All Interviews – Page 6
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InterviewPegasus chief Ozturk sets diversity example as carrier plots international growth
The Turkish budget airline’s recently appointed chief executive is passionate about improving gender diversity in the industry – and leading the operator’s international expansion
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InterviewHow bold career choices have paid off for Gatwick’s Stephanie Wear
With a background in international tourism and air service development, Stephanie Wear relishes her current role in helping London Gatwick airport to meet its ambitious growth targets.
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InterviewUnited Airlines sustainability chief seeks SAF acceleration as e-fuels excite
The shift to sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) needs to accelerate, in the view of United Airlines chief sustainability officer Lauren Riley, as part of an industry transformation that could one day see CO2-as-a-feedstock become the “future of flying”. Speaking to FlightGlobal in mid-July on the sidelines of this year’s Airline ...
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InterviewHow NTSB accident investigator Zoe Keliher shattered gender bias
US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) aviation accident investigator Zoe Keliher traces her aviation career to the day her father gifted her a flight lesson for her 15th birthday.
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Interview‘Cathay is back’: Airline chief Tang strikes confident tone after tumultuous period
Few airlines have been hit harder by outside factors in the recent past than Cathay Pacific. But chief executive Augustus Tang is confident that good times will return
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InterviewAirbus chief Faury addresses airframer’s hot topics ahead of scorching Farnborough air show
Boss of European aerospae and defence champion explains why radical aircraft concepts are up for consideration in hydrogen-powered future, how it will progress FCAS programme in partnership with Dassault, and why it is incorrect to write-off NH90 helicopter.
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InterviewHow JetSmart chief Estuardo Ortiz intends to transform the way Latin America travels
Almost half of ultra-low-cost carrier JetSmart’s existence has been within the Covid-19 pandemic, but chief executive Estuardo Ortiz says the Chile-based operator is back on the growth path and hopes to persuade one bus passenger at a time to try its services
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InterviewAirAsia X chief charts cautious recovery after restructuring
Malaysia-based AirAsia X is “treading cautiously” after its restructuring, as it looks to building back its operations in an environment that is slowly reopening after two years of the pandemic.
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InterviewChallenges remain as Boeing looks to future at Farnborough
While facing continued certification, production and delivery headaches, Boeing Commercial Airplanes chief executive Stan Deal sees the manufacturer arriving at Farnborough air show with its eyes still on the future.
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InterviewTurkish Airlines fast-tracks return to growth path
Turkish Airlines chairman Ahmet Bolat believes that retaining staff and its strong financial performance through the pandemic has been key to enabling to return to growth as the Istanbul carrier has already passed pre-crisis activity levels.vels.
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InterviewKenya Airways chief keeps eyes on restructuring but sees growth from 2024
Kenya Airways chief executive Allan Kilavuka sees an opportunity to return to growth in 2024, as it focuses in the near-term on implementing a restructuring aimed at securing a sustainable cost base.
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InterviewRelaunched SAA set to take next step
Having relaunched operations in September last year after an 18-month grounding, South African Airways (SAA) is expanding its operations as it capitalises on the recent collapse of local carrier Comair. The South African carrier is increasing capacity on domestic and regional routes, and was in Doha at the recent IATA ...
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InterviewHow New York Air National Guard chief went from P-3s to Skibirds
As the first woman to command the USA’s largest Air National Guard unit, Brigadier General Denise Donnell wants to use her position to inspire anyone to follow their aviation dream
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InterviewRoyal Air Maroc chief sets sights on growth after ‘transformation’ during crisis
Royal Air Maroc is preparing to issue a tender for 22 aircraft as it turns its attentions to developing a growth strategy following what chief executive Abdelhamid Addou describes as the carrier’s ’big transformation’ during the Covid crisis.
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InterviewWalsh sees airline industry capable of recovering financial strength
IATA director general Willie Walsh expects that despite continued Covid headwinds, as well as fresh operational and cost pressures, leaders assemble in Doha for the association’s AGM ready to look beyond the pandemic
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InterviewHow SAF, offsetting and tackling plastics are key to progressing IATA’s sustainability vision
While securing a resolution that committed airlines globally to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 at last year’s AGM underpins the industry’s decarbonisation efforts, it marked only a first step in translating ambition to reality. “After the political statement, the pathway started,” explains Sebastian Mikosz, vice-president of environment and sustainability at ...
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InterviewIATA chief economist on the changing factors impacting airline profit hopes
Conventional wisdom would suggest that surging fuel costs, combined with a slowing in global GDP growth and the inflationary squeeze on household incomes could only mean one thing for airline fortunes. Yet after two pandemic years in which international flying, if possible at all, has been cumbersome and at the ...
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InterviewBoeing’s new defence chief eyes autonomy frontier
Ted Colbert, the new head of Boeing Defense, Space & Security, stands poised to lead his organisation in a decade where the emphasis is decidedly shifting from specific platforms to networked assets and the new frontier of autonomy.
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InterviewHow Western Air’s Sherrexcia Rolle helps the family business fly
For Sherrexcia Rolle, the path to the airline C-suite began as a child on Andros Island, helping out at the airport where her parents established the Bahamas’ now thriving Western Air.
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InterviewEspen Hoiby back rebuilding crew resource firm but with eye on electric future
OSM Aviation built a pioneering crew resourcing model only for the pandemic to decimate the airline sector. Now rebranded as AAP, its founder is back at the helm and plotting not just a swift rebuidling of the business, but an opportunity for further disruption to traditional models with the arrival of electric aircraft