Christof Spath appointed as new Senior VP and Head of Maintenance EMEA & Asia

Organized by three main lines of business: completions, aircraft services and maintenance, Jet Aviation will move to a more efficient and effective structure to offer its customers the full power of the company's global service network.

"Jet Aviation's tremendous global growth during the past couple of years, with new start-ups and joint ventures being announced worldwide, has led us to realign our organizational structure for the EMEA & Asia region,"

says André Wall, Jet Aviation's COO for EMEA & Asia.

Wall adds, "The new structure will now be in alignment with our US organization which will help us to more easily integrate new ventures and increase the power of our global service network. Equally important, it will allow us to continue to provide our customers with our global standards of excellence and the highest possible service delivery no matter which Jet Aviation location around the world they go to."

The completions line of business will be led by Norbert Marx who also will continue in his role as general manager of Jet Aviation Basel. Jürg Reuthinger, who has been responsible for the aircraft management division in EMEA & Asia since 1999, will be in charge of the newly formed aircraft services, which include aircraft management and charter. Responsible for all MRO operations within the EMEA & Asia organization will be Christof Spath, who is based in Basel and recently was appointed as senior vice president and head of maintenance for EMEA & Asia. All heads of the newly created lines of business organization will be reporting directly to André Wall.

"I am excited to work with the new team and also welcome Christof Spath on board our growing organization," says Wall.

Christof Spath joined Jet Aviation effective July 1, 2008 from an aerospace company where he served as Executive Vice President 'Aircraft Services' and was a Member of the Executive Board. During his career he also worked at PFW Aerospace in Speyer, Germany as Head of 'Strategy and Corporate Development' and then as a Member of the Board of Directors responsible for the Division 'Sales and Program Management'.

Jet Aviation was founded in Switzerland in 1967 and is one of the leading business aviation services companies in the world. Close to 5,600 employees cater to client needs from 25 airport facilities throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia and North and South America. The company provides maintenance, completions and refurbishment, engineering, fixed base operations, along with aircraft management, charter services, aircraft sales and personnel services. Jet Aviation's European and U.S. aircraft management and charter divisions jointly operate a fleet of more than 200 aircraft and provided over 65,000 hours in global flight operations in 2007.