FCm Travel Solutions last month announced the appointment of Rob Flint as global brand leader, the top post for the company's global corporate travel management operations, effective April 6. As FCm's new corporate travel chief, Flint is responsible for global operations, sales and account management and management of the global partner network.
Flint replaces Anthony Grigson, who served in the equivalent spot as global executive general manager for nearly five years. He no longer is with FCm.
Flint has been with FCm's parent company Flight Centre Limited for 18 years, most recently serving as executive general manager for its Australian operations in Victoria and Tasmania. Flint will be based at FCm's Brisbane, Australia, global headquarters.
In February, Flight Centre announced plans for a new growth strategy in the U.S. corporate travel market that included relocating management from Vancouver to Chicago. FCm's U.S. operations previously were run as a division within Flight Centre's Canadian operations, where president of FCm North America Gregory Lording was based. Lording became president last year following the abrupt departure of previous president Dan O'Brien
(BTNonline, July 21, 2008).Additionally, Flight Centre in February announced it would open a brand for smaller corporate accounts—Liberty Business Travel—as part of its Liberty Travel leisure shop operations and restructure its California leisure business into a corporate travel operation. In January 2008, Flight Centre acquired U.S. leisure retail network Liberty Travel for $135 million.