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BUSINESS BUZZ

PEOPLE
JBT AeroTech Announces
Ahlstrom's Retirement,
Appoints Moore President of
Airport Services

Check offers an innovative solution
to digitally transform and automate
dangerous goods acceptance checks,
enabling us to ensure the highest level
of safety, compliance and efficiency
throughout the handling process, "
said Stewart Angus, dnata's divisional
senior vice president for international
airport operations. " In addition, the
platform will help us access and effectively manage valuable data which will
support us in further optimizing our
operations.
" dnata's decision to adopt IATA's DG
AutoCheck is great news for their customers and the cargo industry. It reinforces
dnata's commitment to operating with
the highest levels of safety and efficiency,
particularly in relation to the carriage of
dangerous goods, " added Muhammad Al
Bakri, IATA's regional vice president for
Africa and the Middle East.
DG AutoCheck is a digital solution
that facilitates the acceptance of Dangerous Goods by checking the compliance of the Shipper's Declaration
for Dangerous Goods (DGD) against
all relevant rules and regulations contained in the IATA Dangerous Goods
Regulations (DGR). Optical character
recognition technology transforms the
paper DGD into electronic data. DG
AutoCheck can also receive electronic
Shipper's Declaration for Dangerous
Goods (e-DGD). This data is then processed and verified automatically using
the digital version of the DGR.

6 GROUND SUPPORT WORLDWIDE

JBT officials announced the upcoming
retirement of Brent Ahlstrom, president
of airport services, planned for the 2nd
Quarter of 2021.
With Ahlstrom's planned retirement, Frank Moore, Jetway Systems
VP of gate equipment, has been
appointed president of airport services
effective March 1.
After March 1, Ahlstrom will continue to provide transition support to
Moore and the entire airport services
team, reporting to David Burdakin,
EVP and president, AeroTech, until his
retirement in May. Brian DeRoche and
the Jetway team will be working on the
transition of Moore's responsibilities
during this period as well.

Swissport Appoints Brady
President and CEO

The board of directors of Swissport
International AG appointed Warwick
Brady as the company's new president
and CEO. He will replace Christoph
Mueller, who
assumed the CEO
role ad-interim
after he was
appointed to the
board of directors
of Swissport in
December of last year.
Brady will also join the board of directors
of the company.
Brady brings a wealth of international management experience including senior roles in Europe, India and
Asia. His previous roles include the
posts as CEO of Mandala Airlines in
Indonesia, chief operating officer at Air
Deccan/Kingfisher in India and deputy
operations director at Ryanair plc.
" With his industry experience and a
proven track record in organizational
transformation, digitalization and

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operational turnarounds, Warwick is
the ideal CEO to steer Swissport safely,
and drive it with real ambition, as the
world and the aviation sector emerge
from the COVID-19 pandemic, " said
David Siegel, interim chairman of the
board of directors of Swissport International AG. " We expect the market
recovery to present us with some
challenges but also with significant
strategic opportunities. I am confident
that Warwick as CEO and Christoph
as our future chairman will take Swissport to the next level and position the
company as the first-choice partner for
airlines globally. "
" I am delighted to see Warwick join
and head up our executive team and
look forward to working with him to
bring out the best in our company, "
Mueller added. " At Swissport, we have
started to work on transforming the
company into a more efficient, agile
and digitally savvy organization. At
EasyJet, Warwick was instrumental in several successful initiatives
aimed at doing just that, and he will
play a key role in driving Swissport's
transformation. "
" I am excited, and honored to
be asked to lead Swissport in such
unprecedented times, " Brady said.
" There is some hard work ahead, but
the potential of Swissport and the
medium-term market outlook will certainly make this an exciting journey. "

IATA's Chief Economist to
Retire

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced that its chief
economist, Brian Pearce, will retire from
the organization in July 2021. A recruitment process has been launched to find a
successor in time for a smooth transition.
Pearce joined IATA in 2004.
Since then, he has built IATA's evidence-based economic analysis capabilities into the most authoritative
source of insight on aviation's global
performance. He also serves on the
association's strategic leadership team.

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