 |
Alison McAfee, senior director of corporate communications for Hawaiian Airlines for the past four years, has taken the managing director-communications job at Airlines for America.
McAfee piloted global media relations and internal communications for HA for her perch in Honolulu.
From 2006 to 2013, McAfee worked at JetBlue Airways in New York as spokesperson and external communications manager focused on marketing, branding and sales functions.
At Washington-based A4A, she will report to Vaughn Jennings, VP-communications.
McAfee also has worked outside the airlines business. She was a publicist for NBC Sports and did a three-year stint at Edelman Southwest representing clients such as Whole Foods Market and Texas Tourism
A4A represents the commercial aviation sector, which it says employs more than 10M US jobs and stimulates $1.5T in economic activity.
Business leaders will face challenges in the upcoming year, some of which will come as a complete surprise, or beyond anyone's imagination.
Teneo has hired Philipp Grontzki, who is a 20-year veteran of corporate communications and financial journalism, as a managing director in its strategy and communications group.
Rowan Benecke, who co-founded Zeno Group and helmed Burson-Marsteller's tech practice, has joined McKinsey & Co as director of communications for North America.
BCW has named Golin's Matt Coldagelli EVP and leader of its corporate affairs practice in Chicago.
Abby Bailey, who headed corporate communications for Fedex in its Middle East, India and Africa region, has joined Teneo as managing director in Dubai.
Have a comment? Send it to 
No comments have been submitted for this story yet.