Business Insider: Mike Tod lines up at CBA, BNZ boss Angela Mentis stumbles, ANZ dodges settlement
7 May, 2021 05:00 PM
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Mike Tod has already been tipped as a strong contender to become the bank s new head of corporate affairs.
The former Air NZ executive has just lost his new boss, Priscilla Brown, who is finishing up at the end of May and heading back to the US.
That s led to speculation Tod could take over her role as group executive of marketing and corporate affairs, although the Sydney Morning Herald noted he is expected to face competition from long-standing CBA executive and current chief marketing officer Monique Macleod.
Air New Zealand chief digital officer Jennifer Sepull joins exiting colleagues
14 Mar, 2021 08:13 PM
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Air NZ digital chief Jennifer Sepull started at the airline in May, 2019. Photo / Supplied
Aviation, tourism and energy writer for the NZ Heraldgrant.bradley@nzherald.co.nz@gbradleynz
The upheaval of Air New Zealand s executive continues with chief digital officer Jennifer Sepull leaving the airline this week.
She has been at the airline for two years and joins seven other executives who have left or during the past 12 months or are leaving this year. Staff were told today she had been considering a move from the airline but after experiencing the loss of family members in the United States she had brought the move forward.
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Air New Zealand is closing in on 50% of its pre-pandemic passenger numbers. Photo: Airbus
In January 2021, the Air New Zealand Group carried 583,000 passengers. That’s 43.8% of the number of passengers the airline flew the previous January. In the financial year to the end of January 2021, Air New Zealand has carried 4,587,000 passengers. Over the same period across 2019/20, Air New Zealand flew 10,370,000 passengers.
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By Cirium2021-02-16T10:32:00+00:00
New Zealand’s government has confirmed its commitment to retain a majority stake in flag carrier Air New Zealand following a proposed equity capital raise.
In a 12 February letter to the airline’s chairman Therese Walsh, posted the same day to New Zealand’s Exchange (NZX), the country’s deputy prime minister and minister of finance Grant Robertson confirms the government’s “longstanding commitment to maintaining a majority shareholding in Air New Zealand given the critical role that the airline has in New Zealand’s economy and society”.
Source: Air New Zealand
Air New Zealand jets parked at Auckland airport