You can’t hold these ladies down! Flight Centre has restructured its wholesale division including management and placed a quarter of female talent at the top.
Allisa O’Connell – who formerly headed up Infinity Holidays – will now oversee all the Australian wholesale businesses including Infinity Holidays, Infinity Cruise, Infinity Rail and Quickbeds.
Allisa has been working with Flight Centre since 1988 and has progressed from front line to Ticket Centre Business to EGM of Australia to Infinity Nation Leader.
Sandra Cavallin has been appointed to head up Infinity Holidays in Australia.
She also started out a front line consultant in Melbourne and has since won numerous sales awards and rose to management positions such as retail area leader.
Pictured from left to right: Megan Lowe, Allisa O’Connell, Heike Binting, Sandra Cavallin.
In 2006 she commenced work at Infinity and has been Area Leader for Infinity Victoria and South Australia until now when she will start her transition to the Infinity Leader role over the coming months.
She will relocate from Melbourne to Brisbane in January 2015 when she’ll take the reins full time.
Meanwhile, Heike Binting has stepped into the head role at Quickbeds with some 25 years of experience behind her.
She’s held roles such as global human resources manager and nation leader of learning and development.
Heike also started her career with Flight Centre as a front line travel consultant and opened one of the first corporate traveller businesses.
Megan Lowe is yet another front line consultant who made her way up to team leader then area leader of Infinity Queensland to now become business leader of Infinity Cruise and Rail.
Megan brings her experience of an established Flight Centre business to the emerging Cruise and Rail brands and these businesses have experienced exponential growth under her guidance.
Congratulations ladies!
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