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Air New Zealand names new UK sales boss
Gary Kershaw has become Air New Zealand’s sales manager for UK and Ireland, responsible for both leisure and corporate sales.
He moves from being the carrier’s Europe sales manager, responsible for offline continental European markets, since 2005 and replaces Richard Tywnam who has moved to operator Travelmood.
Kershaw was previously with US Airways for six years as manager for global offline sales.
Also joining the Air New Zealand sales team is Rachel Nicholson, who has been appointed to a newly-created senior leisure account manager role.
She will work alongside Duncan Ivett, senior groups account manager; Brad Flynn, leisure account manager and Chris Allison, who has been promoted to corporate account manager.
by Phil Davies
Phil Davies
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