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EasyJet chief becomes a Dame
Easyjet chief executive Carolyn McCall has been made a Dame in the New Year Honours list for her services to the aviation industry.
McCall, who joined the airline in July 2010, helped it achieve record profits in 2012 and enter the FTSE 100 the following year.
In 2008 she was given the OBE for services to women in business in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List and was named Veuve Clicquot Business Woman of the Year.
This year she was asked by Prime Minister David Cameron to join his Business Advisory Group and was named business leader of the year at the National Business Awards.
Meanwhile, Dr Barry Humphreys, the former chairman of the British Air Transport Association (BATA), has also been honoured with a CBE in the list.
BATA chief executive Nathan Stower said: "I am delighted that Barry’s long and distinguished service to UK aviation in both the private and public sectors, as well as academia, has been recognised in this way.
"His contribution to the successful partial privatisation of NATS, the expansion of Virgin Atlantic, and the development of BATA, are just some of his most recent accomplishments over a career spanning more than 40 years.
"It is also fitting that his charitable work, including his support for Airlink (www.airlinkflight.org) and The Loomba Foundation (www.theloombafoundation.org), has been recognised, showing that aviation can be a force for good."
A CBE was awarded to Nicola Shaw, CEO of HighSpeed 1 and lately non-executive director of Aer Lingus, for her services to transport.
OBEs were awarded to Kevin Leslie Murphy, formerly chair of Excel London, for his services to business tourism, and to Marc Russell Owen, director of border force at London Heathrow, for services to border security and immigration policy development.
MBEs were handed to Jeffrey Brownhut for services to leisure and tourism industry in Northern Ireland, to Prof David Levin, founder of The Capital Hotel, for services to hospitality and youth training, and to Jeanette Ross Wilson at the British Holiday and Home Parks Association, for services to the holiday parks industry.
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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