Mohamed El-Borai graduated with a Ph.D. in Computational Aerodynamics from the UK after completing his apprenticeship with Hawker Siddeley Aviation (Hatfield). German born, Egyptian, he then joined the Boeing Commercial Airplane Co. in Seattle in 1980. In 1982 he joined Saudi Arabian Airlines in Jeddah to set up the Flight Operations Performance Engineering department and subsequently headed the Flight Operations Automation. Five years later, in 1987, having held various senior positions in Flight Operations he left to join Airbus Industrie. Starting as Regional Manager Middle East and Africa of Airbus Industrie’s Product Support Division he reached the position of Vice-President Customer Support Services in charge of both the Product Support and Training. In 2001 he founded Reliance Aerospace Solutions and while setting up the company, Mohamed joined Thomas Cook AG. as V.P. Airline Operations and subsequently was appointed Managing Director of the UK Charter Airline JMC (now Thomas Cook Airlines UK) and Board Member of the Thomas Cook UK Executive Board. He completed a successful turnaround of the airline during the difficult period between 2001 and 2002. From 2002 onwards he has concentrated on developing Reliance Aerospace Solutions where the income tripled in the first five years.
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