{"id":17179,"date":"2020-12-15T13:58:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T13:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=17179"},"modified":"2020-12-15T13:58:01","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T13:58:01","slug":"canadas-flair-airlines-announces-garth-lund-as-chief-commercial-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/international-news\/canadas-flair-airlines-announces-garth-lund-as-chief-commercial-officer\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s Flair Airlines Announces Garth Lund as Chief Commercial Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Flair Airlines announces the appointment of Mr. Garth Lund\nas Chief Commercial Officer. A world-class Ultra Low-Cost Carrier (ULCC)\nexecutive, Mr. Lund will join Flair from Europe\u2019s highest-performing airline,\nWizz Air. At Wizz Air, Mr. Lund was most recently the Head of Financial\nPlanning and Controlling, with previous roles including Head of Pricing and\nRevenue Management and Head of Network Development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Flair Airlines is Canada\u2019s only true ULCC with clear growth\nambitions within domestic Canada and cross-border. The appointment of Mr. Lund\ncontinues the strengthening of the executive team which began in October with\nthe appointment of a new CEO, Stephen Jones, also from Wizz Air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Chief Commercial Officer, Garth will be responsible for\nall of Flair Airlines commercial functions including network planning,\nscheduling, pricing and revenue management, ancillary revenue, sales and\ndistribution, mobile and web channels, marketing, branding, customer\nexperience, and communications. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am thrilled to have been able to attract a world class\ntalent such as Garth to join the Flair Airlines team,&#8221; said Mr. Jones.\n\u201cGarth\u2019s experience at the forefront of the extremely competitive European ULCC\nmarket will ensure that we bring the best possible products and pricing to\nCanadian customers, which will underpin Flair Airline\u2019s rapid growth in this\nmarket.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Lund stated, \u201cI am very excited to join Flair Airlines\nat the beginning of its growth journey. Canadian customers have long been\ndenied the benefits of a real ULCC and Flair Airlines has a compelling mission\nto fill this gap. I look forward to being a part of helping Flair Airlines\nreach its full potential.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flair Airlines announces the appointment of Mr. Garth Lund as Chief Commercial Officer. A world-class Ultra Low-Cost Carrier (ULCC) executive, Mr. Lund will join Flair from Europe\u2019s highest-performing airline, Wizz Air. At Wizz Air, Mr. Lund was most recently the Head of Financial Planning and Controlling, with previous roles including Head of Pricing and Revenue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Flair-Airlinesedit.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17181,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17179\/revisions\/17181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}