The selection of Pieter Bouw to head the airline, a merger of Swissair and its former regional subsidiary, Crossair, pushed aside Crossair's founder, Moritz Suter.
In 1986 he became a partner in a small company called ABH and was temporarily appointed LAA's head of airline security.
With a favourable wind, a new airliner's engines can be idled more than 150km from an airport for a gliding descent to the runway.A single such "green approach", as it is known, saves about 100kg of fuel, says Torbjorn Henriksen, head of airline negotiations at Avinor, the operator of Norway's 19 commercial airports.
He recounts how Seddik Belyamani, the Moroccan-born former head of airline sales for Boeing, nicknamed "the $30 billion man", once woke up the firm's chief executive, Alan Mulally, in the dead of night to impress a customer who was backing off a purchase.
Megrahi maintains that his only involvement with the JSO came during his 12-month tenure as head of airline security when he was seconded to the organisation to oversee the training of some of its personnel for security positions within the airline.
In 2011 the list was headed by airline pilots, fire-fighters and taxi drivers.
It is a rarity in Latin America, "the one region in the world where state-backed carriers have faded out of existence to be replaced by or reborn as fully private airlines," says Alex Dichter, head of the airline practice of McKinsey, a firm of consultants.
Mr. Tyler, the head of the airline association, conceded that some airlines that had cut capacity in recent years might be able to make money from the system.
Michael Bishop, former airline head: £335,000 Was one of the country's first openly gay senior executives when he headed BMI.
Mr. Tyler, the head of the airline association, said Europe's decision to unilaterally introduce its system had already pushed the I.C.A.O. to take a more urgent approach.
