Aviation PR expert, Kevin Johnston has been appointed Senior Counsel at global comms firm, Cicero H/Advisors.
Johnston is widely admired in the aviation industry as an authority on crisis communications and strategic corporate and media relations. His expertise is also highly regarded by national and international journalists reporting on aviation.
He has managed United Airlines’ EMEAI media relations for more than 25 years, as well as communications for the Asia Pacific region more recently, and continues his association with the airline. He currently advises the world’s largest airline alliance, Star Alliance, on corporate communications.
He was a member of the United Airlines team that handled the media relations response in the wake of the 9/11 attack and has managed numerous industry issues and crisis during his career.
In addition to many other aviation accidents and incidents, his work with organisations as a strategic adviser, speaker and trainer stretches across the globe most notably in Europe and the Middle East.
Johnston managed media relations for the British Airports Authority during the Heathrow Terminal 5 Public Inquiry. The inquiry lasted five years – the longest planning inquiry in UK history. It found in favour of Heathrow and Terminal 5 was built. He is the longest serving crisis comms director at Kenyon International Emergency Services, the world’s premier disaster response company with a 120 year track record of response to mass fatality incidents.
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