For North American widebody airframe MROs, the market dynamics are changing, as vendors' focus shifts to the midsize Boeing 767 and Airbus A330 families and away from the 747, whose maintenance has evolved into a niche business.

Southwest's playbook to merge smaller carrier into operations

Francesco Caio Title: CEO, Avio Age: 55 Birthplace: Naples, Italy Education: Engineering degree from Milan Politecnico and MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France.

Diehl Aerosystems is still weighing a takeover of the 49% stake held by Thales in the Diehl Aircabin joint venture.

Indonesia’s largest privately owned airline, Lion Air, will establish an affiliate carrier in Malaysia

JFI Jets , New York, named bob Seidel CEO, succeeding Bill Cripe, who will take a sabbatical.

Southwest Airlines , Dallas, named Tammy Romo senior VP-finance and CFO.

Turkish Technic , Ankara and Istanbul, appointed Altan Buyukyilmaz executive VP-commercial affairs.