Thomson Airways’ MD promoted in new aviation line-up
TUI Travel has announced a new leadership team following a 100-day review of its five airlines, which are to be brought together under one umbrella.
Thomson Airways’ current MD Chris Browne will become chief operating officer of Aviation across the mainstream sector.
Browne will have four pan-European roles reporting directly to her – Engineering & Maintenance (Jason Mahoney), Flight Ops & Safety (John Murphy), Ground Ops & Services (Hans van de Velde) and Supplier Management & Procurement (Geert Somers).
John Murphy will also become managing director of Thomson Airways.
As previously announced, Henrik Homann has been appointed managing director of Aviation across the group’s mainstream sector.
Each airline managing director remains responsible for their respective airlines and will report to both Henrik and their respective source market MD’s.
Homann said: "This is a very exciting new chapter in TUI Travel’s growth plans. This new way of doing business will increase collaboration and best-practice sharing while delivering operational efficiencies across the whole Mainstream sector.
Alex Huber will continue as MD of TUIfly Nordic and will also take up the role of strategy & planning director for aviation across the Mainstream Sector.
Gunther Hofman will remain as MD of Jetairfly and take on the role of operational and process effectiveness director.
Tom Chandler will continue in his role as director of aircraft acquisition and finance reporting into the group CFO.
In addition to these roles, Christophe Todt will head up the transition office before becoming the aviation finance director and Isabelle Drolle will become the director of aviation IT and will report to Todt.
Drolle will continue in her role as CIO for TUIfly and also report to the Digital Transformation team led by the group CIO, Mittu Sridhara.
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