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United
Airlines
has appointed Timothy Canavan as Vice President of Maintenance and Aircraft Appearance for United Services. In this role, Canavan will lead the company’s line maintenance and aircraft appearance
teams to improve the reliability, workability and interior cleanliness of United’s fleet.
"Tim’s strong background and extensive experience in maintenance will provide tremendous value as we work to improve our processes in the
face of escalating costs. His main focus will be on leading our maintenance team to safely deliver our customers a reliable aircraft, with a clean
and workable interior," said Joe Kolshak, senior vice president of Operations for United.
Canavan joins United from Delta
Air Lines, where he spent 22 years in a variety of leadership positions in maintenance and airport operations,
transforming a number of organizations and achieving immediate performance improvements. Most recently, Canavan led Delta’s worldwide
cabin appearance and ground support equipment operations, where he was responsible for the successful implementation of several new
initiatives, including programs that focused on employee ownership to improve cabin appearance, and large scale Lean improvements.
Canavan also led Delta's technical operations and quality division, where he was responsible for Lean
Implementation that transformed the
company's base, engine and component maintenance groups to continuously identify and remove waste while improving quality and customer
value.
Canavan
is based at United’s operations center in suburban Chicago. He reports to
Kolshak.
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