Mandala appoints Warwick Brady as Managing Director and CEO
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Mandala Airlines today that Warwick Brady has been named the airlines new Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer. Brady brings to Mandala a wealth of world class airline experience, including airline management in emerging aviation markets, such as in the competitive Indian and Eastern European markets. Brady will join Mandala on July 1, 2007.
Diono Nurjadin, Mandala’s Chairman, stated “the addition of Warwick to our team will provide Mandala with an accomplished and battle-tested leader as we modernise operations and expand our reach in the Indonesian travel market.”
For the past two years Brady, 42, has served as Chief Operating Officer of Air Deccan, India’s second largest airline and largest LCC. Before joining Deccan, Brady held several senior management positions at Ryanair, Europe’s largest LCC.
Of his new opportunity at Mandala, Brady stated, “Indonesia, the third fastest growing aviation market after India and China, offers tremendous opportunity for a modern, well managed, new generation, low fares airline.”
Brady earned an MBA and a Diploma in Business Management from Henley Management College. He also holds an Airline Transport Pilots License.
In 2006, Mandala was acquired by Cardig International (51%) and Indigo Partners (49%). The owners have undertaken an aggressive growth plan designed to modernize the airline’s fleet and improve all aspects of operations including safety compliance, flight operations, and engineering and management systems. Mandala has committed to a program for replacing the airline’s existing fleet with Airbus A320 family aircraft and recently entered into a long-term maintenance agreement for the Airbus fleet with Singapore Airlines Engineering Company (SIAEC).
With a current fleet of nine aircraft, Mandala Airlines currently serves 18 destinations.
Date posted: 06-Jun-07
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