Simon Russell is MD of Eagle Aviation Consulting, and has 37 years experience in Airline/Airport business transformation and product/service innovation. He has worked across Asia-Pacific/Middle East to airlines, airports, government agencies, and investors.
He has led performance improvement projects in air transport in Asia-Pacific markets, Russia/CIS, Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. He has worked on projects in Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Cambodia, New Zealand, Mozambique, Russia, and the Pacific Islands for government, airports, airlines, and investors.
He held senior roles at Air New Zealand in a 26 year career, in airport service delivery, airport labour planning, airline O&D network improvements, revenue management enhancements, and overall Group change programs and performance.He speaks fluent Portuguese, and medium level Spanish, with basic Russian and Indonesian. He is completing an MBA (2016-2017)