Ian Brun­ton is the new Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of Caribbean Air­lines Ltd (CAL). His ap­point­ment takes ef­fect from Oc­to­ber 15.

Arthur Lok Jack, chair­man of the CAL Board, made the an­nounce­ment yes­ter­day. Brun­ton takes over from Philip Saun­ders, who gave no­tice six months ago of his in­ten­tion to re­sign his po­si­tion to re­turn to the Unit­ed King­dom. Brun­ton start­ed his avi­a­tion ca­reer about 47 years ago in the British Roy­al Air Force.

He has held se­nior po­si­tions in the State Safe­ty Over­sight sys­tem. He was the first chair­man of the T&T Civ­il Avi­a­tion Au­thor­i­ty.

Brun­ton has been the ex­ec­u­tive vice-pres­i­dent and chief op­er­at­ing of­fi­cer of Caribbean Air­lines since the air­line's in­cep­tion in Jan­u­ary 2007. He is a qual­i­fied at­tor­ney, hav­ing at­tained Bach­e­lor and Mas­ter of Laws de­grees from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Lon­don. Brun­ton is al­so a mem­ber of the Char­tered In­sti­tute of Ar­bi­tra­tors. He is a for­mer board mem­ber of BWIA and a for­mer chair­man of the T&T Air­line Pi­lots' As­so­ci­a­tion (Tal­pa).