News&People Qantas continues its reorganisation


SCHIPHOL CARGO – the freight business of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol – has created a Lifesciences Steering Group tasked with developing a long-term strategy for the promotion of lifesciences-related activity centred on the gateway.


PWC – PricewaterhouseCoopers – has been confirmed as an advisor to Infratil in the sale of Glasgow Prestwick International airport. It remains an advisor to Infratil in the sale of its other UK gateway, Kent’s Manston airport.


FIJI’S NATIONAL carrier, Air Pacific, is to return to its 1958-70 name of Fiji Airways, as part of a complete review and restructuring of the airline. That reorganisation is already bearing fruit, the carrier believes, and will continue with improvements including the delivery of new A330s.


AUSTRALIAN carrier Qan- tas is to undergo the latest phase in its radical overhaul. As part of a five-year trans-


formation plan that was launched in August 2011, the coming months are to see the airline split into two distinct businesses – Qantas Interna- tional and Qantas Domestic. Each concern will have its


own CEO and its own com- mercial and operational functions. The new structure is expected to be in place by 1 July this year. The move is intended to


allow Qantas to turn around the fortunes of its ailing inter- national business while


allowing the stronger domestic operations segment indepen- dence to build on its encouraging performance. In terms of the airline’s


cargo business, the current group executive responsible for the commercial and freight segment of Qantas, Rob Gur- ney, is to leave the carrier. CEO Alan Joyce will


remain in place above the two CEOs of Qantas International and Qantas Domestic. He said that the reorganisation will strengthen the group’s portfo- lio “and help deliver its strategic goals. “We have begun the pro- cess of restoring Qantas


International to a sustainable position (while) Qantas Domestic is strong and prof- itable. These measures give us


the right structure to address the challenges and opportuni- ties that we face,” he pointed out.


Arrivals & Departures


■ PETER GERBER (pic- tured) – currently responsible for finance and human resources at Lufthansa Cargo – becomes head of the human resources and infrastructure services division at Lufthansa German Airlines on 1 June. Plus, ANGELIKA KREIL, for- merly regional manager sales and handling in Hamburg, is becoming the cargo carrier’s Munich hub director. In another move, MICHAEL VORWERK, currently presi- dent of Cargo Network Services (CNS), the IATA subsidiary, is to take over as director sales development (Germany) on 1 August.


■ MARTIJN DE REGT will head up the new Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) han- dling operation at Stockholm Arlanda when it opens on 1 June.


■ Delta Air Lines has pro- moted JAZ GILL to regional cargo account manager – EMEIA (Europe, Middle East, India and Africa), based at London Heathrow.


■ BRAD TILDEN has been named Alaska Air Group CEO, succeeding BILL AYER, who remains chairman.


■ Cathay Pacific has named CHITTY CHEUNG as director corporate affairs. She will be taking up her new responsibil- ities “over the summer”, the carrier confirmed.


Lufthansa Cargo combats struggling Americas market


ACHIM Martinka, vice presi- dent the Americas for Lufthansa Cargo, says that the carrier has experienced a soft- ening in the market there. Traffic through the US is


down, as it is on the Brazil sec- tor, he noted. The strength of the Brazilian currency, the real, has certainly affected exports, while new cargo capacity


introduced into the Latin American market by many freight carriers has had an impact, he pointed out. Nevertheless, Lufthansa has


expanded aggressively in the Americas. For example, over the course of the last 12 months, it has added six new stations across the Americas – two of them, Montevideo and


Detroit, served by freighters. The loss of night flights out


of Frankfurt has been “a major headache for us”, Martinka said – and, although only 2-3 percent of Lufthansa Cargo’s business in the Americas has been lost, that is high-value express traffic and its loss means a significant revenue drop, he confirmed.


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