Ali Kassir

Ali has over 15 years of technical experience in Amadeus Reservation (PSS) and Inventory Distribution Systems. He started his aviation career in 2007 with Middle East Airlines (MEA), where he gained extensive experience publishing flights, building seat maps, defining business rules, managing codeshares, and developing business processes and flows in their commercial department.

In addition, Ali is a certified data protection officer and practitioner where he led MEA’s privacy program to ensure its efficacy and compliance with privacy regulations, specifically GDPR. Ali’s passion to develop effective training programs to commercial staff, led him to obtain a PhD in Managerial Sciences from Angers university, France, Faculty of Transport/Tourism where he published many articles on various aviation gaps such as Ancillary Revenue and GDPR in the airline industry.