Mr. Prince sold the company's aviation division, Presidential Airways, to the AAR Corporation in March.
In his civilian life he works in GE's aviation division.
World Fuel Services, Miami, named Keiler, Farmington, Conn., to handle the marketing and advertising duties for its business aviation division.
Gen. Anatoly Zhikharev, chief of staff for Russia's long-distance aviation division, told reporters that either option would be practical.
But Boeing officials have said that the commercial aviation division has limited growth potential and is dependent on economic cycles.
Karen McClellan, vice president of the aviation division for the Institute for International Research, offers some encouragement for Delta's boss.
Revenue fell slightly in the company's large aviation division, which builds aircraft engines, but profit surged 18%.
G.E.'s aviation division, Mr. Ruh said, developed a program this year, called "My Engines," for monitoring the performance and health of jet engines in use.
For many airlines, it is simply too expensive to buy and maintain engines so, increasingly, they are leased to airlines by banks such as RBS, which has an aviation division, aviation finance companies, and manufacturers which offer lifetime-maintenance programmes.
In the late 1930's, Brewster's aviation division built the Brewster Buffalo, a carrier-based monoplane that saw service at the Battle of Midway.
The company said the jobs would go from its aviation division, which makes the engines for Boeing 787 Dreamliners and Airbus A350s.
