Carrie Hurihanganui will be Air New Zealand's chief ground operations officer.
Former Air New Zealand manager Carrie Hurihanganui is returning to the airline, joining the executive team as chief ground operations officer.
Most recently she has been at the National Australia Bank as executive general manager, customer experience.
She will join the airline's 10-member executive team toward the end of next
month ahead of the departure of chief operations officer Bruce Parton.
The structure of the operations function is being split into two parts – one focused on ground operations to be led by Hurihanganui and the other focused on air operations led by chief air operations and people safety officer John Whittaker.
Hurihanganui joined NAB last year after 18 years with Air New Zealand. She began her career as a flight attendant in 1999 while she studied for her Bachelor of Business Management degree.
