Emirates announced several changes to its commercial organization,

including the promotion of executive vice president of passenger sales worldwide Thierry Antinori to executive vice president and chief commercial officer. Regional manager of commercial operations Paul Starrs has taken on the role of senior vice president of global sales. Richard Jewsbury shifted to divisional senior vice president of revenue optimization and distribution from his role as senior vice president commercial for Europe  and the Russian Federation. Jewsbury adopted the role held by Nabil Sultan, who was appointed Emirates SkyCargo divisional senior vice president. Emirates named senior vice president of global sales Hubert Frach divisional senior vice president of commercial operations West, while Australia vice president Barry Brown adopted a new role of divisional senior vice president of commercial operations East. Emirates made other senior appointments in the areas of operations, revenue management and cargo.