Air New Zealand has appointed Gary Kershaw as the airline's new sales manager for UK and Ireland responsible for both leisure and corporate sales.
Gary has been the Air New Zealand Europe sales manager responsible for all the airline's offline continental European markets since 2005. Prior to this he was with US Airways for six years as manager for global offline sales and also has airline operations experience. He replaces Richard Tywnam who is now with operator Travelmood.
Also joining the Air New Zealand sales team is Rachel Nicholson who has been appointed to a newly created senior leisure account manager role working alongside Duncan Ivett, senior groups account manager, Brad Flynn,leisure account manager and Chris Allison who has been promoted corporate account manager.
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