Andy Shankland

Andy is a Managing Director at Plane View Partners. Mr. Shankland has held senior management positions at Airbus, including Senior Vice President Leasing Markets, Vice President Marketing and also Head of Sales and Marketing in North America. During this career, Mr. Shankland also had the opportunity to work on the commercial launch phases of a number of Airbus aircraft, including the A320neo, A330neo, A350XWB and A380.

From 2011 to 2015, Mr. Shankland was Senior Vice President Leasing Markets for Airbus. In this role, he was in charge of all Commercial activity with world-wide lessors. Prior to this, he was Vice President Marketing for Airbus, where his responsibilities included managing the development and implementation of all customer and product marketing activities for the complete range of Airbus commercial products world-wide, including during the launch of the A320neo Family. From 2002 to 2008, Mr. Shankland had a variety of management roles at Airbus North America, including Head of Sales and Marketing, Vice President of Sales and Business Development. Between 1994 and 2001, Mr. Shankland worked for Airbus North America in a number of marketing roles and prior to that, as Senior Airline Analyst in the Marketing Division for Airbus Industrie. Prior to joining Airbus, Andy spent five years with British Aerospace (BAe).

 Andy graduated in 1983 with a BSc (Eng) in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College of Science and Technology, in London, England.