top air job
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Ex-TAA man gets PNG’s top air job
Gerald Fallscheer, 46, a former TAA engineering executive, is the new general manager of Papua New Guinea’s national airline, Air Niugini. He has been with Air Nuigini for 18 months, first as its engineering manager and more recently as assistant general manager (op erations).
Mr Fallscheer, who was born in Israel, is an Australian who started his career in Melbourne in 1949 as an aircraft main tenance apprentice with TAA.
He worked with TAA for 21 years before joining the
Department of Transport in
Melbourne in the civil aviation airworthiness section.
Mr Fallscheer’s appoint ment was announced in Port
Moresby on May 31 by trans
port minister Paias Wingti. He was chosen from a short list of four. The other three appli cants were from Qantas, Ansett and British Airways.