Travel Industry Veteran to Retires From Travelport

 

Coggin

This August, Robert Coggin, Vice Chairman of Travelport's GDS operations, will retire. For the past 10 years, Coggin has been an advisor and key ambassador for Travelport across the travel industry, providing guidance and assisting in the management of the company’s relationships with all senior level airline executives and other supplier partners.  His last official engagement for Travelport will be in August 2011, at the Global Business Travel Association convention in Denver, Colorado.

Prior to Travelport’s acquisition of Worldspan in August 2007, Cogginwas Vice Chairman of Galileo and, previous to this, he was Vice Chairman of Travelport Airline Services, responsible for supporting a number of strategic initiatives.  He joined Travelport in 2002, following 42 years with Delta Air Lines.
 
Gordon Wilson, President and CEO of Travelport said: “There are very few people who have not only experienced the changes seen in the airline industry in the past 50 years but have also been instrumental in creating a number of them as Bob Coggin.  He was involved in the creation of Worldspan, was the architect for much of Delta’s international route expansion in the late eighties and nineties and was a key player in the early days of online travel. Travelport has been privileged to tap into the vast industry knowledge, insight, advice and contacts that Bob has amassed."

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