Former Qatar airways boss gets a new job at Kenya airways

 
Kenya Airways has appointed a former Qatar Airways executive as its commercial director.
 

Vincent Coste, who was hired on November 1, has worked in various senior roles for the Air France-KLM group for a decade and, prior to that, spent seven years at Air France before the two airlines merged.

His last engagement before joining Kenya Airways was at Qatar Airways where he worked as the carrier’s senior vice president for the Indian sub-continent for two years.

MrCoste is filling a position left vacant by Gerard Clarke who left the airline in October 2015 and was replaced by KQ’s strategy director Thomas Omondi in an acting capacity.

“MrCoste has joined KQ as the commercial director in charge of sales, network planning and revenue management functions,” the carrier told its employees in an internal memo.

The new director will also be in charge of ticket pricing, scouting for and entering into partnerships like code-sharing agreements, new product development as well as planning new routes among others.

In July, Kenya Airways picked Jan de Vegt as its new chief operating officer (COO) to replace Yves Guibert who left the airline amid a staff and company restructuring which began last year.