Monarch has appointed a former vice-president of Emirates Airline, Conrad Clifford, as its new group chief executive officer.
Clifford has almost 30 years’ industry experience, including holding senior positions at Cathay Pacific Airways and Virgin Atlantic Airways, and more recently with Virgin Nigeria Airways, which he helped to set up, and Emirates Airline, where he was vice-president UK and Ireland.
He will join Monarch on December 1 2010.
Monarch executive chairman Iain Rawlinson said: "We are delighted that Conrad has agreed to take up this appointment, which completes our senior management team.
"This appointment concludes the initial stage of the ongoing programme of transformation and renewal of the Monarch Group that has been underway since the beginning of this year."
By Linsey McNeill
