Airways New Zealand welcomes new board director

Experienced director and business leader Judy Kirk ONZM has joined the Board of Airways New Zealand, the air navigation service provider, effective 1 January 2016.

Kirk has extensive directorship experience in the areas of business and fundraising. She is currently Chair of Lotto NZ, Deputy Chair of Metservice NZ, director of JMK Consulting, and a member of the Institute of Directors. Kirk also served as President of the New Zealand National Party for seven years. She was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2011 for services to the community.

Airways Board Chair Susan Paterson announced this appointment today. “We’re delighted to have a director with Judy’s experience joining our Board. Like Airways, Metservice has been successful in growing international revenue from IP developed in New Zealand. Judy is highly respected, with very good networks in New Zealand, and we look forward to working with her for the benefit of Airways,” Ms Paterson says.

For more information please contact:

Emily Davies
Head of Public Affairs
Airways New Zealand
Mobile: +64 21 815 149 
Email: communications@airways.co.nz

About Airways New Zealand

Airways New Zealand is a world-leading commercial Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP), and operates in New Zealand as a State-Owned Enterprise (SOE). We look after key aviation infrastructure around New Zealand and manage the more than 1 million traffic movements per year into and around New Zealand’s 30 million sq km of airspace.

Airways provides air traffic control and engineering training, and has delivered air traffic management, Flightyield revenue management solutions, navigation services and consultancy in more than 65 countries.

For more information about Airways please visit www.airways.co.nz