boulton as Avensa's president, a transition opposed by unions, which are filing for a legal occupation of its premis es and an asset seizure to safeguard wages ahead of any merger. A ileal, if concluded, could be extended to include Air Aruba, which is 70% owned by Aserca. Alternatively, there are sugges tions that Aeropostal could merge with Avensa, which also flvs to Bogota, Lima and Quito, and which suspended European ser vices after returning two earlier DC-10s to Pegasus. Its pared-back fleet comprises three Boeing 727s and a McDonnell Douglas DC-9. It is trying to lease up to five EMB- 120 Brasilias to bolster capacity. Another start-up, Roraima Airlines, is to launch operations in the next 60 days in southern Venezuela and northern Brazil. Funded by investors from both countries, Roraima will have an ini tial capitalisation of S5 million and operate two 90-seat DC-9-50s, subject to government approval. Based in Puerto Ordaz. it will serve frontier destinations not yet linked by air, such as Porlamar, Barcelona and Maturin in Venezuela, and Boa Vista, capital of Brazil's Roraima province. Zl FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 18 - 24 April 2000
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