Jack Evans, CEO Of Total Airport Services Is The New NATA
Chairman
National Air Transportation Association (NATA) President James
K. Coyne announced the new leadership of the association's Airline
Services Council (ASC). The NATA formed the Airline Services
Council in 2002 to further the interests of companies providing
services to scheduled air carrier as their primary business.
Jack Evans, CEO of Total Airport Services, Inc. (TAS), replaces
Fernando (Fred) DiBenedetto as the NATA ASC chairman. Evans
previously served as the council's vice chairman prior to taking
the chairman's position. Evans formed TAS in November 2004 with a
single contract and nine employees in San Francisco, California.
Within two years, the company had grown to 200 employees and five
operating locations including Hartford, Connecticut; Columbus,
Ohio; Huntsville, Alabama; Chicago, Illinois; and Newark, New
Jersey.
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DiBenedetto, vice president, business development at Fortbrand
Services, Inc., concludes his tenure as chairman of the NATA
Airline Services Council after three years. DiBenedetto has been
involved in the airline services industry for more than 36 years,
including serving as president and COO of Servisair/GlobeGround, a
leading, global provider of a full range of services to airlines
and airports, where he was responsible for the delivery of ground
handling services to over 700 customers at 145 airports with annual
revenues of one billion dollars. DiBenedetto led the council in
tackling a number of critical issues in recent years including
independent cargo handling participation in the TSA's Certified
Cargo Screening Program, highlighting the importance of ground
handling services to the commercial airport community and doubling
membership within the NATA ASC.
"Fred has been a true champion of the airline services
community, advocating for the clear business and safety advantages
that the ground handling sector provides to the commercial airline
industry," stated Coyne. "Fred's devotion to the NATA ASC was seen
in many, many ways, including his ability to attract new members
that resulted in the more than doubling of the council's membership
over the last two years."
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"We are quite fortunate to have had one great chairman
with Fred, followed by another with Jack, on the council," Coyne
said. "Jack has laid out an aggressive agenda for the council to
tackle over the next two years, and we at NATA look forward to
working with him to achieve these goals."
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