Garry Kingshott to be Jet Airways chief commercial officer

Garry Kingshott will supervise Jet Airways marketing, airport services and customer service

BY A CORRESPONDENT
7th January 2006

Jet Airways has announced the appointment of Garry Kingshott as the chief commercial officer of the company, in the wake of Peter Luethi leaving Jet Airways as its chief operating officer. Jet Airways, India's largest private sector airline said that it does not plan to fill in the position of COO soon.

As the Jet Airways chief commercial officer, Garry Kingshott, an Australian national, will report to Jet Airways CEO Wolfgang Prock-Schaeur. The vacuum emerged at the top end of Jet Airways with the retirement of its chief operating officer Peter Luethi, whose contract expires this April.

Mr Garry Kingshott has over a decade's experience in the aviation business. At Jet Airways, Garry Kingshott will supervise marketing and sales, commercial, airport services, and all areas of customer service.

Jet Airways has a large fleet 42 Boeing planes in the 737-400/700/800/900 series, three Airbus A340-300E planes and eight modern ATR 72-500 turboprops. Jet Airways claims that roughly 24,000 air travellers board its flights every day on its 290 flights to 48 locations.