Flight Centre Travel Group (FLT) has restructured its global leadership team in a move it says is designed to “proactively target new opportunities across its three core FCTG business units”.
The restructure will see leisure and supply chief executive officer (CEO), Melanie Waters-Ryan, focus solely on her role as supply CEO as the post-pandemic travel rebound gains momentum.
Ms Waters-Ryan will be responsible for supplier (air, land and seas) relationships and commercial arrangements along with product procurement and delivery and the company’s wholesale business.
She will also play a key role in the ongoing development and integration of the Dubai based TPConnects (TPC) business, which has been earmarked as a crucial element in FLT’s global supply strategy.
“The supply and distribution areas of travel are rapidly evolving and are critical to our long-term success,” Ms Waters-Ryan said.
“The disruption that is taking place in this space is creating opportunities and we are well placed to benefit. I look forward to focusing on the emerging opportunities we see in supply and working closely with the leisure and corporate businesses to deliver new and improved products to our people and customers and increased sales to our travel industry partners.”
Meanwhile, FLT’s current Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) managing director (MD), James Kavanagh, will become the company’s global leisure CEO, with Chris Galanty continuing as global corporate CEO.
“I am excited by the challenge of leading our large and diverse leisure business, which spans multiple brands and multiple channels and is this year celebrating its 40th birthday,” Mr Kavanagh said.
“The building blocks are in place for further success in the future.”
Mr Kavanagh, Ms Waters-Ryan and Mr Galanty will all continue to report to the company’s global CEO and managing director, Skroo Turner.
Speaking about the changes, Mr Turner said, “This is an important step in our business’s evolution and means we will now have dedicated CEOs responsible for each of our three business divisions – corporate travel, leisure travel and supply.
“Having three senior executives focussed solely on these key areas will help ensure we successfully execute our growth strategies and capitalise on opportunities across all areas of the business during the post-pandemic recovery, which is now well and truly underway.
“Mel has been at the forefront of our evolution and success in the product and distribution spaces and her proven expertise and innovative thinking will prove invaluable in the future.
“James has been heavily involved in the design and transformation of our leisure business over the past two years and we are excited by the contribution he will make as travel resumes. We are already starting to see very positive signs of recovery in the leisure sector as restrictions are lifted and as the world reopens, which is happening now at pace,” Mr Turner said.
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