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Changing the guard -

Couple of aviation media outlets reported on the new CEO appointment at the RAAA. This (presumably from Denise) courtesy AvBiz off the Yaffa:

Mike Higgins, new CEO of RAAA


Higgins appointed new CEO of RAAA
11 Dec 2015

Mike Higgins has been appointed chief executive of the Regional Aviation Association of Australia (RAAA)replacing long-serving Paul Tyrrell.

RAAA chairman, Jim Davis said today that Higgins brings to the organisation “a tremendous wealth of expertise” with his experience as a licensed aircraft maintenance engineer, a former commercial pilot, maintenance organisation manager and airline general manager, one of the architects of regional aviation security regulations, drug and alcohol management plans and, recently, a senior manager with CASA.

“His breadth of experience will serve RAAA members well in many areas, but it will be particularly valuable as we work with the government and the regulator to solve the huge problems caused by recently introduced legislation and participate in the development of new regulations”, said Davis.

 Paul Tyrrell resigned from the association to pursue a new, as yet undisclosed venture.

“Over the last seven and-a-half-years Paul demonstrated a highly professional and objective approach in his dealings with politicians, various government agencies and the media and was highly regarded, being publicly congratulated by the Deputy Prime Minister at the last RAAA convention,” said Davis

There was also this comment from Hitch in close to his last 'LMH' for the year:

The Regional Aviation Association of Australia (RAAA) has appointed Mike Higgins as their new CEO, replacing Paul Tyrrell, who resigned some weeks ago. Mike is a LAME, former CPL, MRO manager and has managed an airline. Most curiously, he was a senior manager with CASA, and the man behind the drug and alcohol testing scheme. That means he brings to the RAAA a lot of industry smarts, including how to deal with Canberra and Aviation House in particular. As the RAAA CEO, he'll also be their point man with The Australian Aviation Associations Forum (TAAAF), giving TAAAF some formidable artillery when firing in concert with Greg Russell.

Hmm...some dots just started appearing on the horizon...

MTF...P2