Flight Directors appoint Simon King as Head of Digital Development and form a partnership with AeroCRS

Flight Directors has announced the appointment of Simon King as Head of Digital Development. Simon is a talented and experienced developer having previously worked for Avios Group (part of IAG), as a senior member of the development team where he led projects in collaboration with British Airways, Iberia and Aer Lingus.

Paul Argyle, Managing Director, said: “Signing up Simon is part of a larger strategic move to pivot Flight Directors firmly into being market leaders in the changing technology landscape of airline distribution. Simon’s wide experience in building technology solutions using some of the latest software will be invaluable to both Flight Directors and the clients of our new “CoTech by Flight Directors” product set.”

Simon added ”It’s great to be onboard such a forward-looking company. Whilst the travel industry emerges from an extremely challenging period, it is an amazing opportunity to participate in Flight Director’s expansion as the business continues to capitalise on new technology and digital platforms”.

In an associated development, Flight Directors has also signed a commercial partnership agreement with market-leading PSS (Passenger Service System) provider, AeroCRS.

The new AeroCRS product, to be marketed under the brand name “CoTech by Flight Directors”, will form an integral part of a world-class product set aimed at bringing the best technology solutions to the UK airline distribution market.

Meir Hadassi Turner, CEO & Founder of AeroCRS said that the partnership with Flight Directors will allow carriers to use AeroCRS as their hosting system while enjoying the proven services of Flight Directors, the strong relationship between the two companies with an agile development team gives airlines a proven end to end service"

About Flight Directors
Established in 1984, Flight Directors is engaged in all aspects of airline distribution. CoTech by Flight Directors is one of four product sets, which also includes GSA+, one of the UK’s leading airline General Sales Agency organisations, CaRes, an airline outsourcing contact centre solution and Consult by Flight Directors, which is a consultancy currently advising the UK CAA on repatriation contingency planning matters.