Cirium Adds Former Airline C-Suite Leaders to Airline and Airport On-Time Performance Board

Cirium, the aviation analytics agency, has introduced that former Spirit Airlines CEO, Ben Baldanza and former Indigo CCO, Willy Boulter have joined the Cirium On-Time Performance (OTP) Advisory Board.

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Ben Baldanza, former Spirit Airlines CEO and Willy Boulter, former IndiGo CCO be part of the Cirium airline and airport On-Time Performance Advisory Board. (Graphic: Business Wire)

Cirium is the primary and solely firm that has an OTP Advisory Board within the aviation trade. The Board includes a collaborative workforce of exterior advisors who help Cirium’s OTP Program and stories international Annual and Monthly airline and airport on-time analyses.

“We are delighted to welcome Ben and Willy to the Cirium OTP Advisory Board. Together they bring nearly 80 years of aviation experience to the Board, which will be invaluable for Cirium’s airline and airport OTP Program. They will provide key focus and direction on the big-picture initiatives,” stated Jeremy Bowen, CEO at Cirium.

Ben Baldanza is a transformational chief within the US airline trade. He was president and CEO for Spirit Airlines and modified that airline into an ultra-low-cost-airline service. Prior to Spirit he held govt roles with US Airways, Continental Airlines and TACA Airlines.

In addition to the Cirium OTP Board, Baldanza presently serves on the Board of Directors for JetBlue Airways, Six Flags Entertainment and a number of non-public corporations. He additionally co-hosts a weekly podcast that’s now within the high 1% of all podcasts by weekly listeners. Baldanza has additionally been twice named as one of many trade’s 25 Most Influential Leaders.

Baldanza stated: “Airline and airport operational performance is increasingly important as the industry recovers from the pandemic and contends with rising challenges such as forecasting travel demand. Cirium’s OTP Program measures the carriers’ and airports’ operational efficiencies and is the standard for on-time arrival and departure benchmarking.”

Willy Boulter has 40 years’ expertise within the airline trade, most not too long ago as CCO at India’s largest airline IndiGo. Prior to IndiGo, Boulter was CCO within the Emirates-sponsored workforce that rotated TAAG Angola Airlines. He held govt roles at Gulf Air, Etihad Airways, low-cost service Sky Express, Virgin Atlantic and Cathay Pacific. Boulter additionally served within the British Army within the UK, Canada and Hong Kong and is a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society.

Boulter stated: “It’s a privilege to join the Cirium OTP Advisory Board to help steer an accurate analysis of airline and airport operations. The program has multiple benefits for the industry, not least enabling improved operational performance and tracking aircraft utilization aligned to sustainability targets.”

Baldanza and Boulter be part of Luis Felipe de Oliveira, Director General at ACI World and Henry H. Harteveldt, President – Travel Industry Analyst at Atmosphere Research Group on the Board.

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