Dick is an airline expert with over 18 years experience within operations, commercial and finance across various Scandinavian Airlines Group (SAS) subsidiaries, and spent the last seven years  as a member of senior management.

In his most recent role, Dick was VP Production Assurance & Aircraft Management responsible for overall cost effective production of the flying programme. Prior to this, he was the VP Production Planning and Control, where he led overall production management of crew and aircraft across 4 newly formed SAS group airlines. He was previously the CFO of SAS Commuter and progressed through SAS group in roles ranging from controlling, route management, network, scheduling and traffic planning. 

Dick's experience across multiple disciplines and through managing entire business units, as well as the integration of SAS Commuter into the mainline airline, provides a rare holistic base of experience across an airline.

Specialties

• Strategic Analysis/Planning
• Business Strategy Development
• Business intelligence and KPI establishment
• Network Planning and Optimisation
• Brand execution
• Operations Assurance
• Operations Optimisation
• Process Control & Optimisation

Recent Assignments

• Drove development of new internal process streamlining and measuring performance of contacts with major suppliers 
• Generated higher level of productivity by chartering creation of realistic schedule & aligning daily operations with long-term plan, resulting in significant increases in precision and problem resolution
• Delivered critical series of process improvements contributing to SAS Denmark being the most punctual airline in Europe over 4 years
• Developed the overall planning Organisation following the restructuring of SAS into multiple airlines
• Established inter-company wet lease contracts between SAS and the subsidiaries
• Led the new type introduction project for the Q400: SAS Commuter was launch customer
• Chartered first centralisation of critical functions at SAS
• Implemented cross functional mind-set as head of Network Scheduling for the whole of SAS
• Designed the new cross functional Traffic Planning Process for the whole SAS
• Led implementation of Saab 2000 on domestic Swedish routes

Languages

• Swedish - Fluent
• English - Fluent
• Danish - Fluent
• Norwegian - Fluent
• Finnish - Basic
• German - Basic